Senior Manager, Product Designer

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

Seeking a Senior Manager, Product Designer to lead emerging spaces within Global Enterprise Affairs, focusing on problem-solving, innovation pathways, and creating solutions for associates. The role involves combining craft expertise with people leadership to drive product strategy and foster a high-performing design team, advocating for human-centered methodologies and business-focused approaches.

What you'd actually do

  1. You’ll be leading two emerging spaces within the Global Enterprise Affairs organization: the Accelerator and the Enablement and Innovation teams.
  2. As engagements come to us, we focus on easing pathways for innovation across the enterprise for both new acquisitions and seasoned teams on the cutting edge of change.
  3. Similarly, the Enablement and Innovation team works specifically within the Global Enterprise Affairs team, and works to create solutions for a diverse group of Capital one associates.
  4. 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
  5. 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

Skills

Required

  • 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

Nice to have

  • At least 8 years of experience in a Product Design role
  • At least 8 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 leaders
  • Experience leading design projects or teams
  • Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces

What the JD emphasized

  • passion for solving tough challenges
  • human-centered design methods
  • innovator
  • experiment
  • learn
  • change banking for good
  • enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences
  • creating memorable, meaningful product experiences
  • build the Capital One brand with humanity
  • drive business advantage and innovation
  • thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique
  • honor diversity of thought
  • create a culture of belonging
  • elevate one another
  • creative innovator
  • experiment
  • learn
  • change banking for good
  • craft expertise
  • people leadership skills
  • understanding of our customers and the business
  • co-create innovative solutions to complex problems
  • drive product strategy
  • create a thriving team culture of high performing designers
  • established expertise in product design
  • interaction, visual and service design
  • cross-functional partners
  • optimize the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems
  • develop artifacts that may include vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes
  • Reinforce a positive and inclusive team environment
  • set goals aligned to broader portfolio strategy
  • manage stakeholders
  • remove barriers
  • train and develop designers
  • empowered to reach their potential
  • enabled to help the business to achieve its goals
  • shape product direction and outcomes
  • leveraging deep design expertise, user insights, and an understanding of the business
  • drive alignment across product, tech, and business partners
  • user needs are central to our overall strategy
  • enabling bold, innovative solutions to complex problems
  • Advocate for human-centered methodologies
  • align customer needs and business goals
  • applying data, research insights, design expertise and a mature perspective to problem-solving across the portfolio
  • Demonstrate strong knowledge of products, processes, customers, competitors and broader market trends
  • shape how Design should engage
  • actively managing the portfolio, pivoting, redirecting and broadening and narrowing scope, as needed
  • Own the problem-solving approach (issue, impact, resolution)
  • apply good judgment when exploring alternatives and balancing competing interests or priorities
  • leveraging leadership for input and alignment
  • Bring exceptional creativity to exploring a solution space
  • Engage partner expertise and perspectives from across the organization
  • support workstream projects
  • identify the people needed to move the work forward
  • embracing compromise to solve strategic challenges and deliver the best results
  • Present work across levels and job functions
  • modeling a strategic human-centered approach
  • integrates design frameworks, data and research insights
  • make the complex accessible
  • influence stakeholders
  • achieve desired results
  • strong portfolio demonstrating your leadership, process, results and impact
  • Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces