Senior Manager, Product Design; IC

Senior Manager, Product Design (IC)

(Individual Contributor)

This is a hybrid position located in Plano, TX. Relocation to Plano, TX is required if you’re not located in the Dallas, TX area.

We’re currently seeking a Senior Manager, Product Designer (IC) to join our Experience Design organization.

As a Senior Manager Product Designer, you’ll combine your craft expertise, influence & strategic thinking with an understanding of our customers and the business. You’ll co‑create innovative solutions to complex problems, drive product strategy and contribute to a thriving team culture of high‑performing designers.

Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:

• Product Design Expertise: Leverage established product design expertise and skills across interaction, visual and service design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One; in collaboration with cross‑functional partners, help to oversee and optimize the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and work with teams to develop artifacts that may include vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high‑fidelity designs and prototypes.
• Mentorship: Advance the craft of design at Capital One by leading, mentoring and consulting with others, providing expertise that matures the design discipline, builds our culture and enables work to move forward efficiently.
• Strategic Influence: You’ll shape product direction and outcomes by leveraging deep content design expertise, user insights, and an understanding of the business. You’ll drive alignment across product, tech, and business partners, ensuring user needs are central to our overall strategy and enabling bold, innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Human‑Centered: Advocate for human‑centered methodologies that align customer needs and business goals by applying data, research insights, design expertise and a mature perspective to problem‑solving across the portfolio.
• Business‑Focused: Demonstrate strong knowledge of products, processes, customers, competitors and broader market trends and use that knowledge to shape how Design should engage (i.e., actively managing the portfolio, pivoting, redirecting and broadening and narrowing scope, as needed).
• Problem‑Solving: Own the problem‑solving approach (issue, impact, resolution) and apply good judgment when exploring alternatives and balancing competing interests or priorities, leveraging leadership for input and alignment. Bring exceptional creativity to exploring a solution space.
• Collaboration: Engage partner expertise and perspectives from across the organization to support workstream projects and identify the people needed to move the work forward, embracing compromise to solve strategic challenges and deliver the best results.
• Communication: Present work across levels and job functions, modeling a strategic human‑centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to make the complex accessible, influence stakeholders and achieve desired results.

The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating your leadership, process, results and impact.

• 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

• At least 8 years of experience in a Product Design role
• At least 8 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 leaders
• Experience leading design projects or teams
• Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces

Plano, TX: $182,500 - $208,300 for Sr. Manager, 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. Eligibility varies based on full or part‑time…