Senior Manager, Product Management - Platform Interface & Standards

Capital One•McLean, VA

About The Position

Capital One is a high-tech company, a scientific laboratory, and a nationally recognized brand all in one reaching tens of millions of consumers. We are a passionate and entrepreneurial team embracing bold ideas, fostering collaboration and delivering great experiences for our customers. Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (C.O.R.E.) is at the heart of our approach. CORE delivers foundational infrastructure and a common developer experience enabling Capital One to thrive in the cloud. To accelerate emerging business needs that leverage new cloud technologies and ML/AI capabilities. We are focused on our polycloud enablement strategy to support Generative AI exploration, and other emerging business initiatives across Capital One. This work is core to Capital One’s mission, changing banking for good! About the Team The Managed Infrastructure team is dedicated to empowering developers by centralizing and automating the entire infrastructure lifecycle. Our mission is to evolve the cloud experience beyond federated self-service into a fully managed, intent-driven platform. This strategic shift eliminates operational toil, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise operations. As the Senior Product Manager, Platform Interface & Standards, you will serve as the primary architect for the "handshake" between our cloud infrastructure and the broader enterprise ecosystem. You will sit at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, security, and developer productivity. You are responsible for productizing the interfaces—including APIs, schemas, and software contracts—that allow developers to interact with the Managed Infrastructure Layer transparently.

Requirements

At least 5 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) or 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 an MBA with a quantitative concentration
Cloud Enthusiast: has expertise in, or are excited about, cloud services experience
Excellent at communications: understands the importance of storytelling and are growing this craft
Excited by new technology: you use it, you learn new tech, ideally in your past you built it.
Energized by engaging with engineers: they are your users, you bring empathy and understanding to the challenges they face day in and day out
Product management expert: building product strategies, operationalizing product metrics, building business cases and impactful features and products
Comfortable working in the gray space: you are comfortable working through ambiguity and the change management that comes with it
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.You have strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
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
Understanding of cloud infrastructure well architected frameworks
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - certification or extensive experience in AWS

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary architect for the "handshake" between our cloud infrastructure and the broader enterprise ecosystem.
Sit at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, security, and developer productivity.
Responsible for productizing the interfaces—including APIs, schemas, and software contracts—that allow developers to interact with the Managed Infrastructure Layer transparently.
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.
Demonstrate a growth mindset - effectively use hypothesis-driven assessment of data to ensure your product or feature delivers on real business needs.
Support in prioritizing feature development roadmaps, ensuring all necessary processes and procedures are followed to manage risk.
Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners.
Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding.
Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that improve customer experience and drive Product growth by aligning it to Capital One’s mission.
Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact.
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.