Senior Manager, Product Design

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

Senior Manager, Product Design role at Capital One focused on the Money Management team within the Experience Design organization. The role involves leading designers, shaping product strategy, and ensuring human-centered design principles are applied. Requires expertise in product design, leadership, strategic thinking, and collaboration with cross-functional partners. The position emphasizes creating innovative solutions to complex problems and driving business advantage through design.

What you'd actually do

  1. Combine your craft expertise and people leadership skills with an understanding of our customers and the business to co-create innovative solutions to complex problems, drive product strategy and create a thriving team culture of high performing designers.
  2. Demonstrate established expertise in product design, leveraging a variety of skills across interaction, visual and service design; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, help to oversee and optimize the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and work with your team to develop artifacts that may include vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes
  3. Reinforce a positive and inclusive team environment, set goals aligned to broader portfolio strategy, manage stakeholders, remove barriers and train and develop designers who are empowered to reach their potential and enabled to help the business to achieve its goals
  4. You'll shape product direction and outcomes by leveraging deep design expertise, user insights, and business understanding. You'll drive alignment across product, tech, and business partners, ensuring user needs are central to our overall strategy and enabling bold, innovative solutions to complex problems.
  5. Advocate for human-centered methodologies that align customer needs and business goals by applying data, research insights, design expertise and a mature perspective to problem-solving across the portfolio

Skills

Required

  • Product Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Visual Design
  • Service Design
  • Figma
  • Prototyping
  • People Leadership
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Human-Centered Design
  • Data Analysis
  • Research Insights
  • Problem-Solving
  • Collaboration

Nice to have

  • Design Systems
  • Product Strategy
  • Team Culture Development
  • Business Acumen
  • Market Trends Analysis
  • Emerging Technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 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
  • At least 2 years of experience in a people leadership role