Research Manager Jobs in Virginia
Research Manager jobs in Virginia are in strong demand, concentrated in defense and national security contracting, biomedical and life sciences, public policy, and higher education, with openings at every level from early-career research coordinators to senior research directors. The heaviest hiring is in the Northern Virginia corridor, Richmond, and the Hampton Roads area, where major employers such as Leidos, Inova Health System, and George Mason University maintain a lasting presence. The most sought-after specializations include quantitative research methods, program evaluation, and clinical or health services research. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Senior Manager, Research & User Intelligence (Individual contributor)
This is a Hybrid position, 3 days/wk onsite.
Summary:
Capital One’s Experience Design (XD) organization is focused on co-creating memorable, meaningful customer and associate experiences that build our brand with humanity and drive business advantage. As the Senior Manager of Research & User Intelligence for a product tower, you are responsible for accelerating learning velocity by defining and executing research programs that generate actionable insights to inform the creation of useful and usable solutions.
Role Expectations:
The XD Research organization is seeking a Senior Manager of Design Research who can enter complex product domains—ranging from deep technical infrastructure and data-heavy platforms to front-end consumer applications—and quickly anchor the product roadmap in human-centered insights. In this role, you are expected to provide a rigorous, behavioral lens to technically dense or abstract problem spaces by conducting multi-method research with diverse cohorts of internal associates, enterprise users, and retail customers. This is an individual contributor role that requires a mastery of human factors, digital product design, information architecture, interaction design principles, product development lifecycle, qualitative and quantitative research methods, data analysis and triangulation, user experience metrics, and research platforms.
The ideal candidate is a clarifier with deep experience navigating ambiguity, quickly building systemic mental models of new product spaces, and establishing research programs that scale. You possess a proactive, consultative approach to cross-functional partnerships, balancing deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative data triangulation with a fast-moving operational mindset.
Responsibilities:
- Optimize and Scale Cumulative User Intelligence: Plan and conduct connected studies and establish data acquisition mechanisms that contribute to a collective body of user intelligence that fuels product teams’ planning and decision-making, while maintaining a high degree of governance and risk compliance
- Prioritize and lead rapid testing within the product development lifecycle: Create and evolve research agents and research platforms to accelerate learning velocity: extracting insights from existing intelligence repositories, conducting rapid discovery, concept, content, and usability testing
- Manage and Maintain Continuous Discovery Programming: Drive collaboration with research ops to enable partner teams to access their users to maximize empathy and understanding
- Support UX Measurement and Hypothesis-driven Design: Partner with CX, data scientists, analysts, and designers to identify and track domain-specific UX metrics. Assist in developing mechanisms to collect/measure UX metrics, conduct analysis using UX and other metrics to identify critical correlations between user behavior and business success.
- Conduct and Socialize Data Triangulation & Synthesis: Utilize behavioral analytics, quantitative data, and qualitative insights to produce actionable insights. Establish channels to socialize learnings to stakeholders in order to drive impact.
Leadership Competencies
- Problem Solving: Designs scalable frameworks and vision-backed learning agendas to prioritize high-impact problems across multiple domains; leverages technical and data fluency to navigate complex trade-offs and drive innovative, customer-centric solutions that maximize business value
- Judgment: Prioritizes high-leverage opportunities and eliminates duplicative work to scale impact across the organization; guides teams through ambiguity with empathy while maintaining focus on clear business priorities and consistent delivery
- Influence: Acts as a trusted strategic advisor, leveraging deep expertise and cross-functional partnerships to influence senior-level decision-making and drive the adoption of human-centered strategies in service of high-stakes business outcomes
- Teamwork: Collaborates broadly, and contributes regularly to internal knowledge platforms and events; proactively and effectively aligns work to business needs, focusing on shared goals over their own agenda
- Communication: Translates complex data and behavioral findings into compelling narratives for senior stakeholders; ensures clarity in two-way dialogue across functions
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 4 years of professional experience in User Experience Research, Data Science, or Customer Experience Research
- At least 4 years of experience aggregating, collecting, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data
- At least 3 years of experience autonomously leading multi-stakeholder projects or research programs
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in User Intelligence, Human Factors, or behavioral data analysis.
- Background in leading research in enterprise settings
- History of leading small to medium teams of researchers
- Experience conducting structured, quantitative jobs-to-be-done studies
- Experience leveraging AI tools (Gemini, Claude, NotebookLM) to accelerate insight creation
- Experience building automated research workflows with AI tools
- Proven track record of triangulating multiple data sources (behavioral analytics, survey data, and primary research) to inform product roadmaps.
- Advanced degree in Human Factors, HCI, Statistics, Data Science, or Behavioral Economics.
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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.
McLean, VA: $200,700 - $229,100 for Sr. Manager, DesignNew York, NY: $219,000 - $249,900 for Sr. Manager, Design
Richmond, VA: $182,500 - $208,300 for Sr. Manager, Design
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).
Senior Manager, Research & User IntelligenceSenior Manager, Research & User Intelligence (Individual contributor)
This is a Hybrid position, 3 days/wk onsite.
Summary:
Capital One’s Experience Design (XD) organization is focused on co-creating memorable, meaningful customer and associate experiences that build our brand with humanity and drive business advantage. As the Senior Manager of Research & User Intelligence for a product tower, you are responsible for accelerating learning velocity by defining and executing research programs that generate actionable insights to inform the creation of useful and usable solutions.
Role Expectations:
The XD Research organization is seeking a Senior Manager of Design Research who can enter complex product domains—ranging from deep technical infrastructure and data-heavy platforms to front-end consumer applications—and quickly anchor the product roadmap in human-centered insights. In this role, you are expected to provide a rigorous, behavioral lens to technically dense or abstract problem spaces by conducting multi-method research with diverse cohorts of internal associates, enterprise users, and retail customers. This is an individual contributor role that requires a mastery of human factors, digital product design, information architecture, interaction design principles, product development lifecycle, qualitative and quantitative research methods, data analysis and triangulation, user experience metrics, and research platforms.
The ideal candidate is a clarifier with deep experience navigating ambiguity, quickly building systemic mental models of new product spaces, and establishing research programs that scale. You possess a proactive, consultative approach to cross-functional partnerships, balancing deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative data triangulation with a fast-moving operational mindset.
Responsibilities:
- Optimize and Scale Cumulative User Intelligence: Plan and conduct connected studies and establish data acquisition mechanisms that contribute to a collective body of user intelligence that fuels product teams’ planning and decision-making, while maintaining a high degree of governance and risk compliance
- Prioritize and lead rapid testing within the product development lifecycle: Create and evolve research agents and research platforms to accelerate learning velocity: extracting insights from existing intelligence repositories, conducting rapid discovery, concept, content, and usability testing
- Manage and Maintain Continuous Discovery Programming: Drive collaboration with research ops to enable partner teams to access their users to maximize empathy and understanding
- Support UX Measurement and Hypothesis-driven Design: Partner with CX, data scientists, analysts, and designers to identify and track domain-specific UX metrics. Assist in developing mechanisms to collect/measure UX metrics, conduct analysis using UX and other metrics to identify critical correlations between user behavior and business success.
- Conduct and Socialize Data Triangulation & Synthesis: Utilize behavioral analytics, quantitative data, and qualitative insights to produce actionable insights. Establish channels to socialize learnings to stakeholders in order to drive impact.
Leadership Competencies
- Problem Solving: Designs scalable frameworks and vision-backed learning agendas to prioritize high-impact problems across multiple domains; leverages technical and data fluency to navigate complex trade-offs and drive innovative, customer-centric solutions that maximize business value
- Judgment: Prioritizes high-leverage opportunities and eliminates duplicative work to scale impact across the organization; guides teams through ambiguity with empathy while maintaining focus on clear business priorities and consistent delivery
- Influence: Acts as a trusted strategic advisor, leveraging deep expertise and cross-functional partnerships to influence senior-level decision-making and drive the adoption of human-centered strategies in service of high-stakes business outcomes
- Teamwork: Collaborates broadly, and contributes regularly to internal knowledge platforms and events; proactively and effectively aligns work to business needs, focusing on shared goals over their own agenda
- Communication: Translates complex data and behavioral findings into compelling narratives for senior stakeholders; ensures clarity in two-way dialogue across functions
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 4 years of professional experience in User Experience Research, Data Science, or Customer Experience Research
- At least 4 years of experience aggregating, collecting, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data
- At least 3 years of experience autonomously leading multi-stakeholder projects or research programs
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in User Intelligence, Human Factors, or behavioral data analysis.
- Background in leading research in enterprise settings
- History of leading small to medium teams of researchers
- Experience conducting structured, quantitative jobs-to-be-done studies
- Experience leveraging AI tools (Gemini, Claude, NotebookLM) to accelerate insight creation
- Experience building automated research workflows with AI tools
- Proven track record of triangulating multiple data sources (behavioral analytics, survey data, and primary research) to inform product roadmaps.
- Advanced degree in Human Factors, HCI, Statistics, Data Science, or Behavioral Economics.
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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.
McLean, VA: $200,700 - $229,100 for Sr. Manager, DesignNew York, NY: $219,000 - $249,900 for Sr. Manager, Design
Richmond, VA: $182,500 - $208,300 for Sr. Manager, Design
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).
Senior Manager, Research & User Intelligence (Individual contributor)
This is a Hybrid position, 3 days/wk onsite.
Summary:
Capital One’s Experience Design (XD) organization is focused on co-creating memorable, meaningful customer and associate experiences that build our brand with humanity and drive business advantage. As the Senior Manager of Research & User Intelligence for a product tower, you are responsible for accelerating learning velocity by defining and executing research programs that generate actionable insights to inform the creation of useful and usable solutions.
Role Expectations:
The XD Research organization is seeking a Senior Manager of Design Research who can enter complex product domains—ranging from deep technical infrastructure and data-heavy platforms to front-end consumer applications—and quickly anchor the product roadmap in human-centered insights. In this role, you are expected to provide a rigorous, behavioral lens to technically dense or abstract problem spaces by conducting multi-method research with diverse cohorts of internal associates, enterprise users, and retail customers. This is an individual contributor role that requires a mastery of human factors, digital product design, information architecture, interaction design principles, product development lifecycle, qualitative and quantitative research methods, data analysis and triangulation, user experience metrics, and research platforms.
The ideal candidate is a clarifier with deep experience navigating ambiguity, quickly building systemic mental models of new product spaces, and establishing research programs that scale. You possess a proactive, consultative approach to cross-functional partnerships, balancing deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative data triangulation with a fast-moving operational mindset.
Responsibilities:
- Optimize and Scale Cumulative User Intelligence: Plan and conduct connected studies and establish data acquisition mechanisms that contribute to a collective body of user intelligence that fuels product teams’ planning and decision-making, while maintaining a high degree of governance and risk compliance
- Prioritize and lead rapid testing within the product development lifecycle: Create and evolve research agents and research platforms to accelerate learning velocity: extracting insights from existing intelligence repositories, conducting rapid discovery, concept, content, and usability testing
- Manage and Maintain Continuous Discovery Programming: Drive collaboration with research ops to enable partner teams to access their users to maximize empathy and understanding
- Support UX Measurement and Hypothesis-driven Design: Partner with CX, data scientists, analysts, and designers to identify and track domain-specific UX metrics. Assist in developing mechanisms to collect/measure UX metrics, conduct analysis using UX and other metrics to identify critical correlations between user behavior and business success.
- Conduct and Socialize Data Triangulation & Synthesis: Utilize behavioral analytics, quantitative data, and qualitative insights to produce actionable insights. Establish channels to socialize learnings to stakeholders in order to drive impact.
Leadership Competencies
- Problem Solving: Designs scalable frameworks and vision-backed learning agendas to prioritize high-impact problems across multiple domains; leverages technical and data fluency to navigate complex trade-offs and drive innovative, customer-centric solutions that maximize business value
- Judgment: Prioritizes high-leverage opportunities and eliminates duplicative work to scale impact across the organization; guides teams through ambiguity with empathy while maintaining focus on clear business priorities and consistent delivery
- Influence: Acts as a trusted strategic advisor, leveraging deep expertise and cross-functional partnerships to influence senior-level decision-making and drive the adoption of human-centered strategies in service of high-stakes business outcomes
- Teamwork: Collaborates broadly, and contributes regularly to internal knowledge platforms and events; proactively and effectively aligns work to business needs, focusing on shared goals over their own agenda
- Communication: Translates complex data and behavioral findings into compelling narratives for senior stakeholders; ensures clarity in two-way dialogue across functions
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 4 years of professional experience in User Experience Research, Data Science, or Customer Experience Research
- At least 4 years of experience aggregating, collecting, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data
- At least 3 years of experience autonomously leading multi-stakeholder projects or research programs
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in User Intelligence, Human Factors, or behavioral data analysis.
- Background in leading research in enterprise settings
- History of leading small to medium teams of researchers
- Experience conducting structured, quantitative jobs-to-be-done studies
- Experience leveraging AI tools (Gemini, Claude, NotebookLM) to accelerate insight creation
- Experience building automated research workflows with AI tools
- Proven track record of triangulating multiple data sources (behavioral analytics, survey data, and primary research) to inform product roadmaps.
- Advanced degree in Human Factors, HCI, Statistics, Data Science, or Behavioral Economics.
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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.
McLean, VA: $200,700 - $229,100 for Sr. Manager, DesignNew York, NY: $219,000 - $249,900 for Sr. Manager, Design
Richmond, VA: $182,500 - $208,300 for Sr. Manager, Design
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).
Senior Manager, Research & User IntelligenceSenior Manager, Research & User Intelligence (Individual contributor)
This is a Hybrid position, 3 days/wk onsite.
Summary:
Capital One’s Experience Design (XD) organization is focused on co-creating memorable, meaningful customer and associate experiences that build our brand with humanity and drive business advantage. As the Senior Manager of Research & User Intelligence for a product tower, you are responsible for accelerating learning velocity by defining and executing research programs that generate actionable insights to inform the creation of useful and usable solutions.
Role Expectations:
The XD Research organization is seeking a Senior Manager of Design Research who can enter complex product domains—ranging from deep technical infrastructure and data-heavy platforms to front-end consumer applications—and quickly anchor the product roadmap in human-centered insights. In this role, you are expected to provide a rigorous, behavioral lens to technically dense or abstract problem spaces by conducting multi-method research with diverse cohorts of internal associates, enterprise users, and retail customers. This is an individual contributor role that requires a mastery of human factors, digital product design, information architecture, interaction design principles, product development lifecycle, qualitative and quantitative research methods, data analysis and triangulation, user experience metrics, and research platforms.
The ideal candidate is a clarifier with deep experience navigating ambiguity, quickly building systemic mental models of new product spaces, and establishing research programs that scale. You possess a proactive, consultative approach to cross-functional partnerships, balancing deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative data triangulation with a fast-moving operational mindset.
Responsibilities:
- Optimize and Scale Cumulative User Intelligence: Plan and conduct connected studies and establish data acquisition mechanisms that contribute to a collective body of user intelligence that fuels product teams’ planning and decision-making, while maintaining a high degree of governance and risk compliance
- Prioritize and lead rapid testing within the product development lifecycle: Create and evolve research agents and research platforms to accelerate learning velocity: extracting insights from existing intelligence repositories, conducting rapid discovery, concept, content, and usability testing
- Manage and Maintain Continuous Discovery Programming: Drive collaboration with research ops to enable partner teams to access their users to maximize empathy and understanding
- Support UX Measurement and Hypothesis-driven Design: Partner with CX, data scientists, analysts, and designers to identify and track domain-specific UX metrics. Assist in developing mechanisms to collect/measure UX metrics, conduct analysis using UX and other metrics to identify critical correlations between user behavior and business success.
- Conduct and Socialize Data Triangulation & Synthesis: Utilize behavioral analytics, quantitative data, and qualitative insights to produce actionable insights. Establish channels to socialize learnings to stakeholders in order to drive impact.
Leadership Competencies
- Problem Solving: Designs scalable frameworks and vision-backed learning agendas to prioritize high-impact problems across multiple domains; leverages technical and data fluency to navigate complex trade-offs and drive innovative, customer-centric solutions that maximize business value
- Judgment: Prioritizes high-leverage opportunities and eliminates duplicative work to scale impact across the organization; guides teams through ambiguity with empathy while maintaining focus on clear business priorities and consistent delivery
- Influence: Acts as a trusted strategic advisor, leveraging deep expertise and cross-functional partnerships to influence senior-level decision-making and drive the adoption of human-centered strategies in service of high-stakes business outcomes
- Teamwork: Collaborates broadly, and contributes regularly to internal knowledge platforms and events; proactively and effectively aligns work to business needs, focusing on shared goals over their own agenda
- Communication: Translates complex data and behavioral findings into compelling narratives for senior stakeholders; ensures clarity in two-way dialogue across functions
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 4 years of professional experience in User Experience Research, Data Science, or Customer Experience Research
- At least 4 years of experience aggregating, collecting, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data
- At least 3 years of experience autonomously leading multi-stakeholder projects or research programs
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in User Intelligence, Human Factors, or behavioral data analysis.
- Background in leading research in enterprise settings
- History of leading small to medium teams of researchers
- Experience conducting structured, quantitative jobs-to-be-done studies
- Experience leveraging AI tools (Gemini, Claude, NotebookLM) to accelerate insight creation
- Experience building automated research workflows with AI tools
- Proven track record of triangulating multiple data sources (behavioral analytics, survey data, and primary research) to inform product roadmaps.
- Advanced degree in Human Factors, HCI, Statistics, Data Science, or Behavioral Economics.
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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.
McLean, VA: $200,700 - $229,100 for Sr. Manager, DesignNew York, NY: $219,000 - $249,900 for Sr. Manager, Design
Richmond, VA: $182,500 - $208,300 for Sr. Manager, Design
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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What Virginia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in research manager jobs across Virginia.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant research field required by most Virginia employers
- Demonstrated experience designing and managing research projects from inception to completion
- Proficiency in statistical analysis software such as SAS, SPSS, R, or Python
- Experience supervising research staff, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, or managing junior analysts
- Familiarity with federal research compliance, IRB protocols, or government contract requirements
- Strong written communication skills for producing research reports, grant applications, or policy briefs
Research Manager Jobs in Virginia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a research manager in Virginia?
Research manager roles in Virginia do not require a state-issued license, but most employers expect a master's degree or higher in a relevant discipline such as public policy, health sciences, social science, or a STEM field. Virginia's large base of federal contractors and research universities means hiring managers also value demonstrated project leadership, familiarity with federal research compliance standards, and experience working within structured research environments typical of government-funded programs.
How much do research managers make in Virginia?
Research managers in Virginia earn a median of about $150,570 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $84,080 for the lowest 10% to over $212,620 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire research managers in Virginia?
Employers hiring research managers in Virginia right now include University of Virginia, Capital One, and Information Technology Senior Management Forum, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Virginia's dense concentration of federal agencies and defense contractors in the Northern Virginia area means a significant portion of these openings are tied to government-funded research programs and long-term contract work.
Which Virginia cities have the most research manager jobs?
McLean, Arlington, and Charlottesville have the most research manager openings in Virginia. Northern Virginia cities like Arlington and McLean lead because of the concentration of federal agencies and defense contractors headquartered there, while Richmond draws openings from Virginia Commonwealth University's health and policy research programs, and Hampton Roads benefits from military research institutions and naval facilities driving sustained demand.
Are there remote research manager jobs in Virginia?
Yes, and more than many comparable management roles, since research managers often work primarily with data, reports, and distributed teams rather than on-site lab or field settings. About 67% of research manager openings tied to Virginia are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting broader flexibility in the field. Roles focused on data analysis, literature synthesis, and program evaluation tend to be the most remote-eligible, while positions requiring direct supervision of laboratory or field research are more likely to require an in-person presence.
How can I get hired as a research manager in Virginia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is securing a research coordinator or research analyst position first, then building toward management. Virginia employers such as Inova Health System, MITRE, and Virginia Commonwealth University regularly hire research associates and program analysts who can grow into managerial roles. Graduate assistantships at Virginia's research universities provide structured experience, and earning a project management credential or completing IRB training gives candidates a concrete advantage when applying to supervisory-track openings.
Where can I find and apply to research manager jobs in Virginia?
You can find and apply to research manager jobs in Virginia on Migrate Mate, which lists current Virginia openings updated in real time. Search the available roles, identify the ones that match your background and target industry, and apply directly to each position that fits.
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