Director, Product Management, Finance Product & Data Solutions

Director, Product Management, Finance Product & Data Solutions

Do you want to be part of a team transforming an entire department by discovering business needs, uncovering where value lies, and working with technology, design, subject-matter experts, and finance professionals to create optimal product and platform solutions? Do you want to help lead the creation and growth of an empowered new product management team? Does the idea of seeing your impact directly with internal customers excite you? If so, we want you!

Our product team is part of a larger group focused on the transformation of Finance at Capital One. A key priority is creating automated reconciliation and accounting close processes to reduce manual work and enable associates to consume and leverage streaming, enriched data. This will involve streamlining overall financial experiences including our month end close process, reporting and data needs.

The Director, Product Management is a unique and high profile role that is responsible for discovering, delivering and optimizing products and capabilities that fundamentally transform how our Finance Associates work and enable us to deliver valuable insights using modernized technologies and core data services. In addition to your contributions on overall portfolio and product strategies, you'll also play a key role in building our Product Management organization. You'll help shape our culture and our people, provide mentorship for your teammates and be an ambassador for Product Management and for the On Demand Finance Transformation team.

As the Director, Product Management, you will:

• Establish the vision, strategy, and execution of Finance products and services through understanding of the strategic Finance direction and technology architecture and big picture business needs.
• Create frameworks for and directly manage the prioritization of the work, capabilities, components, and infrastructures that are used by multiple customer solutions and customer facing products.
• Confidently communicate and evangelize product and portfolio strategy across large organizations and executives to influence stakeholders to align behind the objectives.
• Create and provide frameworks for regularly and systematically using data to uncover opportunities, track product performance, and drive decision making.
• Prioritize, negotiate and remove blockers to orchestrate successful launch or optimization cycles.
• Inspire, enable and empower teams to execute with a sense of urgency to deliver solutions and on priorities.
• Influence cross-department agendas proactively to deliver outcomes while balancing short and long term objectives.
• Serve as a thought leader, contributing practitioner, career guide, and mentor to your teams.
• Be a systems thinker that understands and actively manages operational risk.
• Have the ability to build Product sequencing frameworks for product migrations.

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience in and passion for ideating, building and implementing great digital products.
• Experience in organizational change management including transforming and improving ways of working and interaction models.
• Deep knowledge of the Product Management discipline and experience in building and maturing Product teams.
• Strong ability to set a vision and lead, develop and inspire teams to develop innovative products that have high adoption and drive value for internal customers.
• Exceptional communication skills -- an engaging storyteller at ease presenting to executives.
• Creative problem solver who provides leadership at the intersection of the human, business and technology dimensions.
• Blend of both strategic and tactical thinking -- someone who can identify and prioritize opportunities in highly ambiguous contexts, and then organize work in deep detail; aligning long term vision with iterative execution.
• Aptitude to champion strategic technology initiatives to leap-frog current constraints and deliver transformational value.
• Strong quantitative background to support data-informed decision making.
• Collaborative, team player attitude with the ability to navigate and influence the organization.
• Superior problem-solving skills with strong strategic, white-spacing thinking.
• Inspiring people leader.
• Experience with Merger and Acquisition and/or Transformational/complex change leadership including testing phases.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of Process and Program Management including best practices and modelling.

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 7 years of experience working in Product Management.
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
• A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field)
• A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration
• At least 3 years of experience managing people.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products.
• 3+ years of Agile Product Management experience.
• 3+ years of Program Management experience.
• 3+ years of Project Management experience.

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 the Capital 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.