We’re currently seeking a Senior Manager of Product Design to lead Partner Experiences in the Global Payment Network. 

The Global Payments Network is built on the reach, capabilities and expertise of our brands: Discover® Network, Diners Club International® and PULSE®. We process billions of transactions annually and partner across the industry to power payments globally. Our team is responsible for enabling our partners’ success through easy access to payment technology, fraud monitoring, and compliance platforms. 

This role requires a leader who can anchor bold, innovative ideas in sound business strategy, ensuring measurable results across channels. The ideal candidate has experience driving holistic campaigns at scale—delivering significant reach, engagement, and revenue or fundraising impact—while overseeing end-to-end creative production, including motion, 3D, and digital content ecosystems.

This individual will bring a strong pedigree of partnering with enterprise-level brands and stakeholders, demonstrating the ability to operate within complex, fast-paced environments. Core competencies include exceptional communication and stakeholder alignment, process optimization for high-volume creative output, and the ability to seamlessly bridge physical product storytelling with immersive digital experiences. The successful candidate is both visionary and operationally rigorous—capable of setting creative direction while building scalable systems that deliver consistent, high-quality results.

The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences and we are passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you’re a creative innovator who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we’d love to hear from you. 

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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.

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.

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.