Product Design Manager, Premium Design Job at Capital One in Chicago

Product Design Manager, Premium Design

Capital One

We’re currently seeking a Product Designer to join our Experience Design team. We’re passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation.

The Team

The Premium Design team defines the gold standard for Capital One’s high-spender customer experience ecosystem. Our work centers on creating highly useful, personalized, and high-impact products. This role is essential for driving the vision and crafting exceptional, end-to-end experiences that evolve and enhance the customer journey, delivering best-in-class card experiences and lifestyle benefits. As a key member of the team, you will collaborate closely with design craft leads, designers, and cross-functional partners to push creative boundaries while ensuring both significant business impact and compelling customer value. If you are motivated to tackle complex design challenges, we encourage you to apply.

Role Expectations

As a Product Designer, you’ll combine your craft expertise and leadership skills with an understanding of our customers and the business to co‑create innovative solutions to complex problems and influence product strategy.

Competencies

• Product Design Expertise: Demonstrate a high degree of skill in product design, leveraging a variety of skills across interaction, visual and service design; inform the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and create artifacts such as journey maps, blueprints, high‑fidelity designs and prototypes.
• Leadership: Lead design projects, directing and delegating work for more junior team members and building strong partnerships with cross‑functional stakeholders while mentoring and helping to mature the overall product design practice at Capital One.
• Human‑Centered: Effectively navigate the needs of partners and stakeholders, leveraging critical‑thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability and tech constraints, while ensuring the team focuses on customer‑centered solutions and inclusive design.
• Business‑Focused: Demonstrate proficiency with products and processes and apply relevant insights on customers, competitors and broader market trends to business challenges that shape a shared point of view for your team, partners and stakeholders.
• Problem‑Solving: Demonstrate a solid understanding of tech, data capabilities and emerging technologies and use this knowledge to inform your work and help your cross‑functional team move faster and navigate technical limitations in service of impactful solutions.
• Collaboration: Leverage a rich network of partnerships across lines of business and the organization to foster collaboration and share solutions, incorporating cross‑functional perspectives to bridge gaps in information and drive product strategy.
• Communication: Present work across levels and job functions using a human‑centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to articulate a compelling point of view that influences strategic decision‑making and direction at senior levels.

Basic Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in a Product Design role.
• At least 5 years of experience in design and prototyping tools such as Figma.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience in a Product Design role.
• At least 6 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 partners.
• Experience leading design projects or teams.
• Experience working in heavily regulated, data‑heavy problem spaces.

Location & Compensation

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:

• Chicago, IL: $144,000 – $164,400
• McLean, VA: $158,400 – $180,800
• New York, NY: $172,800 – $197,200
• Richmond, VA: $144,000 – $164,400

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).

Benefits

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

Equal Opportunity Statement

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 and will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.