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About the Role

The Innovation Portfolio Lead will manage and advance the Innovation Foundry’s portfolio of ideas, experiments, and emerging solutions. This role will establish the structure and discipline to move ideas from concept through validation, incubation, and to a clear decision point. Sitting at the intersection of business, technology, and innovation, the Portfolio Lead will collaborate with idea originators, Foundry teams, subject matter experts, and senior stakeholders to ensure strategic investment in high-potential opportunities.

Responsibilities

Maintain visibility into the Foundry's initiative pipeline, including maturity, investment, dependencies, risks, and expected business value.
Establish clear pathways for initiatives from intake and evaluation through experimentation, validation, incubation, and scale, ensuring defined outcomes and decision points.
Assess opportunities based on strategic alignment, client or business value, feasibility, differentiation, and potential to scale in partnership with business and technology leaders.
Define lightweight stage gates, success measures, investment criteria, and governance to enable rapid progression and deliberate investment decisions.
Support employees with ideas by connecting them with necessary expertise, resources, sponsors, and partners.

Requirements

7+ years of experience leading innovation portfolios, product portfolios, venture building, product strategy, or similar initiatives within a complex organization.
Strong understanding of innovation and product lifecycle, from discovery and validation through experimentation, incubation, product development, and scale.
Ability to evaluate competing opportunities, balance strategic value against feasibility and investment, and recommend actions (accelerate, pivot, pause, or stop).
Experience defining hypotheses, success measures, investment requirements, expected business outcomes, and evidence for continued investment.
Working knowledge of AI, data, digital products, fintech, and emerging technology trends, with the ability to engage credibly with technical and business teams.
Ability to influence senior leaders, constructively challenge assumptions, synthesize complex information, and communicate clear recommendations and portfolio narratives.
Ability to bring clarity and momentum to early-stage opportunities with undefined problems, solutions, ownership, or paths to value.
Experience working across business, product, technology, and cross-functional teams to move initiatives from concept toward execution.
Experience within financial services, capital markets, fintech, or another highly regulated industry (Nice-to-Have).
Experience with AI, alternative data, data products, or technology-enabled business models (Nice-to-Have).
Exposure to venture studios, accelerators, corporate innovation programs, product incubation, or internal venture building (Nice-to-Have).
Experience developing commercialization strategies, go-to-market plans, or transitioning incubated products into scaled business or technology teams (Nice-to-Have).
Experience working directly with founders, entrepreneurs, or employee-led innovation programs (Nice-to-Have).

Skills

Adaptability
Budgeting
Business Oriented
Decision Making
Innovation
Innovation Management
Long Term Planning
Program Management
Resource Management
Results-Oriented
Team Management
Time Management

Location

BROOKFIELD PLACE FKA 3 WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER, 200 VESEY STREET:NEW YORK
New York
United States of America

Work Type

Full time
Salaried

Salary/Compensations

$135,000 - $225,000

Benefits

Discretionary bonus
401(K) program with company-matching contributions
Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance
Paid Time-Off Plan

About the Company

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC.
We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world.
Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities.
RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.