Product Designer, Principal Associate

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

Product Designer, Principal Associate at Capital One, focusing on creating memorable and meaningful product experiences that build the brand, drive business advantage, and foster innovation. The role involves leveraging expertise in interaction, visual, and service design, championing human-centered approaches, understanding business strategy, and collaborating with cross-functional partners. It requires problem-solving using an understanding of tech and data capabilities, and strong communication skills. Experience in regulated, data-heavy problem spaces is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leverage deep expertise in product design and skills across interaction, visual and service design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, use appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and work with teams to create artifacts that may include journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes
  2. Champion the customer through the design process, leveraging critical-thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability, tech constraints and feedback
  3. Understand and apply business and customer strategy, facilitate design process activities with team and partners, negotiating customer needs and business goals for harmonious outcomes
  4. Actively build an understanding of the potential of tech and data capabilities and emerging technologies and use this knowledge to inform work, identify new opportunities and help your team navigate technical limitations
  5. Foster relationships with partners and continuously expand your network, listening to diverse points of view and collaborating with an informed perspective to influence outcomes, break down silos and gain alignment
  6. Present work to audiences across levels and job functions using a human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to effectively articulate insights and design decisions

Skills

Required

  • Product Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Visual Design
  • Service Design
  • Figma
  • Design Systems

Nice to have

  • Customer Experience
  • Business Strategy
  • Data Analysis
  • Research Insights
  • Scalability
  • Technical Constraints
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces