Senior Associate, Product Management - Prometheus Financial Core (PFC)

Capital One • McLean, VA

5d

About The Position

As a Senior Associate, Product Manager, you will be at the forefront of defining what high availability looks like for a cloud-native bank. We focus on the "well-managed" aspect of our infrastructure, ensuring that as we scale, our stability scales with us. You will own the roadmap for Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), specifically focusing on Availability and Resilience. This role requires a blend of technical curiosity and product rigor; you will partner with Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Architects to ensure our platforms can withstand systemic shocks while maintaining peak performance for our customers.

Requirements

• An Execution-Oriented Manager: Someone who thrives in the details of the product lifecycle—managing a backlog, writing crisp acceptance criteria, and helping a tech team clear hurdles.
• Technical Curiosity: You are excited by high-stakes horizontal work. You should be excited to learn about distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and how things break (and how to fix them).
• An Advocate for Quality: You believe that a feature isn't "done" until it is proven to be stable and scalable. You have a keen eye for detail and a passion for preventing bad outcomes for customers before they happen.
• 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
• 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

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

• Own the Resilience Roadmap: You will lead the near-term roadmap for resilience capabilities. You will act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for NFR standards across your platform area.
• Define Availability Standards: Support the definition and implementation of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets. You will work with engineering partners to ensure these aren't just metrics on a dashboard, but actionable drivers of the product development lifecycle.
• Drive Engineering Partnership: Serve as the bridge between business intent and technical implementation. You will translate complex resilience needs into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring that "resilience by design" is baked into every feature we ship.
• Stakeholder & Risk Management: Partner across organizational boundaries with Risk, Cyber, and Line of Business (LOB) stakeholders to align on uptime requirements and mitigation strategies. You will use data-driven storytelling to communicate platform health and the business impact of resilience investments.
• Problem Solving & Insights: Leverage data to identify potential single points of failure and advocate for architectural improvements. You will stay ahead of the curve on industry trends in cloud reliability to ensure Capital One remains a leader in platform stability.

What This Job Offers

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