Overview

Senior Director, Small Business Solutions Design

Senior Director, Small Business Solutions

(Senior Director level - People Leader)

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We’re succeeding because they’re succeeding.                                               

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we’re on a quest to change banking for good.

We’re currently seeking a Product Design Senior Director to lead our Small Business Solutions team, which is part of the Experience Design organization. 

The Small Business Solutions team delivers a suite of software that helps Small Businesses run their business with confidence. We are a mission-driven team, spending our time with small business owners and operators, understanding their needs, co-creating with them and celebrating their success as our success.

The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences and we are passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you’re a creative innovator who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we’d love to hear from you.  

Role Expectations 

As Senior Director of Small Business Solutions, you’ll lead a talented, cross-disciplinary team of design leaders and designers, collaborate deeply with our research teams and Product and Technology leadership. You’ll be responsible for identifying and advocating for high-leverage opportunities with executive stakeholders and leading high-impact, highly complex design projects that set the bar for and drive experience excellence and business outcomes. 

You will envision, design, deliver and optimize experiences across channels (including web, mobile, human to human) and emerging technologies (such as agentic AI) to help small business customers run their business with confidence. This will include products and experiences such as:

• Onboarding and managing business teams across a suite of business credit card, rewards, payment solutions to fit into their unique combination of needs, workflows and software

• Managing vendors, payments,, getting paid, and spend controls across their business 

• Planning, booking and managing expenses for business travel across their business

Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:

Product Design Expertise: Leverage established expertise and leadership in product design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One. Leveraging a variety of skills across interaction, visual and service design; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, help to oversee and optimize the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and enable your team to develop artifacts that may include vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes

Leadership:Build a thriving community of designers who are well supported, trained for excellence and able to collaborate with peers in multiple functions and set the vision and strategic direction for your team in close partnership with your cross-functional partners

Human-Centered: Recognize and pursue opportunities where customer needs and business goals coincide, while reinforcing with teammates and partners the importance of collecting and considering diverse customer perspectives throughout the design process

Business-Focused: Demonstrate a mastery of products,  processes, customers, competitors and broader industry trends and apply this knowledge to predict shifts in these areas and shape how Design should engage, uncover and solve significant business challenges

Problem-Solving: Revels in the art of the possible, driving cross-functional groups in thinking creatively about potential solutions, illuminating potential pitfalls and fostering shared learnings; builds frameworks for complex decision-making that enable effective debate and accelerate getting to the right solutions

Collaboration: Connect the dots across the organization, proactively bringing together executive partners in ways that drive more coherent experiences, accelerate delivery and elevate the value of design 

Communication:Present work to executive leaders and stakeholders, modeling a strategic human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to make the complex accessible, influence change and drive strategic direction

The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating your leadership, process, results and impact.

Basic Qualifications:

•  At least 10 years of experience in leading product design teams and delivering products to market

• At least 3 years managing managers

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 12 years of experience in leading product design teams and delivering products to market

• Experience in a design toolkit that spans product design, service design, design strategy and content design 

• Deep experience leading product design teams operating across UX and UI, strategy, content, and research from strategy through delivery to market 

• Deep experience partnering with product managers, engineers, marketing, and analytics leaders across multiple business lines to shape strategy, performance metrics, roadmaps, and operating models

• Deep experience interfacing with executive leadership to solve problems, influence key decisions, and drive results across strategy, design, roadmaps and investments 

• Experience working within a design system 

• Proficiency with web and mobile technologies and platforms, navigating technology considerations and constraints to drive sound product and experience decisions 

• Expertise with design and prototyping tools such as Figma 

• Experience managing an interdisciplinary design team 

• Proficiency working with technology and platform teams to develop new systems, platforms and investigate new technologies, tools and interaction models such as LLMs and agentic AI

• Proficiency in business case development, grounding product and user experience decisions to business value 

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills 

• Exceptional interpersonal skills and relationship building across complex organizations 

• Exceptional people management and development skills 

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. No agencies please Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; Newark, New Jersey Ordinance 12-1630; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

Preferred Qualifications - An understanding of why and how to build products that are accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities

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, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $264,300 - $301,700 for Sr. Director, Design

New York, NY: $288,400 - $329,100 for Sr. Director, Design

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

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.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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