Senior Associate, Talent Brand Strategist - Talent Marketing

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Richmond, VA

This role is for a Senior Associate, Talent Brand Strategist within the Talent Marketing team at Capital One. The primary focus is on shaping the candidate experience and translating the employee value proposition into a compelling narrative to attract top talent. Responsibilities include supporting the build and execution of brand strategies, designing data-driven strategies, facilitating creative processes, reviewing content, gathering testimonials, monitoring the talent brand landscape, and supporting daily team operations. The role requires strong collaboration, strategic thinking, communication, and adaptability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assist in drafting creative briefs by gathering necessary data, audience insights, and intake details to ensure the creative team has what they need to start.
  2. Facilitate the creative review process by organizing feedback, scheduling syncs between partners, and ensuring the next steps are clearly documented.
  3. Review draft content against our Brand Guidelines and EVP checklists to ensure consistency before work moves to final approval.
  4. Support the "source of truth" by verifying facts, gathering employee testimonials, and ensuring all talent captures (stills/video) are organized and accessible.
  5. Monitor the talent brand landscape to identify emerging social trends, competitor tactics, and industry benchmarks, providing the team with actionable insights to keep our content competitive.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or military experience
  • At least 3 years of experience in brand, marketing, OR communications
  • At least 3 years of experience in content and creative development

Nice to have

  • At least 4 years of experience with developing content and communications for consumer OR candidate audiences across multiple touchpoints
  • Experience working closely with agencies or internal creative teams
  • Experience working for a large, highly matrixed or Fortune 500 company
  • Experience working on an employer brand, recruitment marketing, or talent acquisition team
  • Project management experience, ability to manage details without losing sight of the broader picture
  • Understanding of how to connect research and marketing data to influence deliverables (messaging, creative, content development)
  • Passion for marketing and branding and keeping up with the latest in the media and digital branding space
  • Ability to pivot quickly between tasks and adapt to shifting priorities and deadlines