Capital One National Association
Senior Director, Design, Travel
Capital One National Association, Richmond, California, United States, 94875
Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia
Senior Director, Design, TravelThe Premium Design team sets the bar for Capital One’s high-spender customer experience ecosystem, revolving around highly useful, personalized, and high-stakes products. We are currently seeking a Sr. Director, Design, Travel to lead our most prominent and fastest growing benefits vertical for both consumers and businesses. You will lead an established product design team across research, UX, UI, design strategy and design operations, accountable for both web and native mobile products.
As Sr. Director Design, Travel you will also operate as a strategic leader at the intersection of business, customer, associate experience to uncover and define compelling forward-looking product design trends and investment areas. You’ll do it all in a collaborative environment that encourages you to build relationships, take on new responsibility, and promotes continuous learning. You’ll work on established products, nascent products, and completely new products not yet delivered to customers.
What You’ll Do:
Set and maintain bar for product design rigor in Travel, and partner with other leaders to elevate that of Premium Design
Measure and communicate how experience design drives business results and help our partners imagine the possibilities
Provide leadership and connect dots across our horizontal teams, focusing on strategic projects, customer insights, quality, and design operations
Build and lead a dedicated team to identifying and executing highest leverage strategic projects across Premium
Lead cross-functional engagements with Experience Strategists, Researchers, Operations team members on large scale efforts
Devise organizational structures that optimally leverage internal expertise and market intelligence to maximize design impact
Craft compelling stories grounded in rigorous insights and analysis to influence senior and executive partners across the company
Lead designers and non-designers on cross-functional project teams to understand and apply research findings by framing problems, defining insights, and designing new methodologies and practices to serve customer needs
Manage internal stakeholder and partner relationships
Embrace and advocate an experience mindset with our teams and partners - this is as important to the work as the results
Manage and coach high potential associates, including actively crafting a vision for their roles and their success
Effectively work with partners and teams across various geographies
Resiliently lead teams through change
Our ideal candidate will have the following experience and skills:
Experience designing and leading travel or lifestyle software products
Experience in complex product ecosystems that solve needs for many different customer types at scale
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Proficiency in grounding and communicating design decisions and strategies in the context of both the business and user - communicating analysis, customer trends, opportunity, and business impact grounded in insights
Experience in leading a portfolio of work bringing emerging opportunities to market
Experience in leading strategic and horizontal teams within a product design space
Exceptional people management and development skills
Exceptional workshop and meeting facilitation skills
Fantastic interpersonal skills, with experience influencing senior decision making
Experience with working in design innovation environments
Basic Qualifications:
At least 12 years professional experience in design
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree or advanced Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Behavioral Science, or related field
10+ years experience in a leadership role leading Customer Experience, Product Design, Research, or Design Operations teams
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Salary Information:
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location:
New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $272,600 - $311,200 for Sr. Director, Design
San Francisco and San Jose, California (Hybrid On-Site): $288,800 - $329,600 for Sr. Director, Design
Illinois (Hybrid On-Site): $254,100 - $290,000 for Sr. Director, Design
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 the
Capital 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.
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Senior Director, Design, TravelThe Premium Design team sets the bar for Capital One’s high-spender customer experience ecosystem, revolving around highly useful, personalized, and high-stakes products. We are currently seeking a Sr. Director, Design, Travel to lead our most prominent and fastest growing benefits vertical for both consumers and businesses. You will lead an established product design team across research, UX, UI, design strategy and design operations, accountable for both web and native mobile products.
As Sr. Director Design, Travel you will also operate as a strategic leader at the intersection of business, customer, associate experience to uncover and define compelling forward-looking product design trends and investment areas. You’ll do it all in a collaborative environment that encourages you to build relationships, take on new responsibility, and promotes continuous learning. You’ll work on established products, nascent products, and completely new products not yet delivered to customers.
What You’ll Do:
Set and maintain bar for product design rigor in Travel, and partner with other leaders to elevate that of Premium Design
Measure and communicate how experience design drives business results and help our partners imagine the possibilities
Provide leadership and connect dots across our horizontal teams, focusing on strategic projects, customer insights, quality, and design operations
Build and lead a dedicated team to identifying and executing highest leverage strategic projects across Premium
Lead cross-functional engagements with Experience Strategists, Researchers, Operations team members on large scale efforts
Devise organizational structures that optimally leverage internal expertise and market intelligence to maximize design impact
Craft compelling stories grounded in rigorous insights and analysis to influence senior and executive partners across the company
Lead designers and non-designers on cross-functional project teams to understand and apply research findings by framing problems, defining insights, and designing new methodologies and practices to serve customer needs
Manage internal stakeholder and partner relationships
Embrace and advocate an experience mindset with our teams and partners - this is as important to the work as the results
Manage and coach high potential associates, including actively crafting a vision for their roles and their success
Effectively work with partners and teams across various geographies
Resiliently lead teams through change
Our ideal candidate will have the following experience and skills:
Experience designing and leading travel or lifestyle software products
Experience in complex product ecosystems that solve needs for many different customer types at scale
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Proficiency in grounding and communicating design decisions and strategies in the context of both the business and user - communicating analysis, customer trends, opportunity, and business impact grounded in insights
Experience in leading a portfolio of work bringing emerging opportunities to market
Experience in leading strategic and horizontal teams within a product design space
Exceptional people management and development skills
Exceptional workshop and meeting facilitation skills
Fantastic interpersonal skills, with experience influencing senior decision making
Experience with working in design innovation environments
Basic Qualifications:
At least 12 years professional experience in design
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree or advanced Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Behavioral Science, or related field
10+ years experience in a leadership role leading Customer Experience, Product Design, Research, or Design Operations teams
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Salary Information:
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location:
New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $272,600 - $311,200 for Sr. Director, Design
San Francisco and San Jose, California (Hybrid On-Site): $288,800 - $329,600 for Sr. Director, Design
Illinois (Hybrid On-Site): $254,100 - $290,000 for Sr. Director, Design
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 the
Capital 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.
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