Manager, Product Design

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Plano, TX

Product Design Manager role at Capital One, focusing on creating meaningful digital and physical customer experiences. The role involves leading design projects, mentoring junior designers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and influencing product strategy. Requires expertise in product design, leadership, human-centered design, business acumen, problem-solving, and communication. Experience with design tools like Figma and working in regulated, data-heavy environments is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead design projects, directing and delegating work for more junior team members and building strong partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders while also mentoring and helping to mature the overall product design practice at Capital One
  2. Demonstrate a high degree of skill in product design, leveraging a variety of skills across interaction, visual and service design; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, inform the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and creates artifacts that may include journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes
  3. Effectively navigate the needs of partners and stakeholders, leveraging critical-thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability and tech constraints, while ensuring the team focuses on customer-centered solutions and inclusive design
  4. Demonstrate proficiency with products and processes and apply relevant insights on customers, competitors and broader market trends to business challenges that shape a shared point of view for your team, partners and stakeholders
  5. Demonstrate a solid understanding of tech, data capabilities and emerging technologies and use this knowledge to inform your work and help your cross-functional team move faster and navigate technical limitations in service of the impactful solutions

Skills

Required

  • Product Design
  • design and prototyping tools such as Figma

Nice to have

  • Product Design
  • design and prototyping tools such as Figma
  • working with and contributing to an established design system
  • collaborating with product, tech and business partners
  • leading design projects or teams
  • working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces