Senior Associate, Product Management - NPSL Data & Decisioning (Business Cards & Payments)

Capital One • McLean, VA

6d

About The Position

The Data & Decisioning tower is part of the Small Business Card Customer Management Product team, and is responsible for driving backend spending capabilities for all of our products. This is critical, particularly for our No Preset Spend Limit products (NPSL), where there is no traditional credit limit. Our products help small businesses spend what they need, while still protecting the company from risk. We use cutting edge technology and real-time data to provide a seamless spend experience. We seek a product manager to lead the strategy and execution for our core data changes and ensure timely delivery and communication to relevant stakeholders.This role is crucial for linking business needs with technical implementation, ensuring the data is accurate, robust, and supports NPSL capabilities. 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

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 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

• Demonstrated interest and aptitude for AI
• Formal on-the-job experience with AI
• Proactively incorporated AI into personal projects
• Explored AI-driven development environments (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot)
• Built automations using AI agents
• 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

• Collaborate with tech teams to build comprehensive acceptance criteria, identifying and elevating any need for additional research to define future feature design
• 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
• Effectively use hypothesis-driven assessment of data to ensure your product or feature delivers on real business needs
• Own and prioritize feature development roadmaps, ensuring all necessary processes and procedures are followed to manage risk
• Work autonomously in an agile environment, to conduct research and develop features that utilize new and evolving technology
• Collaborate with designers, technologists, data scientists and subject-matter experts to build cutting edge solutions to help customers
• Deliver well-managed product platforms for customers by seeking to understand technology trends and architecture strategy
• Actively participate in horizontal forums, harness a network of trusted relationships among tech teams, designers, key internal stakeholders and partner teams
• Articulate a succinct product roadmap to deliver business value and share with stakeholders, elevating your team’s results and becoming a product matter expert

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: Senior