Product Design Manager

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA +2

Product Design Manager role at Capital One, focusing on creating meaningful product experiences. Responsibilities include leading design projects, mentoring junior designers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and influencing product strategy. Requires strong skills in interaction, visual, and service design, with experience in design and prototyping tools. Experience in regulated, data-heavy problem spaces is preferred.

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
  6. Leverage a rich network of partnerships across lines of business and the organization to foster collaboration and share solutions, incorporating cross-functional perspectives to bridge gaps in information and drive product strategy
  7. Present work across levels and job functions using a human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to articulate a compelling point of view that influences strategic decision-making and direction at senior levels

Skills

Required

  • At least 5 years of experience in a Product Design role
  • At least 5 years of experience in design and prototyping tools such as Figma

Nice to have

  • At least 6 years of experience in a Product Design role
  • At least 6 years of experience in design and prototyping tools such as Figma
  • Experience working with and contributing to an established design system
  • Experience collaborating with product, tech and business partners
  • Experience leading design projects or teams
  • Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces