Overview

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Product Designer – Small Business

The Small Business Bank Design team is looking for a Senior Associate, Product Designer. This group of passionate human-centered designers and strategic thinkers are charged with creating experiences in service of a small business owner’s dream, and providing them with financial tools and guidance that feel exclusively created for every moment in their journey.

We collaborate with partners from product, tech, ops, analytics, legal, marketing, and brand teams to bring about a persistent focus on our customers and create elegant, simple products and services that can make a positive impact on the lives of small business owners.

Our small but mighty design team supports 2 primary workstreams: acquisitions and servicing (both customer and associate serving experiences), which all share a common goal of creating breakthrough experiences that meet our customers unique, multi-user needs.

Who you are:

• A builder:  You like getting your hands dirty to create great experiences around business intent and customer insights
• A learner: You thrive on constructive feedback and seek input from stakeholders and teammates early and often
• A multi-tasker: You can efficiently manage your time, juggle projects and consistently communicate progress with your manager and team
• A partner: You develop relationships with key product and tech partners to build a customer-first experience
• A storyteller: You can weave and share compelling narratives around research findings and design concepts
• An energizer: You gather and integrate feedback, influence stakeholders and create energy for ideas or initiatives
• An open book: You’re comfortable sharing in-progress work with teammates and partners

What you’ll do:

• Responsible for the end-to-end user experience and interface design for both customer-facing, and internal associate serving experiences, working closely with PMs, engineers, and stakeholders across the company
• Develop new feature concepts, frameworks, portfolio prioritization, and roadmaps that help drive the strategic definition of the desired user experience
• Develop deep empathy for our customers and use research to inform design solutions
• Translate strategy into concept prototypes to communicate your vision through artifacts
• Provide UX direction for development, testing, and refinement of digital and service prototypes
• Use visual and tangible storytelling to share your discoveries, influence stakeholders, and create energy around your ideas
• Become entrenched in available and defined design systems and apply these in your work where applicable

What you’ll bring:

• Empathy that will empower you to be a customer advocate in our product development processes
• Strong leadership presence to facilitate collaboration between Design and Tech
• Ability to translate user needs and requirements into clear and compelling artifacts
• Ability to clearly communicate your recommendations to partners and influence the shape of the product using service blueprints, future state maps, user journeys, and more
• Excellent problem-solving and relationship management skills

Your Design Portfolio:

• Highlights both your UX and your UI work
• Reflects understanding of design principles, systems thinking and industry-standard interaction patterns for responsive web and/or mobile.
• Showcases end-to-end work on digital product design projects – show your process from discovery to delivery
• Gives us a glimpse of what makes you and your skills unique

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of experience with user experience design and including visual UI design

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience in the full range of product design, interaction design and visual design
• A compelling portfolio that demonstrates your past work and its impact
• Familiarity with a variety of user research methodologies and how to use them effectively
• Excellent communication and the ability to influence multiple levels of the organization
• Experience designing and shipping web and mobile products that customers love
• Ability to design for any platform (iOS, Android, mobile web, desktop etc.)
• Mastery of design and prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Pixate, etc)

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.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $114,700 – $130,900 for Sr. Associate, Design

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.

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. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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