Sr. Director, Project Management

Overview

As the Sr. Director of Project Management, you will be the primary architect of this movement. You will lead a high‑judgment, forward‑leaning coordination and communication across a number of different work streams as we unpack what is needed to experiment with Agentic AI coding, cutting‑edge models, and revolutionary ways of working. This is a role for a leader who understands that to "speed up," we must first have the courage to "slow down" and experiment.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Governance: Align project portfolios with strategy and growth goals, defining success criteria and portfolio governance models.
• Executive Communication & Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary liaison between executive leadership and teams, presenting project updates, risks, and recommendations.
• Enterprise‑wide Mobilization: Drive the program roadmap using insights from survey data and industry trends to ensure teams remain focused on the highest‑leverage AI opportunities.
• Operational Excellence: Maintain our "Always be Well‑Managed" standard, ensuring that even the most evolutionary process changes meet Capital One’s high bar for governance and security.
• Risk Mitigation & Escalation: Act as the final escalation point for critical issues and identify complex portfolio‑level risks.
• Cross‑Functional Orchestration: Partner deeply with leaders across the company, to communicate, update, plan for and adjust to shifting priorities.
• Learning Synthesis & Evangelism: Distill complex learnings from the initial 15‑team wave into actionable playbooks that can be scaled across the entire enterprise.
• Change Management: Lead the cultural shift toward process and team changes that shift how we operate based on the evolution of the approach.
• Strong project management and cross‑functional coordination.
• The "Trailblazer" Mindset: You must be comfortable with ambiguity and have a proven track record of managing "sophisticated failures" that lead to long‑term success.
• Influence & Narrative: The ability to tell a compelling story to executives and engineers alike, turning raw data into a vision that motivates 140+ pioneers.
• Focus on Leverage: A ruthless ability to guard teams against low‑leverage work and distractions.
• AI Literacy: A deep curiosity for (and ideally experience with) AI/ML tools, Agentic AI, and how LLMs are transforming the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Ability to evaluate technology‑assisted outputs using strong judgment and accountability.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years of project or program management experience
• At least 7 years of People Management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or MBA
• 10+ years of project or program management experience
• 10+ years of people leadership experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification
• 5+ years of project management experience leading cross functional programs in risk
• 3+ years of experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience in project management and cross‑functional coordination

Compensation

McLean, VA: $238,700 - $272,400
New York, NY: $260,400 - $297,200
Richmond, VA: $217,000 - $247,700
Roles in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location. 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.

Immigration Support

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

Equal Employment 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.

Accommodation

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