Capital One Senior Director Product Management Data Security - Capital One Software 

United States, Virginia, Richmond 

967659443

• 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 problems. You’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.

As part of the Capital One Software team, you will:

• Lead product management for our next-generation data security platform, with a focus on building foundational capabilities for secure data transformation, protection, and privacy in cloud-native environments.

• Drive innovation in applied cryptography, leading development of scalable, production-grade solutions that incorporate modern algorithms and are built to evolve alongside post-quantum cryptographic standards.

• Own the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for tokenization and encryption services, anticipating emerging threats and aligning capabilities to the future of secure compute, zero trust architectures, and privacy-preserving technologies.

• Define and prioritize core product features, working closely with engineering, cryptographers, and researchers to ensure the highest standards of security, performance, and compliance (e.g., NIST, FIPS, ISO/IEC).

• Serve as a hands-on thought leader, driving internal and external conversations about the future of data security, cryptographic agility, secure multi-party computation, and other emerging trends in cybersecurity.

• Attend external customer meetings (sales, onboarding, customer success) as a deep technical subject matter expert to articulate the vision, gather feedback, and validate market needs in highly regulated industries.

• Partner with teams in engineering, design, sales, customer success, legal, and risk to drive adoption, influence industry standards, and deliver measurable business impact.

• Manage key vendor and partner relationships to ensure alignment with the broader security ecosystem and accelerate product development and integration where needed.

• Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of product managers focused on security innovation and technical depth, fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity and hands-on experimentation.

• Champion Capital One Software’s position as a leader in enterprise data security through white papers, conference talks, and engagement with industry working groups.

• 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:

• At least 9 years of experience in digital product management

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:

  • A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field)

  • A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in applied cryptography or security protocols

• MBA or Master’s degree

• 7+ years of experience managing high-performing product management teams

• 5+ years of experience managing products for a B2B SaaS company supporting cloud data management and security use cases

• Demonstrated ability to bring security products from concept to production, especially those requiring low-latency, high-throughput cryptographic operations at enterprise scale

• Deep familiarity with cryptographic standards and frameworks (e.g., NIST, FIPS 140-3, ISO/IEC 27001)

• Experience with quantum-safe algorithms, homomorphic encryption, or privacy-preserving technologies (e.g., differential privacy, secure enclaves, MPC)

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.

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

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