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Business Director, Effortless Customer Experiences

AT Capital One
Capital One

Business Director, Effortless Customer Experiences

McLean, VA

Locations: VA - McLean, United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Business Director, Effortless Customer Experiences

As a Business Director at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You'll team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.

This Business Director will lead a team of business analysts in the Retail Bank focused on driving Effortless Customer Experiences. This role sits within our Branch, Cafe and Operational team in the Retail Bank but it is a Bank-wide role focused on measuring our customer experiences both in person and digitally. We are seeking to identify a suite of metrics that capture Customer Effort. Our goal is to identify any effort hot spots so that our leadership team and product teams can design solutions to reduce customer effort and make banking with us easy.

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The Business Director for Effortless Customer Experiences will:

Oversee Analytics Delivered By The Team

  • Help define what metrics we can use to measure customer effort
  • Collaborate with Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Product Experts, Design, and other functional areas to bring the best expertise to the table to build the metrics suite
  • Pull in data sets from across the retail bank and the enterprise to evaluate customer effort (this would include things like call volume, complaints, etc.)
  • Facilitate discussions with the Senior Leadership Team in the Retail Bank including with leaders of Product, Marketing, and Operations to refine and improve the approach
  • Once we have pulled in the data, assess and evaluate insights coming from that data (e.g. build 2x2, assess quarterly trends, identify effort hot spots), and create recommendations for how we can drive down customer effort
  • Develop a learning agenda to teach product leaders across Capital One Retail Bank how to leverage effort data and how to reduce customer effort (learning agenda will be supported by external best practices and internal Design team expertise)
  • Directly lead a team of 2-3 analysts and oversee a cross-functional team to deliver these outcomes - this is a new team we are still in a building phase
  • Indirectly lead a team of 50+ cross functional stakeholders in product, data science, tech, servicing

Lead Senior Executive Problem Solving and Execution of Data Infrastructure

  • Develop materials to facilitate problem solving with the most senior executives across Capital One (including for example the Retail Bank President, Chief Data Officer, the Chief Product Officer, Head of Card Servicing, etc)
  • Lead the thinking on how to build our Effort Data infrastructure (eg new Machine Learning Models or data tools)
  • Work with Bank, Card and Enterprise Product and Tech leaders to refine our Data Infrastructure Roadmap and to oversee the implementation of that roadmap

The ultimate results this role will drive include

  • Create deep expertise in the Retail Bank about the definition and importance of customer effort
  • Identify effort hot spots where we should focus our time and energy to drive bottom line outcomes for Capital One and customers (e.g. increases in Primary Banking Relationships, reductions in call volumes and complaints)
  • Lead the thinking on how to build data infrastructure that will become the backbone of customer-experience insights in the Retail Bank

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • At least 7 years of experience in analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree
  • 2+ years of experience in financial services
  • 1+ year of experience in consulting

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified 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 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 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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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).

Client-provided location(s): McLean, VA, USA
Job ID: capital-R199144
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • On-Site Gym
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
    • Profit Sharing
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Founder led

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