2026 Winter Student - Interaction Designer (4 months)
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
Please note: This posting is for a 4-monthWinter 2026 placement with a start date of January 2026 and end-date of April 2026.
In order to be eligible for this 4-month Student position, you must either:
- Be returning back to school after the work term end-date of April 2026; or
- If you are not returning back to school (i.e. are graduating in April/August 2026), but you require the work term as a mandatory component to in order to graduate successfully.
Please ensure that you meet these eligibility requirementsbefore applying - candidates who apply but are found to be ineligible are not able to be considered.
What is the opportunity?
On the RBC Digital Design team, we encourage designers at all stages to continuously learn and grow. We put strategy, research, design principles, and technical innovation at the center of everything we do. We are a leader when it comes to exceptional digital experiences in the financial space and our focus on our users is an integral part of this success. As an intern student on our team, you will be immersed in an environment that fosters creativity and a learning mindset.
Our interaction designers help to communicate our design intent in a way that delights yet informs our users to create intuitive interfaces. As a member of our team, you’ll work within an agile environment and iterative process, collaborating with interdisciplinary team members and stakeholders to analyze, design and convey your design vision. A natural problem solver, communicator, and facilitator, you’ll be involved in every step of the process from idea generation to implementation.
What will you do?
- Employ user-centered design principles and techniques to optimize the client experience for new and existing RBC products and features
- Design artifacts of high complexity to communicate task flows, touchpoints, behaviors, and the exchange of information
- Create complex low-fidelity sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to explore, communicate, and validate ideas.
- Create complex prototypes to provide delivery specifications for development
- Participate in usability testing and research activities
- Collaborate with your core design team, project managers, developers, and business stakeholders
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Enrollment in a post-secondary institution (university or college) in a degree program related to design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science (CS), or a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Exposure to designing usable interfaces across multiple channels and platforms
- Exposure to applied research settings including experience integrating user research into product designs and design practices
- Ability to articulate design strategy, rational and logic; describing benefits and highlighting risks associated with design decision
- Portfolio that includes case studies where you walk through the problem you were solving and the process you used to come to a solution
Please share links to your portfolio/examples of your work on your resume
What's in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- 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
Job Skills
Communication, Computer Literacy, Detail-Oriented, Interpersonal Relationships, Listening Effectively, Personal Development, Personal Initiative
Additional Job Details
Address:
RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO
City:
Toronto
Country:
Canada
Work hours/week:
37.5
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKING
Job Type:
Student/Coop (Fixed Term)
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2025-09-15
Application Deadline:
2025-09-23
**** Note:**** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.
2026 Winter Student - Interaction Designer (4 months)
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
Please note: This posting is for a 4-monthWinter 2026 placement with a start date of January 2026 and end-date of April 2026.
In order to be eligible for this 4-month Student position, you must either:
- Be returning back to school after the work term end-date of April 2026; or
- If you are not returning back to school (i.e. are graduating in April/August 2026), but you require the work term as a mandatory component to in order to graduate successfully.
Please ensure that you meet these eligibility requirementsbefore applying - candidates who apply but are found to be ineligible are not able to be considered.
What is the opportunity?
On the RBC Digital Design team, we encourage designers at all stages to continuously learn and grow. We put strategy, research, design principles, and technical innovation at the center of everything we do. We are a leader when it comes to exceptional digital experiences in the financial space and our focus on our users is an integral part of this success. As an intern student on our team, you will be immersed in an environment that fosters creativity and a learning mindset.
Our interaction designers help to communicate our design intent in a way that delights yet informs our users to create intuitive interfaces. As a member of our team, you’ll work within an agile environment and iterative process, collaborating with interdisciplinary team members and stakeholders to analyze, design and convey your design vision. A natural problem solver, communicator, and facilitator, you’ll be involved in every step of the process from idea generation to implementation.
What will you do?
- Employ user-centered design principles and techniques to optimize the client experience for new and existing RBC products and features
- Design artifacts of high complexity to communicate task flows, touchpoints, behaviors, and the exchange of information
- Create complex low-fidelity sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to explore, communicate, and validate ideas.
- Create complex prototypes to provide delivery specifications for development
- Participate in usability testing and research activities
- Collaborate with your core design team, project managers, developers, and business stakeholders
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Enrollment in a post-secondary institution (university or college) in a degree program related to design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science (CS), or a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Exposure to designing usable interfaces across multiple channels and platforms
- Exposure to applied research settings including experience integrating user research into product designs and design practices
- Ability to articulate design strategy, rational and logic; describing benefits and highlighting risks associated with design decision
- Portfolio that includes case studies where you walk through the problem you were solving and the process you used to come to a solution
Please share links to your portfolio/examples of your work on your resume
What's in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- 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
Job Skills
Communication, Computer Literacy, Detail-Oriented, Interpersonal Relationships, Listening Effectively, Personal Development, Personal Initiative
Additional Job Details
Address:
RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO
City:
Toronto
Country:
Canada
Work hours/week:
37.5
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKING
Job Type:
Student/Coop (Fixed Term)
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2025-09-15
Application Deadline:
2025-09-23
**** Note:**** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.