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Senior Director Product Design, Card Platforms and Data team.

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Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
270K-336K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
270K-336K Annually
Senior level
Lead the Card Platforms and Data team, overseeing product design, collaborating with stakeholders, and driving design excellence and business outcomes. Advocate for high-leverage opportunities, foster a community of designers, and manage cross-functional collaborations to enhance customer experiences.
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Senior Director Product Design, Card Platforms and Data team.
We're currently seeking a Product Design Senior Director to lead our Card Platforms and Data team.
The Card Platforms and Data team supports the associate facing platforms that power the card business. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity, and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you're an innovator and storyteller who embraces an environment where you can experiment and learn, we would love to hear from you.
The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers' digital and physical experiences and we are passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you're a creative innovator who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we'd love to hear from you.
Role Expectations
As Senior Director of Card Platforms and Data, you'll lead a talented, cross-disciplinary team of design leaders and designers, collaborate deeply with our research teams and Product and Tech leadership. You'll be responsible for identifying and advocating for high-leverage opportunities with executive stakeholders and leading high-impact, highly complex design projects that set the bar for and drive experience excellence and business outcomes.
In this role, you will partner with senior leaders across offers, decisioning, authorizations and customer management to ensure our associates can create card experiences customers and the business can love. You will bring simplicity and power to the associate journeys and innovate to be best in class.
Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:
Product Design Expertise: Leverage established expertise and leadership in product design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One. 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 enable your team to develop artifacts that may include vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes
Leadership: Build a thriving community of designers who are well supported, trained for excellence and able to collaborate with peers in multiple functions and set the vision and strategic direction for your team in close partnership with your cross-functional partners
Human-Centered: Recognize and pursue opportunities where customer needs and business goals coincide, while reinforcing with teammates and partners the importance of collecting and considering diverse customer perspectives throughout the design process
Business-Focused: Demonstrate a mastery of products, processes, customers, competitors and broader industry trends and apply this knowledge to predict shifts in these areas and shape how Design should engage, uncover and solve significant business challenges
Problem-Solving: Revels in the art of the possible, driving cross-functional groups in thinking creatively about potential solutions, illuminating potential pitfalls and fostering shared learnings; builds frameworks for complex decision-making that enable effective debate and accelerate getting to the right solutions
Collaboration: Connect the dots across the organization, proactively bringing together executive partners in ways that drive more coherent experiences, accelerate delivery and elevate the value of design
Communication: Present work to executive leaders and stakeholders, modeling a strategic human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to make the complex accessible, influence change and drive strategic direction
The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating your leadership, process, results and impact.
Basic Qualifications:
  • At least 10 years of experience in leading product design teams or delivering products to market
  • At least 3 years managing managers

Preferred Qualifications:
  • At least 12 years of experience in leading product design teams or delivering products to market
  • Experience in a design toolkit that spans product design, service design, design strategy or content design
  • Deep experience leading product design teams operating across UX and UI, strategy, content, and research from strategy through delivery to market
  • Deep experience partnering with product managers, engineers, marketing, and analytics leaders across multiple business lines to shape strategy, performance metrics, roadmaps, and operating models
  • Deep experience interfacing with executive leadership to solve problems, influence key decisions, and drive results across strategy, design, roadmaps and investments
  • Experience working within a design system
  • Proficiency with web and mobile technologies and platforms, navigating technology considerations and constraints to drive sound product and experience decisions
  • Expertise with design and prototyping tools such as Figma
  • Experience managing an interdisciplinary design team
  • Proficiency in business case development, grounding product and user experience decisions to business value
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills and relationship building across complex organizations
  • Exceptional people management and development skills

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
McLean, VA: $269,600 - $307,700 for Sr. Director, Design
New York, NY: $294,100 - $335,700 for Sr. Director, Design
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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