Principal UI/UX Designer - Card Partnerships Design

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Principal UI/UX Designer - Card Partnerships Design

We are seeking a UX/UI Designer for our Card Partnerships design team, dedicated to creating innovative digital solutions for our partnerships business. Our focus is to advocate for user centered design and deliver exceptional digital experiences that transform everyday financial activities of our customers. This role involves leading end-to-end product design, focusing on reducing customer friction and crafting impactful experiences. 

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. 

What You’ll Do: 

You’ll be asked to handle a variety of responsibilities, including: 

Collaboration & Connection

• Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs, then translating them into engaging, simple, and intuitive design solutions and understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product interface and experience 

• Advocating for the customer through human centered design methods, including: discovery, research, ideation, whiteboard sessions, and user testing

• Supporting design-led workshops to engage and build alignment across different partners and teams

• Proactively offers recommendation and solutions by championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis

• Connecting with design community peers in service of learning, sharing, and teaching

• Working with partners and teams across various geographies

• Embracing and advocating for an experience mindset - this is as important to the work as the results

Discovery & Delivery

• Supporting early product definition by working with partners to participate in discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities

• Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams

• Participate in end-to-end product design by:

  • Working with researchers to understand customer needs and define opportunities through usability and empathy studies

  • Framing problems, determining insights, and defining visual designs to serve customer needs

  • Creating process and user flows, wireframes, journey maps, and interaction models, resulting in low to high fidelity prototypes

  • Designing within existing - and creating new - standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines

  • Supporting effective storytelling and presentation of visual concepts to various stakeholders

  • Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues

Basic Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience with UX and UI design

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven expertise in both UX and UI design, showcasing a strong portfolio.

• Experience in crafting cohesive cross-channel user experiences.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Product and Technology teams.

• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools, especially Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

• Experience with contributing to and enhancing an established design system.

• Confidence in presenting designs and concepts to large groups and key stakeholders.

• Background in working within a large enterprise setting, collaborating with diverse, cross-functional teams.

• Proven track record in planning and conducting user research, delivering actionable insights and recommendations.

• Skilled in facilitation and employing collaborative problem-solving methods.

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 manageme