Product Design Manager

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA +1

Product Design Manager role at Capital One focused on creating customer experiences and driving business advantage through design innovation. The role involves leading design projects, mentoring junior designers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in a regulated, data-heavy environment. Requires expertise in product design, leadership, human-centered design, and business acumen.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. 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
  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
  • Interaction Design
  • Visual Design
  • Service Design
  • Figma
  • design systems
  • customer-centered solutions
  • inclusive design
  • tech, data capabilities
  • emerging technologies

Nice to have

  • design and prototyping tools such as Figma
  • established design system
  • product, tech and business partners
  • leading design projects or teams

What the JD emphasized

  • Product Design Expertise
  • Leadership
  • Human-Centered
  • Business-Focused
  • Problem-Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces