Job Abstract

Senior Manager, Product Management – Finance Product & Data Solutions: Finance ERP Modernization

Senior Manager, Product Management – Finance Product & Data Solutions: Finance ERP Modernization

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.

Capital One is modernizing its core financial system, which impacts more than 30,000 users and enables fundamental business-critical capabilities across the enterprise including regulatory, investor, and management reporting. This role is integral to delivering modern technology, reimagined business processes, and data standardization which means you will be a key part of a team that will impact a significant user base and the enterprise at-large.

We are looking for a leader that is excited about driving transformation for Capital One's business and technology. In this role, you will partner with architects, designers, software engineers, process and accounting specialists to elevate human-centered design and build scalable, resilient and efficient services. You will play a critical role in enhancing Capital One's ability to make timely and informed business decisions by redesigning how our financial data is produced and consumed. You will both lead and partner with teams that are redesigning and delivering resilient target-state architecture, designing and building a data abstraction layer to introduce simplicity and scalability to an otherwise complex data ecosystem, and enabling a SaaS environment with robust security performance.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Partner with Design to create data consumer personas that adequately represent a broad set (~ 60+) of financial data consumer applications

• Guide and orchestrate cross functional teams to identify downstream consumer pain points, data requirements, and critical business needs and dependencies to inform a reimagined finance core data publishing product agenda

• Deeply invest in relationships building a detailed understanding of all downstream consumers

• Partner with data architects, data modelers, and data analysts to adopt and promote data standardization principles that will guide and govern all modernized financial data

• Aided by deep consumer insights, partner with Technology to architect, design, build and deploy a new data integration layer leveraging cloud native, open source technologies to publish and enable downstream consumption of critical financial data originating from a new Financial Core application

• Develop and Execute the integrated strategy and roadmap that will enable 60+ downstream consumers to consume modern finance data and migrate from legacy to modern data patterns while maintaining impeccable accuracy of financial results

• Own, manage and optimize the adoption of new Financial data across 60+ consumers, catering to the uniqueness and nuances that exists for each consumer

• Formulate a destination back viewpoint and sequence a product roadmap that navigates near-term constraints while building in service of future state 

• Provide Product Management accountability for 2+ Software Engineering teams

• Provide Product Management accountability for 2+ cross functional (i.e. product, business, data) workgroups

•  Develop and professionally grow via differentiated People leadership a team of 3+ Product owners supporting both the SW engineering teams and cross functional workgroups

• Leverage strong communication skills to effectively influence the entire financial value chain 

In this role, you’ll be expected to demonstrate proficiency in four key areas

• Human Centered 

  • You’ll define clear and actionable problem statements to help teams deliver results while displaying a comprehensive understanding of iterative software delivery, capable of thin-slice MVP grooming

  • You’ll leverage customer insights to influence priorities and roadmap feature development while advocating for and driving alignment between stakeholders in the development of acceptance criteria

  • You’ll obsess over UX/UI patterns and seek to create world class, omni-channel experiences

• Business Focused 

  • You’ll own and prioritize the near-term product roadmap to deliver on business outcomes, quickly identifying points of leverage in complex problems or systems, and utilizing data effectively to define success metrics and measurable outcomes

  • You’ll utilize balanced judgment in decisions about risks of both actions taken and not taken while innovating on ways to iterate faster in a well-managed way for the immediate team

• Technology Driven

  • You’ll understand and leverage technology and end-state architecture vision to partner with technology team to drive comprehensive design decisions out of white space technical problems

  • You’ll share business strategy and roadmap with Tech partners to establish context while also leading and facilitating agile ceremonies alongside Tech Lead

  • You’ll deliver value by creating reusable, extensible and resilient capabilities and proactively identify opportunities when key metrics on security, resilience and performance are not performing

• Transformational Leadership 

  • You’ll develop and communicate a 6-month vision to senior stakeholders and partner teams with accurate details and transparency on risks and impediments, and proactively build relationships with those outside of your immediate team resulting in horizontal influence 

  • You’ll Contribute to team culture and recruiting by leading activities to attract and retain top talent and mentoring and developing junior product associates

We want you if you are:

• Intellectually Curious. You ask why, you explore, you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea or follow an email chain for weeks to find someone with an answer. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.

• Communicator & Influencer. You can communicate complex ideas clearly regardless of your audience. Our team knows their priorities and why they’re doing what they’re doing. You always can rally associates to work with you.

• Do-er.You’re biased toward action, you try things and sometimes you fail. You can get around roadblocks and stay focused on your goals. You’re well organized, able to multitask and able to prioritize your work.

• Passionate & Customer Focus.You care about growing others and bringing them together around what’s possible. You get a thrill from the journey of building and shipping products, and you have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs.

• Learner.You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when the time comes to ask for help.

• Team Player. You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You have the ability to put the team before yourself and establish long-lasting relationships.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience

• At least 3 years of product management experience or at least 3 years of experience in product design, agile delivery, business analysis, data science, or software engineering  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

• MBA or Master’s degree

• 2+ years of experience in Agile product management

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new 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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