Director, Product Management - Horizontal Initiatives

Company: Capital One
Location: Richmond
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

Director, Product Management - Horizontal InitiativesProduct ManagementProduct Management at Capital One is a booming, vibrant craft that requires reimagining the status quo, finding value creation opportunities, and driving innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology. We believe our portfolio of businesses and investments in growth and transformation will result in a company with the scale, brand, capabilities, talent, and values to succeed as the digital revolution transforms our society and our industry. Do you dream of well-designed and intuitive products and customer experiences? Do you want to be the one who introduces change to help tens of millions of customers make smarter financial choices? Do you want to change the way people manage their money? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then product management at Capital One may be a fit for you.The Horizontal Product team is responsible for defining and leading key strategic and cross-cutting initiatives within Enterprise Consumer Products, ensuring the successful launch of new digital experiences across multiple platforms. This team works closely with hundreds of platforms and stakeholders to solve novel and/or complex problems at scale.We are looking for a product leader to run product strategy and integrated problem solving for some of our most complicated use cases. In this role, you will be responsible for partnering closely with our lines of business to understand their pain points and define requirements and work with architecture and enterprise platform leaders on multi-year, integrated roadmap to achieve destination outcomes. You'll lead cross-functional programs made of project managers, engineers, architects, TPMs, Product Managers, and Business Analysts to ensure delivery of capabilities that meet short-term and long-term goals.What You'll Do

• Drive the vision for multi-year product strategy in partnership with lines of business, collaborating with business partners to translate high-level needs into capabilities that could be leveraged across multiple use cases to drive business and customer outcomes.
• Partner with Enterprise Product and Platform Director - VP population on connecting the dots with other platforms to understand key integration points and prioritization on capabilities that cut across multiple systems.
• Clearly articulate, evangelize, and align enterprise platform leadership behind the product strategy, ensuring commitments to build for short- and long-term needs.
• Build a multi-year (2-3 year) roadmap and execution strategy with the team by understanding customer and business needs and utilizing data and stakeholder feedback to drive prioritization.
• Partner with architecture and distinguished engineers to research, define, and develop the architecture that will support destination.
• Define metrics and KPIs we will use to measure the success of the program.
• Build relationships and partnerships with teams across the company, align on strategy, vision, execution and enablement.Who You Are
  • Experience defining strategy, building product roadmaps, working with large cross-functional teams and shipping at scale.
  • Track record of successfully operating within a highly matrixed work environment with multiple stakeholders including building successful partnerships with lines of business, engineering, and platform groups.
  • Consumer-centric view with a proven track-record of developing and acting on customer insights.
  • Experience with A/B testing, hypothesis validation, user testing and analytics software.
  • Documented success building, managing and retaining high-performance teams.
  • Ability to clearly identify the tradeoffs of product KPIs and decisions.
  • A clear thinker with external focus and excellent communication and relationship building skills; ability to communicate complex concepts in a simple manner.
  • Strong analytical skills and a hypotheses-driven approach to problem solving.
  • Flexibility to quickly adapt to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines.In this role, you'll be expected to demonstrate proficiency in five key areas:
    • Human Centered. You'll deeply immerse yourself in knowing your internal and/or external customer(s) by employing empathy and design thinking to define broad-scale solutions that provide breakthrough leverage.
    • Business Focused. You'll deeply learn the financial drivers, externalities, and points of leverage within your domain to identify new products or product enhancements that drive sustainable value for Capital One.
    • Technology Driven. You'll be responsible for fostering a strong agile discipline and inspiring teams to continuously improve delivery evidenced through key agility metrics.
    • Integrated Problem Solving. Develop and champion a bold vision that drives meaningful outcomes by embracing the art of the possible.
    • Transformational Leadership. You'll establish a long-term product portfolio strategy, informed by customer and business needs, and partner with leaders and stakeholders to regularly drive alignment, secure resources and overcome impediments.We want you if you are:
      • Intellectually Curious. You're comfortable navigating between the big ideas and executional realities to create an achievable strategic Product Vision.
      • Communicator & Influencer. You're comfortable influencing a group of executives as well as communicating your product vision clearly to your associates and partners.
      • Do-er. You're biased toward action, and are willing to make commitments and trade-offs with other leaders to remove impediments for your team.
      • Passionate & Customer Focused. You care about growing others and bringing them together around what's possible.
      • Learner. You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies.
      • Team Player. You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal.Basic Qualifications:
        • Bachelor's Degree
        • At least 7 years of experience in Digital Product ManagementPreferred Qualifications:
          • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
          • MBA or Master's degree
          • 10+ years of experience in Product Management
          • 5+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital productsCapital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified 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.McLean, VA: $226,000 - $257,900 for Director, Product ManagementNew York, NY: $246,500 - $281,300 for Director, Product ManagementRichmond, VA: $205,400 - $234,400 for Director, Product ManagementSan Francisco, CA: $246,500 - $281,300 for Director, Product ManagementThis role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.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.
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