# Lead Product Manager

**Company**: RBC
**Location**: Boston
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,000-$176,000 (Boston), $90,000-$160,000 (Minneapolis)
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Join RBC's Global Asset Management (GAM) team as a Lead Product Manager, focusing on equity strategies and investment vehicles. You will drive product innovation, development, and long-term growth strategy.

Responsibilities:

- Work with the Director of Product Innovation on end-to-end product lifecycle management of equity strategies

- Act as the firm's subject matter expert for US vehicle types, particularly in equities

- Identify, develop, and champion new equity investment product opportunities

- Collaborate with legal, compliance, operations, and other stakeholders to navigate the product approval process

- Prepare materials for and present to various funds boards, new product committees, and senior governance forums

- Develop go-to-market strategies for newly approved products

- Monitor the competitive landscape, regulatory environment, industry flow dynamics, and investor trends

- Produce competitive analysis packages and develop product-level business development plans

- Challenge the status quo on the existing equity product suite and make the case for rationalization where appropriate

- Act as a conduit of knowledge and information flow between investment desks and distribution/client-facing teams

- Support the IPM team in responding to RFPs

- Contribute to ongoing training sessions for the distribution team

- Work on projects to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency of service to clients

- Coordinate with other Product Managers and IPMs to build efficiencies into the process

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree

- 7+ years of relevant experience in the asset management industry

- Deep understanding of the competitive landscape within the equity asset class

- Detailed knowledge across all US vehicle types

- Experience working across multiple distribution channels

- Experience bringing new products to market

- Strong understanding of US fund regulation and the product approval process

- CFA/CAIA designations preferred

Benefits:

- Comprehensive Total Rewards Program with competitive compensation and flexible benefits

- 401(k) program with company-matching contributions

- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and paid-time off

- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

- Opportunities to do challenging work and build close relationships with clients

## Skills

### Required
- Business Case Design
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Effectiveness Measurement
- Financial Regulation
- Interpersonal Relationship Management
- Product Development Lifecycle
- Product Development Methodology
- Product Services
- Results-Oriented
- Waterfall Model

### Nice to have
- CFA
- CAIA
- Morningstar Direct
- eVestment
- Preqin
- Bloomberg

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