Manager, Project Manager - AI Transformation & Delivery

Capital One • Richmond, VA

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Capital One is seeking a forward-thinking, dynamic, and insightful Manager to join their Finance Integrated Program & Delivery (FIPD) team. This role will lead high-impact strategic initiatives transforming how work is done in Finance, serving as a central point of orchestration for a portfolio of high-priority, complex initiatives. The position will bring structure, discipline, and a holistic Finance perspective to work spanning multiple teams, stakeholders, and priorities, ensuring leaders have clear visibility into progress, required decisions, and potential impacts on delivery. A key aspect of this role involves accelerating AI adoption within the team by understanding existing processes, identifying AI opportunities for value creation, and translating these into actionable use cases. The successful candidate will operate beyond traditional project management, understanding the broader business context, anticipating future needs, challenging teams when appropriate, and translating complex information into clear recommendations for senior leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Military experience
• At least 5 years of Project Management or Program Management experience, including experience leading business transformation projects

Nice To Haves

• Masters / MBA degree
• Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies in a technical or data-driven environment
• SAFe certification
• Experience with AI or GenAI-enabled projects, including familiarity with risk governance or AI model lifecycle management
• Strong familiarity with Finance/Accounting operations and the challenges of legacy data ecosystems
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive consensus across disparate teams (e.g., Business, Tech, Risk, Data)

Responsibilities

• Develop concise, decision-oriented updates for senior leaders on progress, emerging issues, key decisions, and areas requiring intervention.
• Own and drive clear, consistent, and timely communications across the portfolio, translating complex program information into audience-appropriate messaging.
• Identify connections, overlaps, competing priorities, and opportunities across initiatives to ensure work is managed through an enterprise lens.
• Identify risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, and potential delivery challenges early, driving mitigation plans and escalating issues.
• Establish clear mechanisms for capturing decisions, identifying owners, defining required inputs, and ensuring decisions are made at the appropriate level and translated into action.
• Translate strategic priorities into executable plans, helping teams move from broad objectives to defined outcomes, workstreams, milestones, and measurable success criteria.
• Anticipate upcoming needs, decisions, risks, and organizational impacts to help leadership stay multiple steps ahead.
• Develop a strong understanding of current processes and workflows to proactively identify opportunities where AI can simplify work, automate activities, improve insights, or enhance operations.
• Partner with team members to evaluate, prioritize, and advance high-value AI opportunities from idea through implementation.
• Provide critical visibility into the AI portfolio using standardized reporting to track adoption, resource demand, and project health, replacing manual reporting with self-service tools.
• Evaluate current work management practices and introduce new tools, AI capabilities, automation, and operating practices to make program delivery faster, simpler, and more effective.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
• Eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager