Job Abstract

Sr. Director, Product Management - Delivery Experience Product Management

Product Management 

Product Management at Capital One is a booming, vibrant craft that requires reimagining the status quo, finding value creation opportunities and driving innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology.

We believe our portfolio of businesses and investments in growth and transformation will result in a company with the scale, brand, capabilities, talent, and values to succeed as the digital revolution transforms our society and our industry.

Do you dream of well-designed and intuitive products and customer experiences? Do you want to be the one who introduces change to help tens of millions of customers make smarter financial choices? Do you want to change the way people manage their money?  If you answered yes to all of these questions, then product management at Capital One may be a fit for you

In this role, you will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in four key areas:

• Human Centered

  • You’ll deeply immerse yourself in knowing your internal and/or external customer(s) needs to reimagine and innovate product solutions

  • You’ll be challenged to discover customer needs and inspire innovative solutions or products in light of industry trends, emerging technologies and business and customers insights

• Business Focused 

  • You’ll be the leader to develop a compelling portfolio or product vision for our organization to deliver capabilities that empower differentiated customer experiences and deliver breakthrough business value

  • You’ll lead a team that translates vision into strategic product roadmaps with an agile delivery approach in partnership with Tech while managing cyber, operational and/or regulatory risks

• Technology Driven

  • You’ll partner with Technology leaders to influence end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant and scalable technology solutions that solve material customer and business problems

  • You’ll be responsible to make technology investments decision by assessing opportunities for reusing Enterprise solutions or for and building new ones with extensibility & enterprise scalability in mind

• Transformational Leadership

  • You’ll influence a broad set of senior executives across the enterprise and your organization who are stakeholders or delivery partner to successfully deliver on your portfolio/product vision

  • You’ll establish a long-term product portfolio strategy, informed by customer and business needs, to gain alignment, secure resources and overcome impediments

  • You’ll attract, grow, empower, and inspire top product talent as they develop and deliver on their local product strategy 

Capital One is a high-tech company, a scientific laboratory, and a nationally recognized brand all in one reaching tens of millions of consumers. We are a passionate and entrepreneurial team embracing bold ideas, fostering collaboration and delivering great experiences for our customers. Delivery Experience (DE) is at the heart of our approach. Delivery Experience delivers enterprise capabilities and a common developer experience enabling Capital One to thrive in the cloud. To scale our efforts in this space, we are building a world class CI/CD platform for deploying applications to the cloud that run critical business functions like mobile and online experiences for Capital One customers. This CI/CD platform is the common developer experience for the 1,800 software development teams at Capital One that enables us to continue thriving in the cloud in a safe and well-managed way by standardizing best practices and automating compliance and security requirements. This work is core to Capital One’s mission, changing banking for good! 

As a Product Manager on the Enterprise Platforms Tech (EPTech) Product team, you will be part of the EPTech, Delivery Experience team designing and delivering best-in-class managed compute solutions that improve the quality of life of our software delivery teams while maintaining the highest quality and security standards. You will work with stakeholders at every level to identify pain points for software development teams throughout the software delivery life cycle. This team is focused on building a software delivery platform that is intuitive, reliable, automated, secure, adaptable, and fast. We’re passionate about building platform software for the next generation of developers at Capital One and are looking for someone excited to build managed compute solutions at scale. 

This role advocates for the needs of the customer to inform the platform roadmap ensuring the capabilities being delivered are aligned with the intended business outcomes. You will be responsible for feature definition and partnering with tech teams to deliver platform features. The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about technology and deeply empathizes with internal and external customer needs. They are comfortable in conversation with engineering teams as well as stakeholders ranging from data scientists to senior leaders. 

Successful candidates will also demonstrate:

• Technical knowledge and depth necessary to propose and influence new product and feature ideas, especially in the space of web APIs and their role in connecting the dots for a large enterprise

• Experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products

• Knowledge on AWS Cloud Development Kit

• Experience with AWS specializing in CI/CD and DevOps expertise

• Work with key stakeholders within the organization to understand dependencies and prioritize the customers needs 

• Prepare strategic roadmaps and communicate it to Leadership and other stakeholders

• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment

• Analytical and quantitative skills; experience using hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior executives

• Strong work ethic as team player and a willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done

Responsibilities:

• Engaging all stakeholders (Engineers, SDLC, Architecture, Risk, and Cyber) directly through a variety of channels to serve as the voice of the customer internally - identifying new capabilities, defining product features, and working closely with development teams to get those features incorporated

• Interaction with Engineers and understand the technical language to articulate the requirements

• Drive the product management practice within the organization, defining expectations and commitments

• Operationalizing product metrics for the products you own and building the business case for new investment

• Influencing senior stakeholders to use our products and sharing with them the outcomes we are enabling to strengthen investment

We want you if you are:

• Intellectually Curious. You’re comfortable navigating between the big ideas and executional realities to create an achievable strategic product vision. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.

• Communicator & Influencer.You’re comfortable influencing a group of executives as well as communicating your product vision clearly to your associates and partners. You can be open to different communication styles and listen carefully to diverse sets of ideas.

• Do-er.You’re biased toward action, and are willing to make commitments and trade-offs with other leaders to remove impediments for your team; you are a leader obsessed with delivering valuable in an iterative way focusing in minimum viable product

• Passionate & Customer Focus. You care about growing others and bringing them together around what’s possible. You have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs and build long lasting relationships.

• Learner.You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when exploring unknown technologies; you will seek for internal solutions before building new

• Team Player.You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You are also able to coach others and be a mentor in product development.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 8 years of experience in digital product management 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

• MBA or Master’s degree

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification

• 8+ years of experience in Agile product management

• 8+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital 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 committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. 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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