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Capital One Senior Associate Travel Experiences Delivery Lead United States, Virginia, Arlington 449044031
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As the Travel Delivery Lead, you will leverage your strong organizational, communication, teamwork, and problem solving skills to deliver on highly strategic travel initiatives in close partnership with our Product Managers and Business Analysts. You will also work cross functionally with our partner teams, including: Tech, Design, Marketing, Risk, Legal, and 3rd party partners to bring our innovative travel features to market and manage large-scale marketing and product rollouts.
Scope of Role & Responsibilities:
Ultimate Answer:Be the team member that can/will do whatever it takes to effectively remove blockers, move the program forward, and deliver value for customers and the business
Coordination of execution:Develop & maintain delivery execution plans. Track progress against timelines, risks to delivery. Be ‘in-the-know’ side by side with product, tech, design, marketing, and well managed conversations across teams to connect the dots and ensure things do not fall through the cracks.
Dependency mapping, tracking, and resolution:Develop & maintain dependency maps. Coordinate timelines w/ dependent teams independently. This may be across tech, product, design, marketing lane, Hopper, & well-managed partners. Be the ‘quarterback of delivery’ of the piece of intent once it is defined.
Stakeholder management:Have a constant pulse of the current state of affairs for their scope. Independently connect with relevant stakeholders to set expectations, problem solve issues, remove blockers, etc. Lead delivery prep meetings across our team and stakeholders , develop launch materials, and develop GNG materials.
Status Tracking & Reporting:Be able to both create & distribute systemized status reporting on delivery progress to Product & Tech Leadership Team, and also provide ad-hoc updates on specific areas of interest as needed.
Steward of documentation:Create structure for defining, executing, and maintaining system documentation that can be used to assist with onboarding, federation & contribution models, and intent launch plans.
Steward of well-managed processes:Track & champion well managed processes for both tech efforts (SONIC & Operational Excellence) as well as gathering, storing, & organizing documentation for well-managed partners (legal, risk, compliance).
Testing Planning & Support:
As the Travel Delivery Lead, you will need:
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills - organizing & facilitating meetings, distributing follow-ups, developing decks, etc.
Excellent problem solving and influencing skills, and the ability to cut through ambiguity to bring sense and structure to a problem and define the path forward
A quantitative approach to problem solving and a collaborative approach to implement holistic solutions; a systems thinker
A deep focus on execution, follow-through, accountability, and results, with a forward-lean on taking proactive ownership
Exceptional cross-team collaboration; able to work across different functions, organizations, and reporting boundaries to get the job done.
Exceptional organizational and documentation skills, with the ability to create structure from scratch and clearly document and communicate that structure to team and partners
A strong technical background (ideally building highly scalable platforms, products, or services) with the ability to proactively identify and mitigate technical risks throughout delivery life-cycle
The ability to simplify the technically complex and drive well-educated decisions across product, analyst, engineering, design, marketing, and external partner representatives
To facilitate Well Managed processes like ADA and LAUNCH
To have highly tuned emotional intelligence, be a good listener, and have deep seated empathy for teams and partners
We want you if you are:
Self-Starter:Willing & able to create repeatable processes that simplify execution and insert themselves into work streams to autonomously find ways to deliver value to the broader group.
Team Player:Able to build strong relationships with both tech & product partners to work cross-functionally. Has a lean-in attitude and is willing to reach out to partners autonomously to get the team answers as needed (both within & adjacent to travel).
Systems Thinker:Able to connect the dots between how different technology systems work together to add value. Comfortable working cross-functionally across different teams.
Communicator:A strong communicator that can inform stakeholders up through VP on status, progress, & impediments. Capable of communicating with business, technology, design, and marketing leaders. Strong written & verbal communication is paramount.
Comfortable with technology:Understands the basic building blocks of tech systems and to be able to converse with both PdMs & Tech Leads about how different components fit together. They should understand how data & backend systems come together to deliver a user experience. They should not be expected to participate in code reviews or committing code.
Organizer:
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
At least 2 years of project or program management, client facing consulting experience, or a combination
Preferred Qualifications:
At least 4 years of program management, client facing consulting experience, or a combination
At least 2 years of experience in a horizontal delivery function
Significant experience centralizing information from many teams and creating structure and a delivery plan
Experience creating clear and structured Google Slides presentations and other documentation
Knowledge and experience utilizing project management tools and techniques (Jira)
. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
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