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Director, Product Management roles are among the most sponsorship-friendly senior positions in tech, with many employers filing H-1B visa and O-1 visa petitions for qualified candidates. On OPT, you have up to 12 months of work authorization, with a 24-month STEM extension available if your undergraduate or graduate degree qualifies.
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As a Business Director at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You’ll team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Strategic leadership: Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory demands
- Leadership: May manage and develop multiple analysts. Coaching and mentoring associates with a goal of developing and retaining talent at Capital One
- Product: Develop and implement new product and pricing strategies for various lending products; lead product level data modeling/analytics
- Marketing: Lead direct-to-consumer marketing efforts for select products, and strategic intent for products distributed through the retail channel. Build targeted insights to inform the design and development of new customer experiences, as well as breakthrough technology and concepts designed to deliver on new go-to-market strategies
- Credit Risk: Drive step-change improvements in credit performance by connecting drivers of future consumer credit trends to historical behavior, creating risk models, and testing hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis
- Execution: Manage and sequence delivery of business intent, build business requirements and execute against the product strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently
- Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: IT, Sales, Operations, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability
- Strategic; analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management
- Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: They should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business
- Solid people leadership experience: Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise. They should foster innovation, drive critical decisions, hold business partners accountable, and be able to consistently deliver results
- Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Clear results orientation: display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. They should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment
- Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Previous consulting experience is a plus
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 4 years of experience performing quantitative analysis
- At least 4 years of experience performing qualitative analysis
- At least 2 years of experience performing people management
- At least 2 years of experience performing project management
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree
- 2+ years of experience in financial services
- 1+ year of experience in consulting
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position
COMPENSATION:
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The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
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Riverwoods, IL: $209,500 - $239,100 for Business Director
- Chicago, IL: $209,500 - $239,100 for Business Director
- New York, NY: $251,400 - $286,900 for Business Director
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com.
Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.
Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).
INTRODUCTION
As a Business Director at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You’ll team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Strategic leadership: Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory demands
- Leadership: May manage and develop multiple analysts. Coaching and mentoring associates with a goal of developing and retaining talent at Capital One
- Product: Develop and implement new product and pricing strategies for various lending products; lead product level data modeling/analytics
- Marketing: Lead direct-to-consumer marketing efforts for select products, and strategic intent for products distributed through the retail channel. Build targeted insights to inform the design and development of new customer experiences, as well as breakthrough technology and concepts designed to deliver on new go-to-market strategies
- Credit Risk: Drive step-change improvements in credit performance by connecting drivers of future consumer credit trends to historical behavior, creating risk models, and testing hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis
- Execution: Manage and sequence delivery of business intent, build business requirements and execute against the product strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently
- Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: IT, Sales, Operations, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability
- Strategic; analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management
- Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: They should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business
- Solid people leadership experience: Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise. They should foster innovation, drive critical decisions, hold business partners accountable, and be able to consistently deliver results
- Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Clear results orientation: display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. They should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment
- Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Previous consulting experience is a plus
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 4 years of experience performing quantitative analysis
- At least 4 years of experience performing qualitative analysis
- At least 2 years of experience performing people management
- At least 2 years of experience performing project management
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree
- 2+ years of experience in financial services
- 1+ year of experience in consulting
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position
COMPENSATION:
-
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
-
Riverwoods, IL: $209,500 - $239,100 for Business Director
- Chicago, IL: $209,500 - $239,100 for Business Director
- New York, NY: $251,400 - $286,900 for Business Director
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com.
Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.
Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Director, Product Management
Target companies with an active H-1B sponsorship history
Large tech companies and growth-stage startups with dedicated HR teams sponsor far more Director-level product roles than early-stage firms. Prioritize employers with a consistent track record of filing H-1B visa petitions for senior product leaders.
Lead with business impact, not feature ownership
Directors are evaluated on revenue growth, retention, and market expansion, not sprint output. Frame your experience around measurable outcomes: user growth percentages, ARR impact, or market share gains you directly influenced through product strategy.
Start the sponsorship conversation after an offer, not before
Raising visa status in early interviews can disqualify you before employers assess your value. Secure the offer first, then confirm your OPT timeline and transition plan. Most companies willing to hire Directors will engage on sponsorship at that stage.
Use your STEM OPT extension window strategically
If your degree qualifies, a STEM extension gives you 36 months total on OPT. That window covers two H-1B lottery cycles, significantly improving your odds of obtaining cap-subject H-1B status while you continue working full time.
Demonstrate cross-functional leadership credentials clearly
Director roles require managing engineers, designers, and data teams simultaneously. Highlight experience leading multi-disciplinary squads, resolving prioritization conflicts, and aligning roadmaps with executive strategy. This distinguishes you from senior PMs who haven't made that leap.
Position yourself for O-1A if H-1B sponsorship stalls
Directors who have spoken at industry conferences, published product thinking, or received peer recognition may qualify for the O-1A extraordinary ability visa. This path bypasses the lottery entirely and is worth discussing with an immigration attorney early.
Director, Product Management OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as a Director of Product Management on F-1 OPT?
Yes. F-1 OPT authorizes full-time employment in any role directly related to your field of study, and product management consistently qualifies under business, computer science, and engineering degrees. Your EAD card serves as work authorization, and no additional employer filing is required during the OPT period itself.
Do Director-level product roles typically lead to H-1B sponsorship?
Director of Product Management qualifies as a specialty occupation under H-1B rules because the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field. Companies hiring at the Director level have typically already invested in your candidacy and are more likely to sponsor than those hiring for entry-level positions. The main variable is employer size and HR infrastructure.
How does OPT authorization work if I switch employers at the Director level?
Your EAD is not employer-specific, so you can change employers freely during your OPT period without filing anything new. The key requirement is that every role must be directly related to your degree field. If you are on a STEM OPT extension, you must report the employer change to your DSO within 10 days and update your I-983 training plan with the new employer.
Where can I find Director of Product Management jobs that are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate is the most effective platform for OPT students targeting senior roles like Director of Product Management. The job board surfaces roles from employers with active visa sponsorship histories, so you can focus your effort on companies that have already demonstrated willingness to hire and sponsor international talent at this level.
Is a Director of Product Management role considered a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Generally yes. USCIS evaluates specialty occupation status on the specific job duties and degree requirements in the offer letter, not the title alone. A Director of Product Management role that requires a degree in computer science, engineering, or business and involves strategic product decision-making has consistently been approved. Roles where any bachelor's degree satisfies the requirement, regardless of field, face greater scrutiny.