Senior Director, Product Management - Auto - Internal Developer Platform

Capital One•Plano, TX

About The Position

Senior Director, Product Management - Auto - Internal Developer Platform 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. The Auto Garage is the innovation center for Capital One Auto, responsible for designing and incubating the foundational technologies and digital products that power our business. The Garage manages a diverse portfolio of high-priority initiatives ranging from reimagining the car-buying ecosystem to deploying advanced machine learning models. Central to these efforts is the team responsible for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and Experience (DevEx). This team owns the technical ecosystem that empowers our software and data engineering organizations to execute with maximum velocity. As the Senior Director, Product Management, you will play a key leadership role within this team, driving the product strategy to enhance our existing foundation and evolve our experience model into a world-class, seamless developer journey. The Successful Candidate Will: Lead the Product Evolution of the IDP: You will play a pivotal role in a team that owns the Internal Developer Platform. You will lead the shift from a tool-centric approach to a product-centric experience model, ensuring the platform is intuitive, self-service, and reduces complexity for both engineering and data organizations. Partner with Engineering Leadership: You will operate in a close partnership with Senior Engineering and Data leaders to co-manage the platform’s trajectory. Together, you will balance technical debt, architectural scalability, and the rollout of new features to ensure the platform remains stable, modular, and performant. Refine the Developer Experience (DevEx) Model: As a product leader on the team, you are the primary advocate for the internal customer. You will analyze the end-to-end experience to identify and eliminate friction points in the software and data lifecycles, transforming fragmented workflows into automated golden paths. Demonstrate a Passion for AI and Emerging Tech: You are a self-motivated advocate for the transformative power of AI. You have a genuine interest in how Generative AI and intelligent automation can be woven into the developer toolkit to remove friction, automate repetitive tasks, and scale the impact of the entire engineering organization. Unify Data and Software Engineering Workflows: You will ensure the team’s platform provides the specialized tooling, environment management, and self-service capabilities required by Data Engineers and MLEs. You will focus on creating a unified experience between core infrastructure and data pipelines to accelerate the deployment of intelligent models. Productize Platform Services: You treat integration architecture and cross-application data flows as core product services. You will refine our existing API patterns and service delivery to ensure all platform offerings are modular, discoverable, and provide a consistent foundation for decentralized teams. Communicate Technical Clarity and Precision: You possess the ability to think and speak about highly technical infrastructure problems with precision. You can effectively bridge the gap between engineering complexities and product outcomes, ensuring stakeholders are aligned on the roadmap for platform enhancements. Bridge Technical Depth with User Empathy: You blend a strong technical background with a customer-centric mindset. You possess genuine empathy for your users allowing you to evolve platform solutions that are high-performing, intuitive, and developer-friendly. Collaborate to Align High-Leverage Initiatives: You will build strong, trust-based partnerships with technical and product leaders across the organization. You excel at navigating a matrixed environment to align and prioritize the enhancements that move the needle for the broader developer community . Capital One Product Framework In this role, you’ll be expected to demonstrate proficiency in five key areas which we consider to be the foundation for successful Product management: Human Centered : Obsesses about internal and external customer needs to reimagine and innovate product solutions Business Focused : Delivers game-changing outcomes by focusing on leverage and execution excellence Technology Driven : Leverages technology to deliver innovative and resilient solutions that enable both near term and long term value Integrated Problem Solving : Identifies and resolves complex problems to deliver outcomes while mitigating product risks Transformational Leadership : Leads cross functional teams to solve customer problems and drive organizational alignment

Requirements

At least 9 years of experience working in Product Management
Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date: A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field)
A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) or a n MBA with a quantitative concentration