Manager, Product Designer - Capital One Software

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 164,800 - 188,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance based incentive compensation

Comprehensive health benefits

Inclusive workplace culture

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Product Designer for its Experience Design team in McLean, VA. This role involves leading innovative design solutions, optimizing user flows, and contributing to the overall strategy to elevate the Capital One brand. You will collaborate across teams to create a compelling user experience backed by your expertise in design tools like Figma.

The ideal candidate will have a strong product design portfolio and at least 5 years of experience. This position also offers a competitive salary range and performance-based incentives.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in a Product Design role.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating leadership, process, results, and impact.

Responsibilities

• Co-create innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Lead design projects and mentor junior team members.
• Influence product strategy through human-centered design.

Skills

Product Design Expertise

Leadership

Human-Centered Design

Business-Focused

Problem-Solving

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

We are at the forefront of shaping the digital landscape for Capital One Software, and we're looking for a lead designer to join our Software website team. As a partner to the Director of Product, this is a foundational role focused on the discovery and delivery of a compelling, best-in-class B2B digital experience. We’re seeking someone who is obsessed with usability, customer empathy, and funnel optimization. A primary focus will be optimizing key user flows to improve task completion and customer satisfaction while building a content-rich experience that elevates discoverability through search and AI channels. You will have a direct hand in shaping the website into a high-impact, performance-driven platform that aligns with brand, sales, and growth objectives.

We’re currently seeking a Product Designer to join our Experience Design team. We’re passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation.

The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences. 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 Product Designer, you’ll combine your craft expertise and leadership skills with an understanding of our customers and the business to co-create innovative solutions to complex problems and influence product strategy.

• Product Design Expertise: Demonstrate a high degree of skill in product design, leveraging a variety of skills across interaction, visual and service design; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, inform the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and creates artifacts that may include journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes.
• Leadership: Lead design projects, directing and delegating work for more junior team members and building strong partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders while also mentoring and helping to mature the overall product design practice at Capital One.
• Human-Centered: Effectively navigate the needs of partners and stakeholders, leveraging critical-thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability and tech constraints, while ensuring the team focuses on customer-centered solutions and inclusive design.
• Business-Focused: Demonstrate proficiency with products and processes and apply relevant insights on customers, competitors and broader market trends to business challenges that shape a shared point of view for your team, partners and stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Demonstrate a solid understanding of tech, data capabilities and emerging technologies and use this knowledge to inform your work and help your cross-functional team move faster and navigate technical limitations in service of the impactful solutions.
• Collaboration: Leverage a rich network of partnerships across lines of business and the organization to foster collaboration and share solutions, incorporating cross-functional perspectives to bridge gaps in information and drive product strategy.
• Communication: Present work across levels and job functions using a human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to articulate a compelling point of view that influences strategic decision-making and direction at senior levels.

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

Basic Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in a Product Design role
• At least 5 years of experience in design and prototyping tools such as Figma

Preferred 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
• Experience working with and contributing to an established design system
• Experience collaborating with product, tech and business partners
• Experience leading design projects or teams
• Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

McLean, VA: $164,800 - $188,100 for Manager, Design

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San Francisco, CA: $179,700 - $205,100 for 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.

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.