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Director, Product Management - Horizontal Initiatives

AT Capital One
Capital One

Director, Product Management - Horizontal Initiatives

San Francisco, CA

Director, Product Management - Horizontal Initiatives

Product Management

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. Do you dream of well-designed and intuitive products and customer experiences? Do you want to be the one who introduces change to help tens of millions of customers make smarter financial choices? Do you want to change the way people manage their money? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then product management at Capital One may be a fit for you

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The Horizontal Product team is responsible for defining and leading key strategic and cross-cutting initiatives within Enterprise Consumer Products, ensuring the successful launch of new digital experiences across multiple platforms. This team works closely with hundreds of platforms and stakeholders to solve novel and/or complex problems at scale.

We are looking for a product leader to run product strategy and integrated problem solving for some of our most complicated use cases. In this role, you will be responsible for partnering closely with our lines of business to understand their pain points and define requirements and work with architecture and enterprise platform leaders on multi-year, integrated roadmap to achieve destination outcomes. You'll lead cross-functional programs made of project managers, engineers, architects, TPMs, Product Managers, and Business Analysts to ensure delivery of capabilities that meet short-term and long-term goals.

What You'll Do

  • Drive the vision for multi-year product strategy in partnership with lines of business, collaborating with business partners to translate high-level needs into capabilities that could be leveraged across multiple use cases to drive business and customer outcomes
  • Partners with Enterprise Product and Platform Director - VP population on connecting the dots with other platforms to understand key integration points and prioritization on capabilities that cut across multiple systems
  • Clearly articulate, evangelize, and align enterprise platform leadership behind the product strategy, ensuring commitments to build for short- and long-term needs.
  • Build a multi-year (2-3 year) roadmap and execution strategy with the team by understanding customer and business needs and utilizing data and stakeholder feedback to drive prioritization
  • Partner with architecture and distinguished engineers to research, define, and develop the architecture that will support destination
  • Define metrics and KPIs we will use to measure the success of the program
  • Build relationships and partnerships with teams across the company, align on strategy, vision, execution and enablement.

Who You Are

  • Experience defining strategy, building product roadmaps, working with large cross-functional teams and shipping at scale
  • Track record of successfully operating within a highly matrixed work environment with multiple stakeholders including building successful partnerships with lines of business, engineering, and platform groups
  • Consumer-centric view with a proven track-record of developing and acting on customer insights
  • Experience with A/B testing, hypothesis validation, user testing and analytics software
  • Documented success building, managing and retaining high-performance teams
  • Ability to clearly identify the tradeoffs of product KPIs and decisions
  • A clear thinker with external focus and excellent communication and relationship building skills; ability to communicate complex concepts in a simple manner
  • Strong analytical skills and a hypotheses-driven approach to problem solving
  • Flexibility to quickly adapt to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines

In this role, you'll be expected to demonstrate proficiency in five key areas:

  • Human Centered. You'll deeply immerse yourself in knowing your internal and/or external customer(s) by employing empathy and design thinking to define broad-scale solutions that provide breakthrough leverage. You'll model adaptability by encouraging continuous evolution to product strategy in light of industry trends, emerging solutions, new insights and changing customer and business needs
  • Business Focused. You'll deeply learn the financial drivers, externalities, and points of leverage within your domain to identify new products or product enhancements that drive sustainable value for Capital One. You'll be promote a culture anchored in data, used to instrument products, validate outcomes, drive insights, and manage the business both tactically and strategically
  • Technology Driven. You'll be responsible for fostering a strong agile discipline and inspiring teams to continuously improve delivery evidenced through key agility metricsYou'll partner with Technology leaders to influence end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant and scalable technology solutions that solve material customer and business problemsYou'll govern the responsible and efficient application of technology resources by assessing opportunities for reusing existing solutions, clearly defining minimum viable products, and always building with extensibility in mind
  • Integrated Problem Solving. Develop and champion a bold vision that drives meaningful outcomes by embracing the art of the possible. Build frameworks for complex decision making that enable effective debate and accelerate getting to the right answer
  • Transformational Leadership. You'll establish a long-term product portfolio strategy, informed by customer and business needs, and partner with leaders and stakeholders to regularly drive alignment, secure resources and overcome impediments. You'll attract, grow, empower, and inspire top product talent as they develop and deliver on their local product strategy in an iterative, outcome-focused and well-managed way

We want you if you are:

  • Intellectually Curious. You're comfortable navigating between the big ideas and executional realities to create an achievable strategic Product Vision. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.
  • Communicator & Influencer. You're comfortable influencing a group of executives as well as communicating your product vision clearly to your associates and partners. You can be open to different communication styles and listen carefully to diverse sets of ideas.
  • Do-er. You're biased toward action, and are willing to make commitments and trade-offs with other leaders to remove impediments for your team; you are a leader obsessed with delivering valuable in an iterative way focusing in minimum viable product
  • Passionate & Customer Focus. You care about growing others and bringing them together around what's possible. You have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs and build long lasting relationships.
  • Learner. You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when exploring unknown technologies; you will seek for internal solutions before building new
  • Team Player. You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You are also able to coach others and be a mentor in product development.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • At least 7 years of experience in Digital Product Management

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • MBA or Master's degree
  • 10+ years of experience in Product Management
  • 5+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified 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: $226,000 - $257,900 for Director, Product Management

New York, NY: $246,500 - $281,300 for Director, Product Management

Richmond, VA: $205,400 - $234,400 for Director, Product Management

San Francisco, CA: $246,500 - $281,300 for Director, 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. 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): San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Richmond, VA, USA; McLean, VA, USA
Job ID: capital-R205729
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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