Senior Associate, Product Manager

Capital One; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Associate, Product Management to lead data-driven product initiatives in Small Business Bank. You will define vision, strategy and execute roadmaps, coordinating across product, engineering, data science and business teams to deliver scalable, customer-centric experiences.

You will influence architecture, manage risk, and prioritize features to drive measurable business value while collaborating with cross‑functional teams in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in Product Management.
• Preferred: cs/engineering degree and data environment experience.

Responsibilities

• Define vision, strategy and execution roadmap for data‑driven experiences.
• Influence architecture and align stakeholders across product, engineering and data.
• Deliver scalable data ecosystem supporting growth and value.

Skills

Intellectually Curious

Comfort with ambiguity

Communicator & Influencer

Do-er / Action oriented

Team player

Customer focus

Learner

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or military experience

Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

APIs

Data lakes

Job description

Senior Associate, Product Manager 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.

About the team:

In Small Business Bank, our customers are the lifeblood of the US economy, making up 99% of businesses in the US and accounting for 44% of the country's GDP. We've built an organization that is focused on listening to and learning from the millions of business customers we serve every day to make sure our products, services and experiences work as hard as they do. On our team, we combine that customer‑centric approach with our heritage of data‑driven decision making to design, build, and test our way to best-in‑class, business‑grade experiences that help Small Businesses succeed.

We are looking for a Product Manager to join our Data Modernization journey in Capital One Small Business Bank. In this role, you will define the vision, strategy, and execution roadmap for enabling the next generation of data‑driven personalized experiences and business use cases. You'll influence architecture, align stakeholders across product, engineering, data, data science and business organizations to deliver an easy‑accessible, scalable data ecosystem that supports future growth and deliver an exceptional value.

In this role, you’ll learn the essentials of being a product manager, and we’ll invest in you to grow in four key areas:

• Human Centered You’ll collaborate with tech teams to build comprehensive acceptance criteria, identifying and elevating any need for additional research to define future feature design You'll breakdown business epics into features and further into user stories, driving your team towards lowest effort or Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for a valid feature test
• Business Focused Demonstrating a growth mindset, you’ll effectively use hypothesis-driven assessment of data to ensure your product or feature delivers on real business needs You’ll own and prioritize feature development roadmaps, ensuring all necessary processes and procedures are followed to manage risk
• Technology Driven You’ll work autonomously in an agile environment, to conduct research and develop features that utilize new and evolving technology You’ll collaborate with designers, technologists, data scientists and subject‑matter experts to build cutting edge solutions to help customers You’ll deliver well‑managed product platforms for customers by seeking to understand technology trends and architecture strategy
• Transformational Leadership By actively participating in horizontal forums, you’ll harness a network of trusted relationships among tech teams, designers, key internal stakeholders and partner teams You’ll articulate a succinct product roadmap to deliver business value and share with with stakeholders, elevating your team’s results and becoming a product matter expert

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 2 years of experience working in Product Management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering
• Experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products
• Experience with data flows built on modern data environments inclusive of data lakes, Snowflake, APIs, and Streams

This role is designated as a hybrid position. You are expected to adhere to Capital One's hybrid policy regarding required on-site presence at your designated office location. 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).

• McLean, VA: $111,200 - $126,900 for Sr. Associate, Product Management
• New York, NY: $121,300 - $138,400 for Sr. Associate, Product Management
• Richmond, VA: $101,100 - $115,400 for Sr. Associate, Product Management

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.

CapitalOneis 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.

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