Senior Associate, Product Manager - Business Cards & Payments

Capital One•McLean, VA

2d•$101,100 - $138,400

About The Position

Business Cards & Payments (BC&P) | Build the Future. At BC&P, we bring a builder's mindset to work, just like the business owners we serve. Small businesses are a different kind of customer. They're the people turning ideas into opportunities, and opportunities into livelihoods. When we build for them, we build something bigger. That's why we have a high bar for quality. We own the work end to end, turning today's insights into tomorrow's results, together. We're relentlessly curious. We ask the hard questions. We make space for the best ideas to win Because that's how we create impact we can be proud of. We are looking for a Product Manager with a demonstrated interest and aptitude for Al. While formal on-the-job experience with Al is a plus, we highly value candidates who have proactively incorporated Al into their personal projects, explored Al-driven development environments (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot), or built automations using Al agents. Show us how you've used Al to learn, build, and solve problems beyond basic text generation. 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
Demonstrated interest and aptitude for AI
Proactively incorporated AI into personal projects, explored AI-driven development environments (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot), or built automations using AI agents
Intellectually Curious: Ask why, explore, not afraid to blurt out crazy ideas 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: Can communicate complex ideas clearly regardless of audience. Team knows priorities and why they’re doing what they’re doing. Can rally associates to work with you
Do-er: Biased toward action, tries things and sometimes fails. Can get around roadblocks and stay focused on goals. Well organized, able to multitask and able to prioritize work
Passionate & Customer Focus: Cares about growing others and bringing them together around what’s possible. Gets a thrill from the journey of building and shipping products, and has a desire and ability to connect with external or internal customers to fully understand their needs
Learner: Appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when the time comes to ask for help
Team Player: Enjoys working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. Ability to put the team before yourself and establish long-lasting relationships

Nice To Haves

Formal on-the-job experience with AI
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, harnessing 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