Director, Product Management, DevX - API Platforms

Director, Product Management, DevX - API Platforms

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Capital One is a high‑tech company, scientific laboratory, and nationally recognized brand, serving tens of millions of consumers. As a Developer Experiences organization, we obsess over building amazing solutions for our developer community and measure ourselves by how well we unblock developers to do their best work and by how satisfied they are. This team leads our API ecosystem and associated developer platforms.

APIs are a critical building block for developing software across customer applications, real‑time financial decision‑making, machine learning, and AI. We touch every part of Capital One.

Given our importance, our API platforms are a critical control point in managing API traffic within and across the enterprise and protect against malicious actors or accidental data leakage. This role will have general PM responsibility for all aspects of API management within Capital One, setting the standard for application integration excellence across the enterprise. We’re passionate about building platform software for the next generation of developers at Capital One and are looking for someone excited to build lovable yet bulletproof solutions s work is core to Capital One’s mission to change banking for good.

Responsibilities

• Engage all stakeholders (Business, Engineering, Architecture, Risk, and Cyber) to serve as the voice of the customer, identify new capabilities, define product features, and work closely with development teams to launch those features.

• Set strategic vision and drive your team’s roadmaps, and regularly engage and update Leadership and stakeholders.

• Partner with engineering leadership across multiple teams, ensuring strong collaboration and alignment among your teams.

• Own the product management practice within your organization, defining expectations and commitments and driving continuous improvement.

• Operationalize product metrics for the products you own and build business cases for new investment.

• Influence senior stakeholders to adopt your products and build buy‑in and trust by sharing consequent business impact.

Qualifications

• Technical knowledge necessary to propose and influence new product and feature ideas, especially in the space of enterprise‑scale APIs, balancing developer enablement with governing and securing the API ecosystems.

• Experience forming business strategy and translating it into enterprise‑grade software solutions.

• Strong understanding of API and cloud operations, with the ability to articulate the opportunities and trade‑offs across an API management ecosystem.

• Keen awareness of the latest developments, trends, and best practices in API management and application integration, with an incessant interest in adopting the latest innovations.

• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast‑paced, multi‑disciplined, distributed‑responsibility and often ambiguous environment.

• Analytical and quantitative skills; experience using hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.

• Demonstrated experience mentoring, empowering, and elevating product teams to deliver against business objectives and roadmaps.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with experience engaging and influencing senior executives.

• Strong work ethic as a team player and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.

Basic Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience working in Product Management.

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
- A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field).
- A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations…