Sr. Manager, Product Management - Inbound Payments Platform

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Sr. Manager, Product Management - Inbound Payments Platform Making a payment towards your credit card is one of the most fundamental yet critical interactions we have with our customers. Given the impact of payment decisions on a customer's financial health - and the emotions inherently tied to this behavior - there is ripe opportunity to enhance our underlying technology for the sake of radically improving our customer experience.

The Payments Platform team is hiring Sr. Managers of Product Management in two areas:

• Driving our strategic vision across Payment Eligibility & Validation, Payments Data product, and Well-Managed Initiatives. This role is pivotal to our platform's success and offers an unparalleled opportunity to shape our approach to eligibility standards, data-driven insights, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and Define Strategy for key parts of the platform: Develop and execute the product strategy for our enterprise eligibility and validation services, focusing on supporting multiple tenants, providing self-service capabilities to non-engineering users, enabling engineering contributions from other groups, and driving transparency with our clients about what we are delivering and why.
• Drive Data Product Strategy: Oversee two enterprise data products and drive them to market.
• Champion Well-Managed Practices: Lead efforts to create resilient, secure, and audit-ready systems, embedding best practices across product development and operations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across product, engineering, and enterprise teams to align on shared goals and drive seamless execution.
• Mentorship and Development: Foster a collaborative, growth-oriented environment by mentoring a talented team, providing them with the support and resources needed to succeed.

• Directly interacting with our clients to understand unique business needs and to onboard and care for new use cases. You will work with cross-functional teams (analytics, technology, operations, risk, etc.) to evolve how our platform provides leverage to the organization and re-imagine client interactions to make our platform as easy to use as possible.

Key Responsibilities:

• Acts as the voice of the business and customer for the team
• Incorporates design thinking and analytics to inform product design
• Ensures a healthy backlog by regularly grooming intent with the team
• Prioritizes the Product Backlog to maximize on business and customer outcomes
• Defines acceptance criteria for work and accepts user stories
• Collaborates across teams and the Product Manager community
• Supports team with escalation and resolution of impediments
• Works directly with team and plays a key role in key Agile and SAFe ceremonies

Do you dream of more elegant and intuitive products and customer experiences? Do you want to be the one who introduces change to help tens of millions of customers make smarter financial choices? Do you want to change the way people manage their money? You have to ask yourself do you feel like making an impact?

In this role, you'll be expected to demonstrate proficiency in four key areas:

• Human Centered
  • You'll lead sourcing and synthesis of customer discovery efforts to understand customer needs to drive the long term vision for your product
  • You'll turn these customer insights into actionable strategies that will define the priorities for your team and rally your stakeholders to your vision

• Business Focused
  • You'll own and prioritize the long-term (12-18 months) product roadmap to deliver on business outcomes, working closely with a cross-functional team to ensure that all the right resources are aligned to ensure that and your team will be successful
  • You'll define KPIs for your product and will be responsible for measuring and tracking to those measures, with an eye to adjusting and refining your roadmap as the data dictates

• Technology Driven
  • You'll have an end-to-end understanding of your product and how it fits into the larger ecosystem to be able to anticipate impacts from changes in other parts of the business
  • You'll work closely with tech leadership and architecture to understand the tradeoffs of technical decisions and how they impact the ultimately customer experience your team will deliver always looking to ensure you're using the best tool for the job

• Transformational Leadership
  • You'll rally your teams and senior stakeholders to your product vision and proactively leverage relationships throughout the ecosystem to align to your vision and influence prioritization across partner teams
  • You'll be responsible for attracting and retaining top talent to your team and mentoring and developing associates on their product career

We want you if you are:

• Intellectually Curious. You ask why, you explore, you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea or follow an email chain for weeks to find someone with an answer. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.
• Communicator & Influencer. You can communicate complex ideas clearly regardless of your audience. Our team knows their priorities and why they're doing what they're doing. You always can rally associates to work with you.
• Do-er. You're biased toward action, you try things and sometimes you fail. You can get around roadblocks and stay focused on your goals. You're well organized, able to multitask and able to prioritize your work.
• Passionate & Customer Focus. You care about growing others and bringing them together around what's possible. You get a thrill from the journey of building and shipping products, and you have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs.
• Learner. You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when the time comes to ask for help.
• Team Player. You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You have the ability to put the team before yourself and establish long-lasting relationships.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or military experience
• At least 5 years of experience in digital product management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• MBA or Master's degree
• 3+ years of experience in Agile product management
• Experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $199,100 - $227,200 for Sr. Mgr, Product Management Illinois (Hybrid On-Site): $185,600 - $211,800 for Sr. Mgr, Product Management 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 committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. 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 ; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal . click apply for full job details