Senior Associate, Product Management- Developer Tooling

Capital One•McLean, VA

About The Position

Product Management at Capital One is a booming, vibrant craft that requires reimagining the status quo, finding value creation opportunities, and driving innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology. We believe our portfolio of businesses and investments in growth and transformation will result in a company with the scale, brand, capabilities, talent, and values to succeed as the digital revolution transforms our society and our industry. Do you dream of well-designed and intuitive products and customer experiences? Do you want to be the one who introduces change to help tens of millions of customers make smarter financial choices? Do you want to change the way people manage their money? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then product management at Capital One may be a fit for you In this role, you’ll learn the essentials of being a product manager, and we’ll invest in you to grow in four key areas : Human Centered You’ll collaborate with tech teams to build comprehensive acceptance criteria, identifying and elevating any need for additional research to define future feature design You'll breakdown business epics into features and further into user stories, driving your team towards lowest effort or Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for a valid feature test Business Focused Demonstrating a growth mindset, you’ll effectively use hypothesis-driven assessment of data to ensure your product or feature delivers on real business needs You’ll own and prioritize feature development roadmaps, ensuring all necessary processes and procedures are followed to manage risk Technology Driven You’ll work autonomously in an agile environment, to conduct research and develop features that utilize new and evolving technology You’ll collaborate with designers, technologists, data scientists and subject-matter experts to build cutting edge solutions to help customers You’ll deliver well-managed product platforms for customers by seeking to understand technology trends and architecture strategy Transformational Leadership By actively participating in horizontal forums, you’ll harness a network of trusted relationships among tech teams, designers, key internal stakeholders and partner teams You’ll articulate a succinct product roadmap to deliver business value and share with with stakeholders, elevating your team’s results and becoming a product matter expert. As a Senior Associate Product Manager for Developer Tooling, you will define the internal experience for our engineering teams. Your primary mission is to empower developers to work faster and more effectively. A key part of this role is owning our context service, which provides engineers with the intelligent, real-time data they need to streamline their daily AI workflows. You will treat engineers as your customers, ensuring our platform is easy to use while maintaining the high security standards of a global bank. You will own the roadmap for our testing strategies and developer automation. Your goal is to champion engineering excellence by making testing a seamless, intelligent process rather than a manual hurdle. By leveraging AI, you will identify ways to embed smart automation into the development lifecycle, ensuring every feature is stable and high-quality before it reaches our customers. You will define success through improved developer productivity and tool adoption. Success in this role means acting as a bridge between technical infrastructure teams and product leadership. You will conduct regular research with engineers to find and fix the friction points that slow them down. You must be able to balance rapid innovation with a "well-managed" mindset, ensuring that risk and compliance requirements are built directly into our tools. Ultimately, you will empower our engineers to focus on building great products by providing them with the best possible tooling and context.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or military experience
At least 1 year of product management experience or at least 1 year of experience in product design, agile delivery, business analysis, data science, or software engineering
Intellectually Curious. You ask why, you explore, you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea or follow an email chain for weeks to find someone with an answer. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges
Communicator & Influencer. You can communicate complex ideas clearly regardless of your audience. Our team knows their priorities and why they’re doing what they’re doing. You always can rally associates to work with you
Do-er. You’re biased toward action, you try things and sometimes you fail. You can get around roadblocks and stay focused on your goals. You’re well organized, able to multitask and able to prioritize your work
Passionate & Customer Focus. You care about growing others and bringing them together around what’s possible. You get a thrill from the journey of building and shipping products, and you have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs
Learner. You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when the time comes to ask for help
Team Player. You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You have the ability to put the team before yourself and establish long-lasting relationships

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering
1+ years translating business strategy or analysis into consumer facing digital products
1+ years of experience working on core product platforms powering digital experiences
1+ years working with cross functional teams as a product owner in an agile development process

Responsibilities

Define the internal experience for our engineering teams.
Empower developers to work faster and more effectively.
Own our context service, which provides engineers with the intelligent, real-time data they need to streamline their daily AI workflows.
Treat engineers as your customers, ensuring our platform is easy to use while maintaining the high security standards of a global bank.
Own the roadmap for our testing strategies and developer automation.
Champion engineering excellence by making testing a seamless, intelligent process rather than a manual hurdle.
Leverage AI to identify ways to embed smart automation into the development lifecycle, ensuring every feature is stable and high-quality before it reaches our customers.
Define success through improved developer productivity and tool adoption.
Act as a bridge between technical infrastructure teams and product leadership.
Conduct regular research with engineers to find and fix the friction points that slow them down.
Balance rapid innovation with a "well-managed" mindset, ensuring that risk and compliance requirements are built directly into our tools.
Empower our engineers to focus on building great products by providing them with the best possible tooling and context.