Director, Research and User Intelligence, Premium and Travel

Capital One • McLean, VA

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About The Position

Director, Research and User Intelligence, Premium and Travel Capital One’s Experience Design (XD) organization is focused on co-creating memorable, meaningful customer and associate experiences that build our brand with humanity and drive business advantage. The goal of Experience Design Research (XDR) is to accelerate teams’ learning velocity – providing product teams with the user knowledge they need to design and deliver useful and usable experiences. You will provide learning velocity through a structured and systems-oriented combination of primary research, quantitative analysis, and various data inputs – creating cumulative user intelligence. You will also configure agentic models to enable rapid concept testing, usability testing, and in-market assessments. You will partner closely with product and design stakeholders to ensure their learning needs are met and high-quality decisions are being made that benefit both the customer and the business. Role Expectations This leadership role requires mastery in human factors, digital product design, and quantitative data analysis. You have deep experience in triangulating, analyzing, and extracting insights from various sources of quantitative and qualitative data. Our Premium Products and Experiences team defines the gold standard for Capital One’s high-spender customer ecosystem, crafting personalized, high-stakes experiences that integrate seamlessly into our customers' lives. We are seeking a Research and User Intelligence Leader to oversee the end to end experience across our Travel, Concierge, Benefits, and Spend ecosystem. As the leader of this portfolio, you will set the insights direction that propels these experiences into their next frontier, delivering full-scale, industry-leading lifestyle products.

Requirements

• At least 5 Years in User Experience Research, Data Science, Customer Experience, or Product Management
• At least 5 years of experience aggregating, collecting, and analyzing quantitative data
• At least 2 years managing researchers, analysts, or data scientists
• At least 1 year experience leveraging AI tools (Gemini, NotebookLM) to accelerate insight creation

Nice To Haves

• 7+ Years in User Experience Research, Data Science, Customer Experience, orf Product Management
• 7+ years of experience aggregating, collecting, and analyzing quantitative data
• 5+ years managing researchers, analysts, or data scientists
• Expertise developing AI-enabled continuous discovery tools/programs
• Experience extracting insights from synthetic data/personas and building automated research workflows.
• Experience with performance management, career coaching, and attracting/hiring top talent.
• Exceptional communication skills; ability to influence senior executives
• Expertise in Human Factors, Statistics, Computer science, HCI, Psychology, Sociology, Information/Systems Architecture, Data Science, or Behavioral Economics

Responsibilities

• Build cumulative user intelligence: Generate, curate, feed, and maintain user intelligence to inform product and experience strategy
• Create and maintain research and testing agents: Configure agents to extract insights from existing intelligence, conduct interviews, and conduct testing of concepts, experience prototypes, and live experiences
• Build and maintain continuous discovery program: Make real and synthetic users available to product teams for discovery purposes.
• Enable Experience Measurement: Partner with CX teams and designers to establish domain-specific experience metrics, ensure instrumentation, develop dashboards, and conduct analysis to determine critical correlations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed