Senior Manager, Product Design

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.

Senior Manager, Product Design 

(Senior Manager level - People Leader)

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We’re succeeding because they’re succeeding.                                               

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we’re on a quest to change banking for good.

Financial Services is currently seeking a Senior Manager, Product Design to join our Auto Loan Servicing team, which is part of the Experience Design organization. 

We are seeking a dynamic Senior Design Leader who is adept at navigating a data-heavy and highly regulated organization and managing a diverse design team. This leader will drive the design strategy and execution across several key areas: internal systems, AI initiatives, mobile app design, and content design.

The ideal candidate will excel at communicating with VP-level stakeholders, demonstrating forward-thinking problem-solving skills and a strong, customer-centric lens. This role is responsible for driving meaningful improvements and shaping the future of our user experience.

The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences and we are passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation. 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 a creative innovator who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we’d love to hear from you. 

Role Expectations 

As a Senior Manager of Product Design, you’ll combine your craft expertise and people leadership skills with an understanding of our customers and the business to co-create innovative solutions to complex problems, drive product strategy and create a thriving team culture of high performing designers.

Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:

Product Design Expertise: Demonstrate established expertise in product design, leveraging a variety of skills across interaction, visual and service design; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, help to oversee and optimize the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and work with your team to develop artifacts that may include vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes

Leadership: Reinforce a positive and inclusive team environment, set goals aligned to broader portfolio strategy, manage stakeholders, remove barriers and train and develop designers who are empowered to reach their potential and enabled to help the business to achieve its goals

Strategic Direction: You'll shape product direction and outcomes by leveraging deep design expertise, user insights, and an understanding of the business. You'll drive alignment across product, tech, and business partners, ensuring user needs are central to our overall strategy and enabling bold, innovative solutions to complex problems.

Human-Centered: Advocate for human-centered methodologies that align customer needs and business goals by applying data, research insights, design expertise and a mature perspective to problem-solving across the portfolio. 

Business-Focused: Demonstrate strong knowledge of products, processes, customers, competitors and broader market trends and use that knowledge to shape how Design should engage (i.e., actively managing the portfolio, pivoting, redirecting and broadening and narrowing scope, as n