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Craig Saila on the TechTO stage

Craig Saila

Product design leader, RBC Direct Investing

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Craig Saila is a Toronto digital design leader who now works on RBC Direct Investing's investing platform. He was CBC's director of digital products and then head of experience design, running the group behind the public broadcaster's news, audio and streaming products, and spent a decade before that at The Globe and Mail.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2020. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Craig

In their words

At the CBC one of the things that we really try to focus on is trying to tell the stories to all Canadians — reach out to every single Canadian, every single person may not care about the CBC, may love the CBC, and try to represent their needs.

TechTO Product, Mar 2020 · watch at 02:49

Understand what's motivating you as a designer or a developer or a product manager or a salesperson. We've all got that same goal, to be successful — we just define how success is expressed in different ways.

TechTO Product, Mar 2020 · watch at 11:42
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Quick answers

Who is Craig Saila?

A Toronto product design leader. He works with the team behind RBC Direct Investing, and before that led experience design and digital products at CBC, following ten years at The Globe and Mail building its digital design, mobile products and subscription program.

What did he speak about at TechTO?

He was on the March 2020 TechTO Product panel about managing teams you are not the manager of. He was then leading about 14 audience-facing product managers and a design team at CBC, and talked about earning stakeholder trust by showing the reasoning behind a priority call.

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