Cyber Product Owner

Capital One; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 209,000 - 238,500; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a product owner to help deliver game-changing cybersecurity solutions based on threat, data, and design thinking. You will collaborate with engineering teams to translate security strategy into actionable user stories and clear acceptance criteria.

Based in Plano, TX, you’ll lead backlog refinement, pair with Product Manager and Solution Architects, and drive secure, resilient software delivery across multi-cloud environments while advancing key SAFe ceremonies and metrics.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• At least 6 years of experience cybersecurity/IT.
• At least 4 years in Cloud Security (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• At least 4 years in product management.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; multiple security certifications valued.
• 3+ years in scaled agile product management and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Communicate the delivery roadmap to technology teams via product vision.
• Articulate target persona, customer benefit, and feature value.
• Backlog refinement with cyber and customer focus; document epics and stories.
• Lead Agile/SAFe ceremonies and collaborate with Product Manager, Engineering, and Solution Architects.
• Drive data-driven insights to improve security, resilience, and performance.
• Support teams through impediments and escalate when needed.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Product management

Agile / SAFe

Cloud security

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Capital One is seeking a product owner to help deliver game-changing cybersecurity solutions based on threat, data, and design thinking. At Capital One, we believe in the values of Excellence and Doing the Right Thing. We are a technology-oriented company delivering financial products to market through modern technology and constant innovation at a massive scale. Part of that innovation is leveraging technology to deliver the best cybersecurity solutions for our business.

What you’ll do

• Communicate the delivery roadmap to our technology teams by inspiring the team through the product vision
• Clearly articulate and advocate target persona, customer benefit, and value of features across teams
• Leverage technical knowledge and skills on how systems work and how code is built to effectively support engineering teams in delivering value
• Utilize strong cybersecurity background and customer research and insights to represent the voice of the customer to the engineering team(s)
• Incorporate design thinking and analytics to inform product design
• Actively participate in research or design sessions for new features
• Contribute to the development of a healthy product backlog, collaborating with the Product Manager, Engineering, and Solution Architects to break down business epics, document user stories (to also include things like addressing technical debt, SRE, etc.), design details and comprehensive acceptance criteria
• Lead internal backlog refinement sessions to refine cyber and customer intent, prepare business epics and stories for technical breakdown and planning, and ensure requirements are well understood by the engineering teams
• Prioritize the Product Backlog to maximize business and customer outcomes by balancing technical and non-technical aspects while also incorporating cyber and operational risk reduction outcomes and activities
• Act as a technical advisor to the product manager, engineering, and other stakeholders
• Collaborate across multiple cross-functional teams and the Product Owner community and play a key role in key Agile and SAFe ceremonies
• Support teams through escalation and resolution of impediments
• Drive performance and innovation with data-driven insights
• Proactively identify opportunities when key metrics on security, resilience and performance for your product (s) are not performing
• Maintain technical and risk credibility with your own team(s) and with partners across our technology organization

About you

• You believe that a core component of security’s role is to enable the business, not just to secure it, and the solutions you bring to life are aligned to the needs of our developer community, customers, and business partners.
• You thrive in working in a fast-paced, technologically forward-leaning environment and are not afraid to push the boundaries of security capabilities.
• You seek to create enduring value by delivering reusable, extensible, and resilient cybersecurity capabilities to address the evolving threat landscape
• You actively solve cyber technical challenges in collaboration with engineering.
• You are naturally curious and stay on top of emerging trends and threats.
• You have a comprehensive understanding of velocity-driven software delivery to connect effectively and in a meaningful way with software and platform engineers
• You seek to understand the business and technology landscape and cross-functional dependencies to inform product vision and integration with larger organizational goals
• You are a clear thinker, thrive in working across teams, and an expert in dealing with ambiguity.
• You understand and track key metrics on security, resilience, and performance for your product(s) and understand levers that drive these metrics
• You have strong consulting and analytical skills and a risk management mindset
• You have the ability to foster collaborative, open working relationships with technology partners and other stakeholders
• You demonstrate balanced judgment in decisions and incorporate risk factors accordingly
• You have a strong bias for action

Basic Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• At least 6 years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology
• At least 4 years of experience in Cloud Security with a focus on multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• At least 4 years of experience in product management

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science
• 5+ years of experience solving cyber technical challenges
• 5+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into products
• 2+ years of experience with AI Security frameworks, Agentic AI architectures, and the secure implementation/use of Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers
• 2+ years of experience implementing security best practices for containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Amazon ECS)
• 3+ years of Cyber product owner experience
• 2+ years of experience in technical writing
• 2+ years of hands-on JIRA experience
• 3+ years of experience in scaled agile product management
• 1+ years of experience in regulated financial services organizations or tech companies
• 2 or more professional certifications (SAFe PM/PO, CISSP, GIAC, CISM, CCSP, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Security)

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

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: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

Plano, TX: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

Richmond, VA: $209,000 - $238,5 00 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

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.

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.

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).