2025 Summer Student - Visual Designer (4 months)

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 visual 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 can instinctively weave iconography, typography, colour, space, and texture together to simplify and improve how our customers navigate our products and services. Youll use your skills to create designs that inspire, engage, and excite.

What will you do?

• Employ user-centered design principles and techniques to optimize the client experience for new and existing RBC products and features
• Create complex low-fidelity sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to explore, communicate, and validate ideas.
• Create complex prototypes to provide delivery specifications for development
• Evaluate visual designs for accessibility, inclusivity and provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams
• 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
• Solid knowledge of design tools (Adobe Photoshop and/or Sketch, Illustrator, and presentation software) and principles (typography, grid systems, visual hierarchy, colour, white space, etc.)
• 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