Capital One Director Product Core Modernization 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

238657738

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia Director, Product, Core Modernization

The Card Core Modernization team runs the “nuclear” core processing platform and associated capabilities for the card business. This platform is the foundation that the Capital One’s consumer life-cycle is built upon including:

• Product Setup + Account Booking

• Account cycling and billing

• Settlement functions

• Account and Transaction SORs

• Merchant and Fraud Dispute Handling

• Account closure

• And much more

The product leader for Card Core Modernization will broadly interface with stakeholders across the Card Line of Business, and play an increasingly critical strategic role in Core Modernization, as they will need to balance the “needs of today” with “enabling the move to the modern core”, which will translate into the following kinds of problem solving:

• Balancing business needs to “add more” to today vs. Modern Core tomorrow, including new capabilities to be built on current Core

• Strategically managing our team interactions with vendors to achieve near and long-term goals

• Proactively managing our product risk and health posture - and directly informing related functional requirements in the modern core

• Opportunistically leverage depth of insights from existing Core, and lessons learned / tooling to inform how future state more broadly designs and executes migration

• Drive product management best practices throughout the organization and establish a culture of product management discipline

In this role, you will 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. You’ll model adaptability by encouraging continuous evolution to product strategy in light of industry trends, emerging solutions, new insights and changing customer and business needs

• 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. You’ll be promote a culture anchored in data, used to instrument products, validate outcomes, drive insights, and manage the business both tactically and strategically

• Technology Driven. You’ll be responsible for fostering a strong agile discipline and inspiring teams to continuously improve delivery evidenced through key agility metrics. You’ll partner with Technology leaders to influence end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant and scalable technology solutions that solve material customer and business problemsYou’ll govern the responsible and efficient application of technology resources by assessing opportunities for reusing existing solutions, clearly defining minimum viable products, and always building with extensibility in mind

• Integrated Problem Solving. Develop and champion a bold vision that drives meaningful outcomes by embracing the art of the possible. Build frameworks for complex decision making that enable effective debate and accelerate getting to the right answer.

• 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. You’ll attract, grow, empower, and inspire top product talent as they develop and deliver on their local product strategy in an iterative, outcome-focused and well-managed way

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. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.

• Communicator & Influencer.You’re comfortable influencing a group of executives as well as communicating your product vision clearly to your associates and partners. You can be open to different communication styles and listen carefully to diverse sets of ideas.

• 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; you are a leader obsessed with delivering valuable in an iterative way focusing in minimum viable product

• Passionate & Customer Focus.You care about growing others and bringing them together around what’s possible. You have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs and build long lasting relationships.

• Learner.You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when exploring unknown technologies; you will seek for internal solutions before building new

• Team Player.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in digital product management

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

• MBA or Master’s degree

• 5+ years of experience in Agile product management

• 5+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $233,100 - $266,000 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). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

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