Capital One Financial Corporation

Cyber Product Owner

Capital One Financial Corporation$197K — $225K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • 4+ years in cybersecurity or IT experience.
  • 2+ years in Cloud Security focusing on multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • 2+ years of product management experience.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science (preferred).
  • 5+ years solving cyber technical challenges (preferred).
  • 2+ years of experience with AI Security frameworks (preferred).

Responsibilities

  • Communicate the delivery roadmap to technology teams based on the product vision.
  • Articulate and advocate for customer benefits and feature value across teams.
  • Leverage technical knowledge to support engineering in delivering value.
  • Represent the voice of the customer using cybersecurity background and insights.
  • Utilize design thinking and analytics in product design efforts.
  • Participate in research or design sessions for new features.
  • Contribute to product backlog development and refinement sessions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits for employees and families.
  • Financial support plans for well-being.
  • Competitive incentives including cash bonuses and long-term incentives.
  • Inclusive workplace culture and initiatives to support diversity.
  • Opportunities for career growth and development.
Full Job Description
Cyber Product Owner

As a Product Owner in Cyber, you will be accountable for contributing to and delivering upon the strategic agenda for our core cyber products to drive meaningful progress for our customers and our business. In this capacity, you will drive product vision into our development teams, translate vision into delivery objectives, provide customer-informed guidance to shape products, and work with cross-functional teams to deliver well-managed and sustainable features that bring that vision to life. You will use your deep technical knowledge and subject matter expertise in cybersecurity and systems engineering to drive impactful improvements to our cyber capabilities.

What you’ll do:
  • Communicate the delivery roadmap to our technology teams by inspiring the team through the product vision

  • Clearly articulate and advocate target persona, customer benefit, and value of features across teams

  • Leverage technical knowledge and skills on how systems work and how code is built to effectively support engineering teams in delivering value

  • Utilize strong cybersecurity background and customer research and insights to represent the voice of the customer to the engineering team(s)

  • Incorporate design thinking and analytics to inform product design

  • Actively participate in research or design sessions for new features

  • Contribute to the development of a healthy product backlog, collaborating with the Product Manager, Engineering, and Solution Architects to break down business epics, document user stories (to also include things like addressing technical debt, SRE, etc.), design details and comprehensive acceptance criteria

  • Lead internal backlog refinement sessions to refine cyber and customer intent, prepare business epics and stories for technical breakdown and planning, and ensure requirements are well understood by the engineering teams

  • Prioritize the Product Backlog to maximize business and customer outcomes by balancing technical and non-technical aspects while also incorporating cyber and operational risk reduction outcomes and activities

  • Act as a technical advisor to the product manager, engineering, and other stakeholders

  • Collaborate across multiple cross-functional teams and the Product Owner community and play a key role in key Agile and SAFe ceremonies

  • Support teams through escalation and resolution of impediments

  • Drive performance and innovation with data-driven insights

  • Proactively identify opportunities when key metrics on security, resilience and performance for your product (s) are not performing

  • Maintain technical and risk credibility with your own team(s) and with partners across our technology organization

About you:
  • You believe that a core component of security’s role is to enable the business, not just to secure it, and the solutions you bring to life are aligned to the needs of our developer community, customers, and business partners.

  • You thrive in working in a fast-paced, technologically forward-leaning environment and are not afraid to push the boundaries of security capabilities.

  • You seek to create enduring value by delivering reusable, extensible, and resilient cybersecurity capabilities to address the evolving threat landscape

  • You actively solve cyber technical challenges in collaboration with engineering.

  • You are naturally curious and stay on top of emerging trends and threats.

  • You have a comprehensive understanding of velocity-driven software delivery to connect effectively and in a meaningful way with software and platform engineers

  • You seek to understand the business and technology landscape and cross-functional dependencies to inform product vision and integration with larger organizational goals

  • You are a clear thinker, thrive in working across teams, and are an expert in dealing with ambiguity.

  • You understand and track key metrics on security, resilience, and performance for your product(s) and understand levers that drive these metrics

  • You have strong consulting and analytical skills and a risk management mindset

  • You have the ability to foster collaborative, open working relationships with technology partners and other stakeholders

  • You demonstrate balanced judgment in decisions and incorporate risk factors accordingly

  • You have a strong bias for action

Basic Qualifications:
  • High School Diploma or GED

  • At least 4 years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology

  • At least 2 years of experience in Cloud Security with a focus on multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

  • At least 2 years of experience in product management

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science

  • 5+ years of experience solving cyber technical challenges

  • 5+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into products

  • 2+ years of experience with AI Security frameworks, Agentic AI architectures, and the secure implementation/use of Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers

  • 2+ years of experience implementing security best practices for containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Amazon ECS)

  • 3+ years of Cyber product owner experience

  • 2+ years of experience in technical writing

  • 2+ years of hands-on JIRA experience

  • 3+ years of experience in scaled agile product management

  • 1+ years of experience in regulated financial services organizations or tech companies

  • 2 or more professional certifications (SAFe PM/PO, CISSP, GIAC, CISM, CCSP, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Security)

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, or another type of work authorization).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100 for Manager, Cyber TechnicalPlano, TX: $179,400 - $204,700 for Manager, Cyber Technical


 

Richmond, VA: $179,400 - $204,700 for Manager, Cyber Technical


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

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 theCapital 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.

About Capital One Financial Corporation

Chevy Chase Bank is the greater Washington region's largest locally-owned banking institution providing a complete array of financial products and services to consumers and businesses in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Bank, which is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, has approximately 250 branches and over 1,000 ATMs, more than anyone else in the greater Washington market. Chevy Chase Bank currently has over $16 billion in assets and services over 1 million customers. For more information about Chevy Chase Bank, please visit chevychasebank.com.

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Learn more about Capital One Financial Corporation
Size
51,500 employees
Market Cap
$34.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+2.4%
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