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Experience Design Lead

AT Capital One
Capital One

Experience Design Lead

Plano, TX

Plano Town Center (31064), United States of America, Plano, Texas

Experience Design Lead

This is a Hybrid position located in Plano, TX. Relocation to Plano, TX is required if you're not located in the Dallas, TX area.

We are currently seeking a Lead UX Designer to join our team. We are passionate about advocating for user needs and delivering world-class products that redefine our customers' day-to-day financial activities.

We are passionate about advocating for user needs and delivering innovative, world-class products that redefine our customers day-to-day financial activities.

The 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 an innovator and storyteller who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we would love to hear from you.

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What You'll Do:

As a leader and maker, you'll be asked to handle responsibilities, including:

Strategy & Planning

  • Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs - then translating them into intuitive and engaging digital experiences
  • Translating complex ideas into understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product experience
  • Engaging in portfolio prioritization to help set the strategy and product road map for the team
  • Managing through shifting priorities to provide clear direction and input on product prioritization and support early product definition
  • Advocating for the customer through human-centered design methods, including: discovery, research sketch sessions, and user testing
  • Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis
  • Working with partners and teams across various geographies
  • Embracing and advocating for an experience mindset

Discovering & Delivering

  • Supporting early product definition by working with partners to facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer or associate pain points and opportunities
  • Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams
  • Driving end-to-end product design by:

    • Working with researchers to understand customer needs and define opportunities through usability and empathy studies
    • Framing problems, defining insights, and designing new methodologies/practices to serve customer needs
    • Creating process and user flows, wireframes, journey maps, and interaction models, resulting in low to high fidelity prototypes
    • Planning and facilitating workshops with internal and external stakeholders to align with business needs
    • Designing within existing - and creating new - standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines
    • Storytelling and presenting visual concepts to various stakeholders
    • Guiding the creation of high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with product, design, business, and tech.

Basic Qualifications

  • At least 6 years of experience with user experience design

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience designing for cross channel experiences
  • Comfortable working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes
  • Familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Sketch and/or Figma
  • Familiarity with working in an established design system
  • Experience managing a cross-functional team

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new 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.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com

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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): Plano, TX, USA
Job ID: capital-R190991
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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