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Director, Content Design, Core Card Experiences

We're currently seeking a content design director to join our Core Card Experiences team, which is part of the Experience Design organization.

Card is the largest revenue source for Capital One. However, many people don't understand key concepts around credit, how to use it wisely and how to use it to build a better financial future. In this role, you will oversee the customer and associate facing experiences that help make our biggest business thrive.

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.

Role Expectations

As a content design director on the Core card Experiences team, you'll leverage your exceptional content design skills to lead high-impact, highly complex projects and define and drive design strategy that informs the higher-level vision of the organization and aligns to business objectives. You'll collaborate deeply with our design and research teams and Product and Tech leadership and apply your expertise to elevating the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One.

Additionally, you will lead the charge in collaborating with Research to use quantitative and qualitative testing to ensure our content meets the needs of all users.

Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:

Content Design Expertise: Leverage established expertise and leadership in product design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One

Leadership: Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to other design roles, such as content design, UI/UX design, research, operations, design strategy and service design and lead complex projects, directing the work of junior designers

Human-Centered: Champion voices of both customers and partners, modeling the mindset that business and customer outcomes are not distinct but complementary, ultimately resulting in experiences that exceed baseline customer needs and expectations

Business-Focused: Demonstrate expert knowledge of products, processes, our customers, competitors and industry market trends, applying relevant insights to shape how Design should engage and solve business challenges

Problem-Solving: Share insights around technical advances and data capabilities that could influence outcomes, while helping larger teams navigate technical limitations and boundaries in service bold technological solutions, data destinations and efficiency

Collaboration: Connect the dots across teams, portfolios, platforms and LOBs, bringing together partners and processes in ways that drive more coherent experiences, accelerate delivery and elevate the value of design

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 senior stakeholders and achieve impactful results

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

Basic Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in a content design, strategy, or UX writing

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in a content design, strategy or UX writing

• 8+ years of experience working with and contributing to an existing design system

• Experience in a design toolkit that spans content design, product design, service design and design strategy

• Experience leading high-impact, highly complex projects from strategy through delivery to market

• Experience partnering with product managers, engineers, marketing, and analytics leaders across multiple business lines to shape strategy, OKRs, roadmaps and operating models

• Proficiency with web and mobile technologies and platforms, navigating technology considerations and constraints to drive sound product and experience decisions

• Expertise with design and prototyping tools such as Figma

• Track record of effectively guiding, mentoring, growing and inspiring design teams

• Proficiency in business case development, grounding product and user experience decisions to business value

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Exceptional interpersonal skills and relationship building across complex organizations

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.

McLean, VA: $230,400 - $263,000 for Director, Design

New York, NY: $251,400 - $286,900 for Director, 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.

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.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. 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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