Director, Business Strategy

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Toronto, ON

This role is for a Director of Business Strategy at Capital One Canada, focusing on driving growth, profitability, and customer success in credit and operations. It involves strategic leadership, technology and process ownership, and people leadership of cross-functional teams. While the company uses AI in recruitment, this role itself is not directly involved in building or deploying AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and customer success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory behavior.
  2. Have an ownership mindset, and strategic planning with a 6-24 month horizon.
  3. Manage and develop a cross functional team of analysts, process managers and product.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of leading analytical, process and product teams
  • 5+ years of leading a cross functional team of 8+ reports
  • 5+ years of experience working in an Agile environment

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
  • A deep understanding of product economics and PNL experience
  • High level of intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity
  • Can collaboratively drive teams and stakeholders with disparate goals
  • Able to present to executive management often and in a compelling manner on key KPIs and results

What the JD emphasized

  • proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics
  • ownership mindset
  • strategic planning with a 6-24 month horizon
  • drive a roadmap of continuous improvement
  • Coaching and mentoring associates throughout the organization
  • build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team
  • foster innovation
  • drive critical decisions
  • hold business partners accountable
  • consistently deliver results