Senior Manager, Product Design

Capital One is seeking a Senior Manager, Product Design to lead the Money Management design efforts within the Experience Design organization. This onsite role in McLean, VA offers a salary range of USD 182,500 to 249,900 per year and a culture that centers on human-centered design, collaboration, and design excellence. You will steer product strategy, grow a high-performing design team, and shape the customer experience across the Money Management portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Blend craft expertise with people leadership to understand customers and the business, co-creating innovative solutions, guiding product strategy, and cultivating a thriving team of high-performing designers.
• Product Design Expertise: demonstrate established proficiency across interaction, visual, and service design; collaborate with cross-functional partners to optimize tools, platforms, frameworks, and design systems, and develop artifacts such as vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes.
• Leadership: foster an inclusive team environment, set goals aligned to portfolio strategy, manage stakeholders, remove barriers, and develop designers to help the business achieve its goals.
• Strategic Direction: shape product direction and outcomes through deep design expertise, user insights, and business understanding; drive alignment across product, tech, and business partners to keep user needs central and enable bold solutions.
• Human-Centered: advocate for human-centered methodologies that align customer needs and business goals by applying data, research insights, and design thinking across the portfolio.
• Business-Focused: apply knowledge of products, processes, customers, competitors, and market trends to guide how Design engages with the broader portfolio, adjusting scope as needed.
• Problem-Solving: leverage expertise in technology and data capabilities and emerging technologies to craft innovative design strategies and accelerate cross-functional teams toward bold outcomes.
• Collaboration: incorporate perspectives from across the organization to support workstreams, assemble the right people to move initiatives forward, and balance compromise to achieve results.
• Communication: present work across levels and functions, using a strategic, human-centered approach that combines design frameworks, data, and research to clarify complexity and influence stakeholders.
• Portfolio impact: a strong portfolio demonstrating leadership, process, results, and impact.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in a Product Design role
• At least 6 years of experience with design and prototyping tools such as Figma
• At least 2 years of experience in a people leadership role

Technologies

• Figma

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other benefits
• Performance-based incentive compensation

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a Product Design role
• 8+ years of experience in design and prototyping tools such as Figma
• Experience working with and contributing to an established design system
• Experience collaborating with product, tech and business leaders
• Experience leading design projects or teams