Principal Associate, Cyber Product Owner (Cyber Intelligence)

Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Principal Associate, Cyber Product Owner (Cyber Intelligence)

Capital One is seeking a product owner to help deliver game-changing cybersecurity solutions based on threat, data, and design thinking. At Capital One, we believe in the values of Excellence and Doing the Right Thing. We are a technology-oriented company delivering financial products to market through modern technology and constant innovation at a massive scale.  Part of that innovation is leveraging technology to deliver the best cybersecurity solutions for our business.   
 

As a Product Owner supporting the Cyber Intelligence Service, you will be accountable for contributing to and delivering upon the strategic agenda for our core cyber products to drive meaningful progress for our customers and our business. In this capacity, you will drive product vision into our development teams, translate vision into delivery objectives, provide customer-informed guidance to shape products, and work with cross-functional teams to deliver well-managed and sustainable features that bring that vision to life. You will use your deep technical knowledge and subject matter expertise in cybersecurity and systems engineering to drive impactful improvements to our cyber capabilities. 

What you’ll do:

• Communicate the Intelligence delivery roadmap to our stakeholders and leverage the product vision to inspire the teams 

• Clearly articulate and advocate target persona, customer benefit, and value of features across teams

• Leverage Intelligence experience and technical knowledge of how systems work to effectively support engineering teams in delivering value

• Utilize strong cybersecurity background, customer research and insights to represent the voice of the customer to the engineering team(s)

• Incorporate design thinking and analytics to inform product design

• Actively participate in research or design sessions for new features

• Contribute to the development of a healthy product backlog, collaborating with the Product Manager, Engineering, and Solution Architects to break down business epics, document user stories (to also include things like addressing technical debt, SRE, etc.), design details and comprehensive acceptance criteria

• Lead internal backlog refinement sessions to refine cyber and customer intent, prepare business epics and stories for technical breakdown and planning, and ensure requirements are well understood by the engineering teams

• Prioritize the Product Backlog to maximize business and customer outcomes by balancing technical and non-technical aspects while also incorporating cyber and operational risk reduction outcomes and activities

• Ensure the timely delivery of product deliverables by staying abreast of dependencies & impediments

• Act as a technical advisor to the product manager, engineering, and other stakeholders

• Collaborate across multiple cross-functional teams and the Product Owner community and play a key role in key Agile and SAFe ceremonies

• Support teams through escalation and resolution of impediments

• Drive performance and innovation with data-driven insights and a culture of continuous improvement

• Proactively identify opportunities when key metrics on security, resilience and performance for your product (s) are not performing

• Maintain technical and risk credibility with your own team(s) and with partners across our technology organization
    

About you:

• You have excellent written & verbal communication skills with a track record of being able to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences

• You believe that a core component of security’s role is to enable the business, not just to secure it, and the solutions you bring to life are aligned to the needs of our developer community, customers, and business partners.

• You have experience leveraging Threat Intelligence to reduce risk or improve security controls

• You thrive in working in a fast paced, technologically forward leaning environment and are not afraid to push the boundaries of security capabilities.

• You seek to create enduring value by delivering reusable, extensible and resilient cybersecurity capabilities to address the evolving threat landscape

• You actively solve f