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Capital One Product Design Lead Platform System 
United States, New York, New York 
90376264

26.06.2024
114 5th Ave (22114), United States of America, New York, New York Product Design Lead, Platform Design System

This Product Design Leader will oversee our platform design system and governance processes – ensuring that when we expand our product feature set, we do so in a methodical, systematic way. We’re looking for a designer who will take a systems-mindset to defining and deploying consistent, reusable componentry and patterns across our product portfolio. This designer gets excited by enabling fellow design and product partners with the documentation needed to leverage, contribute to, scale, and evolve our library.

What You’ll Do:

As a leader and maker, you’ll be asked to handle responsibilities, including:

Strategy & Planning

  • Product alignment — creating direction and facilitating product partnership while managing ambiguity and shifting priorities

  • Facilitation — planning and facilitating workshops with internal partners to deliver experiences that align business and user needs

  • Prioritization — engaging in strategic portfolio planning to set the product and design roadmap

  • User-centered — embracing and advocating for an experience mindset, reminding us all to focus on the user, even if our eyes are on the platform

Discovering & Delivering

  • Research — leading traditional and non-traditional design-thinking methodologies across the product delivery lifecycle, from foundational user research through usability

  • Collaboration — partnering with technology, product, and the business to uncover needs and translate them into engaging, simple, intuitive, and scalable design patterns

  • Storytelling — evangelizing the value of a systems-mindset, influencing partner adoption and making it easy to realize business impact

  • Form & Function — demonstrating robust knowledge of UX best-practices, having a sharp and highly critical eye for visual design, and balancing those with what is needed functionally and what can be built realistically

  • Quality — ensuring alignment to patterns and best practices through oversight and periodic experience review

  • Guidance – becoming the subject matter expert on pattern usage and approved practices, and providing methods that enable designers and partners to obtain your guidance as they make experience enhancements

  • Building — delivering reusable components and patterns via high-fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues

Leadership

  • Enabling easy adoption of and evangelization for using approved patterns and practices

  • Teaching the mindset for identifying when to create new patterns and when not to

  • Owning and facilitating the design system contribution model between design, product, and tech

  • Forming relationships with broader design system teams and thinking strategically about how to plan for eventual cross-business standardizations

Basic Qualifications

  • 8 years of experience in a Product Design role

  • 3 years of experience building and scaling design systems

  • 3 years of experience using Figma and its advanced features

  • 5 years of experience working with cross-functional teams—including Product, Tech and Design — to deliver experiences to market with shared alignment

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience designing for cross channel experiences

  • Experience designing for enterprise products

  • Experience working with design system CMS products, such as Storybook

  • Experience growing junior product designers

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $163,300 - $186,400 for Manager, DesignThis 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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