Design System Manager Jobs in New York (NOW HIRING)

We’re currently seeking a Product Designer to join our Experience Design team. We’re passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation.

The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences. 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.

The Premium Design team defines the gold standard for Capital One’s high‑spender customer experience ecosystem. Our work centers on creating highly useful, personalized, and high‑impact products. This role is essential for driving the vision and crafting exceptional, end‑to‑end experiences that evolve and enhance the customer journey, delivering best‑in‑class card experiences and lifestyle benefits. As a key member of the team, you will collaborate closely with design craft leads, designers, and cross‑functional partners to push creative boundaries while ensuring both significant business impact and compelling customer value.

As a Product Designer, you’ll combine your craft expertise and leadership skills with an understanding of our customers and the business to co‑create innovative solutions to complex problems and influence product strategy.

• Product Design Expertise: Demonstrate a high degree of skill in product design, leveraging a variety of skills across interaction, visual and service design; in collaboration with cross‑functional partners, inform the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and create artifacts that may include journey maps, blueprints, high‑fidelity designs and prototypes
• Leadership: Lead design projects, directing and delegating work for more junior team members and building strong partnerships with cross‑functional stakeholders while also mentoring and helping to mature the overall product design practice at Capital One
• Human‑Centered: Effectively navigate the needs of partners and stakeholders, leveraging critical‑thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability and tech constraints, while ensuring the team focuses on customer‑centered solutions and inclusive design
• Business‑Focused: Demonstrate proficiency with products and processes and apply relevant insights on customers, competitors and broader market trends to business challenges that shape a shared point of view for your team, partners and stakeholders
• Problem‑Solving: Demonstrate a solid understanding of tech, data capabilities and emerging technologies and use this knowledge to inform your work and help your cross‑functional team move faster and navigate technical limitations in service of the impactful solutions
• Collaboration: Leverage a rich network of partnerships across lines of business and the organization to foster collaboration and share solutions, incorporating cross‑functional perspectives to bridge gaps in information and drive product strategy
• Communication: Present work across levels and job functions using a human‑centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to articulate a compelling point of view that influences strategic decision‑making and direction at senior levels

• At least 5 years of experience in a Product Design role
• At least 5 years of experience in design and prototyping tools such as Figma

• 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
• Experience working with and contributing to an established design system
• Experience collaborating with product, tech and business partners
• Experience leading design projects or teams

• McLean, VA: $164,800 - $188,100 for Manager, Design
• New York, NY: $179,700 - $205,100 for Manager, Design

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well‑being.

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

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 applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.