Lead UX Designer

Ever since our first credit card customer in 1994, Capital One has recognized that technology and data can enable even large companies to be innovative and personalized. As one of the first large enterprises to go all-in on the public cloud, Capital One needed to build cloud and data management tools that didn’t exist in the marketplace to enable us to operate at scale in the cloud. In 2022, we publicly announced Capital One Software and brought our first B2B software solution, Slingshot, to market.

Building on Capital One’s pioneering adoption of modern cloud and data capabilities, Capital One Software is helping accelerate the data management journey at scale for businesses operating in the cloud. If you think of the kind of challenges that companies face – things like data publishing, data consumption, data governance, and infrastructure management – we’ve built tools to address these various needs. Capital One Software will continue to explore where we can bring our solutions to market to help other businesses address these same needs.

We are seeking top tier talent to join our pioneering team and propel us towards our destination. You will be joining a team of innovative product, tech, and design leaders that tirelessly seek to question the status quo. As a Capital One Lead UX Designer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of building this business and bringing these tools to market.

We are currently seeking a Lead UX Designer to join Capital One Software Design’s platform team. Our mission is to design the horizontal and foundational technologies that empower Capital One Software’s growing product line, covering high impact areas such as onboarding, login, user management, installation, software catalog, notifications, data visualization, design system, AI capabilities, and more. We are passionate about advocating for user needs and delivering world-class products that redefine our customers’ day-to-day activities.

The Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity, and healthy critique, where we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you’re an innovator and storyteller who embraces an environment where you can experiment and learn, we would love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do:

Strategy & Planning

• Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs, translating them into intuitive and engaging digital experiences.
• Translating complex ideas into understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product experience.
• Engaging in portfolio prioritization to help set the strategy and product roadmap for the team.
• Managing through shifting priorities to provide clear direction and input on product prioritization and support early product definition.
• Advocating for the customer through human-centered design methods, including discovery, research sketch sessions, and user testing.
• Championing prioritization of design-centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis.
• Working with partners and teams across various geographies.
• Embracing and advocating for an experience mindset.

Leading & Developing Teams

• Leading successful teams through career development by mentoring, coaching, and elevating others.
• Guiding team members in strategy, research, alignment, analysis, design critiques, and design execution tasks.
• Navigating conflict resolution within your team as well as within projects, teams, and partner relationships.

Discovering & Delivering

• Supporting early product definition by facilitating discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities.
• Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams.
• Driving end-to-end product design by:
• Working with researchers to understand customer needs and define opportunities through usability and empathy studies.
• Framing problems, defining insights, and designing new methodologies/practices to serve customer needs.
• Creating process and user flows, wireframes, journey maps, and interaction models, resulting in prototypes.
• Planning and facilitating workshops with internal and external stakeholders to align with business needs.
• Designing within existing and creating new standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines.
• Storytelling and presenting visual concepts to various stakeholders.
• Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues.

Basic Qualification

• 5 or more years of experience with User Experience design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing complex workflows in complex domains and use cases.
• Experience designing capabilities with multiple products and teams as stakeholders.
• Experience working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes.
• Experience contributing to and working with design systems.
• Strong familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Figma, Sketch, and/or Adobe products.
• Experience being a design leader in a cross-functional team.
• Experience working on B2B and/or technical 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:

• Sales Territory: $144,000 - $164,400
• McLean, VA: $158,400 - $180,800
• Richmond, VA: $144,000 - $164,400
• New York, NY: $172,800 - $197,200

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.