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Principal Associate, Project Management (Financial Services Command Center)

Capital One
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jan 2026
💰 $125,400/yr($109,900/yr$125,400/yr)

About the role

Principal Associate, Project Management (Financial Services Command Center)

The Principal Project Manager in the FS Command Center is a critical position that enables leaders to execute strategic work while ensuring operational rigor. As a Principal Associate, you should have an engaging executive presence, exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills, expertise in relationship-building, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines at once. You should be excited about maintaining a well-managed system while advancing continuous improvements across the organization. You will work with smart and passionate people to deliver results that have a direct impact on the company’s bottom line. You will be challenged to excel and lead alongside the brightest talent in the industry and be rewarded for your achievements.


General Project Management Responsibilities:

  • Leading moderate to large complex projects and programs by providing strategic direction to projects and peers.

  • Designing, developing, and managing project plans in a complex dynamic environment, revising needs to meet changing requirements

  • Ensuring projects are being documented appropriately to mitigate risk and to be delivered on time.

  • Leveraging problem solving and influencing skills to ensure project plans deliver Drives innovation in process and execution across our portfolio

  • Creates executive-ready presentations and materials

Client Advisor Responsibilities:

  • Cultivating and nurturing strong client relationships, providing strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive client success.

  • Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the delivery of commitments and client satisfaction.

  • Demonstrating exceptional influencing skills to effectively guide client and program efforts.

  • Exhibiting a proven track record of excellent relationship management, with the ability to quickly establish structure to manage client engagements in a dynamic, complex environment.

  • Possessing excellent communication and partnership skills, essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels across the company to manage, inform, and influence client outcomes.

  • Tackle and solve issues through escalation and articulate the issues that need to be done to elevate the team and allow easy accountability

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelors Degree or military experience

  • At least 5 Years of Project Management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • MBA or Masters Degree

  • 7+ years of Project Management experience

  • 3+ years of People Management experience

  • PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification

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

Plano, TX: $109,900 - $125,400 for Principal Project Manager


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

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 (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in complian

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