Lead product designer

Lead Product Designer

We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our Enterprise Data team in the Experience Design org. You’ll lead design strategy and execution for data-intensive tools and workflows, shaping clarity in complex systems and defining new product spaces (0 1).

In this role, you’ll

• Partner with Product and Engineering to design technical UX for financial services, data tooling, and process management platforms.

• Translate ambiguous problems into actionable design solutions around GraphQL, APIs, data workflows, and task management

• Deliver production-ready assets and partner through QA to ensure design quality.

• Use and extend our design system in Figma.

• Apply user research and usability testing to refine solutions.

• Present work with strong storytelling and clear design rationale.

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 a Senior Manager Product Designer, you’ll combine your craft expertise, influence & strategic thinking with an understanding of our customers and the business. You’ll co-create innovative solutions to complex problems, drive product strategy and contribute to a thriving team culture of high performing designers.

Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:

Product Design Expertise: Leverage established product design expertise and skills across interaction, visual and service design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, help to oversee and optimize the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and work with teams to develop artifacts that may include vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes

Mentorship: Advance the craft of design at Capital One by leading, mentoring and consulting with others, providing expertise that matures the design discipline, builds our culture and enables work to move forward efficiently

Strategic Influence: You'll shape product direction and outcomes by leveraging deep content design expertise, user insights, and an understanding of the business. 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.

Human-Centered: 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

Business-Focused: Demonstrate strong knowledge of products, processes, customers, competitors and broader market trends and use that knowledge to shape how Design should engage (i.e., actively managing the portfolio, pivoting, redirecting and broadening and narrowing scope, as needed)

Problem-Solving: Own the problem-solving approach (issue, impact, resolution) and 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.

Collaboration: Engage partner expertise and perspectives from across the organization to support workstream projects and identify the people needed to move the work forward, embracing compromise to solve strategic challenges and deliver the best results

Communication: Present work across levels and job functions, modeling a strategic human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to make the complex accessible, influence stakeholders and achieve desired results

The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating your leadership, process, results and impact.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of UX design experience with a strong focus on technical and data-heavy products

• Expertise in workflow and systems design for enterprise-level or financial services contexts

• Familiarity with API-driven product design (GraphQL experience strongly preferred)

• Advanced use of Figma for wireframing, prototyping, design systems, and collaboration

• Proven ability to work in ambiguous, undefined environments and bring clarity through design

• Strong portfolio demonstrating complex workflow design, technical UX, and zero to one, product development

• Experience with data visualization

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management 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: $193,000 - $220,300 for Sr. Manager, Design

New York, NY: $210,500 - $240,300 for Sr. Manager, Design

Richmond, VA: $175,500 - $200,300 for Sr. Manager, Design

San Francisco, CA: $210,500 - $240,300 for Sr. Manager, 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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