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We’re currently seeking a Product Design Senior Director in our Conversational Platform, which is part of the Experience Design organization.
The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences and we are passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you’re a creative innovator who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we’d love to hear from you.
Role Expectations
As Senior Director of [team name], you’ll lead a talented, cross-disciplinary team of design leaders and designers, collaborate deeply with our research teams and Product and Tech leadership. You’ll be responsible for identifying and advocating for high-leverage opportunities with executive stakeholders and leading high-impact, highly complex design projects that set the bar for and drive experience excellence and business outcomes.
Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:
Product Design Expertise: Leverage established expertise and leadership in product design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One. Leveraging a variety of skills across interaction, visual and service design; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, help to oversee and optimize the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and enable your team to develop artifacts that may include vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes
Leadership: Build a thriving community of designers who are well supported, trained for excellence and able to collaborate with peers in multiple functions and set the vision and strategic direction for your team in close partnership with your cross-functional partners
Human-Centered: Recognize and pursue opportunities where customer needs and business goals coincide, while reinforcing with teammates and partners the importance of collecting and considering diverse customer perspectives throughout the design process
Business-Focused: Demonstrate a mastery of products, processes, customers, competitors and broader industry trends and apply this knowledge to predict shifts in these areas and shape how Design should engage, uncover and solve significant business challenges
Problem-Solving: Revels in the art of the possible, driving cross-functional groups in thinking creatively about potential solutions, illuminating potential pitfalls and fostering shared learnings; builds frameworks for complex decision-making that enable effective debate and accelerate getting to the right solutions
Collaboration: Connect the dots across the organization, proactively bringing together executive partners in ways that drive more coherent experiences, accelerate delivery and elevate the value of design
Communication: Present work to executive leaders and stakeholders, modeling a strategic human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to make the complex accessible, influence change and drive strategic direction
The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating your leadership, process, results and impact.
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 10 years of experience in leading product design teams and delivering products to market
- At least 3 years managing managers
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least 12 years of experience in leading product design teams and delivering products to market
- Experience in a design toolkit that spans product design, service design, design strategy and content design
- Deep experience leading product design teams operating across UX and UI, strategy, content, and research from strategy through delivery to market
- Deep experience partnering with product managers, engineers, marketing, and analytics leaders across multiple business lines to shape strategy, performance metrics, roadmaps, and operating models
- Deep experience interfacing with executive leadership to solve problems, influence key decisions, and drive results across strategy, design, roadmaps and investments
- Experience working within a design system
- Proficiency with web and mobile technologies and platforms, navigating technology considerations and constraints to drive sound product and experience decisions
- Expertise with design and prototyping tools such as Figma
- Experience managing an interdisciplinary design team
- Proficiency in business case development, grounding product and user experience decisions to business value
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and relationship building across complex organizations
- Exceptional people management and development skills
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer)
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: $269,600 - $307,700 for Sr. Director, DesignNew York, NY: $294,100 - $335,700 for Sr. Director, 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 Director, Product Design, Conversational PlatformWe’re currently seeking a Product Design Senior Director in our Conversational Platform, which is part of the Experience Design organization.
The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences and we are passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you’re a creative innovator who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we’d love to hear from you.
Role Expectations
As Senior Director of [team name], you’ll lead a talented, cross-disciplinary team of design leaders and designers, collaborate deeply with our research teams and Product and Tech leadership. You’ll be responsible for identifying and advocating for high-leverage opportunities with executive stakeholders and leading high-impact, highly complex design projects that set the bar for and drive experience excellence and business outcomes.
Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:
Product Design Expertise: Leverage established expertise and leadership in product design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One. Leveraging a variety of skills across interaction, visual and service design; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, help to oversee and optimize the use of appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and enable your team to develop artifacts that may include vision stories, journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes
Leadership: Build a thriving community of designers who are well supported, trained for excellence and able to collaborate with peers in multiple functions and set the vision and strategic direction for your team in close partnership with your cross-functional partners
Human-Centered: Recognize and pursue opportunities where customer needs and business goals coincide, while reinforcing with teammates and partners the importance of collecting and considering diverse customer perspectives throughout the design process
Business-Focused: Demonstrate a mastery of products, processes, customers, competitors and broader industry trends and apply this knowledge to predict shifts in these areas and shape how Design should engage, uncover and solve significant business challenges
Problem-Solving: Revels in the art of the possible, driving cross-functional groups in thinking creatively about potential solutions, illuminating potential pitfalls and fostering shared learnings; builds frameworks for complex decision-making that enable effective debate and accelerate getting to the right solutions
Collaboration: Connect the dots across the organization, proactively bringing together executive partners in ways that drive more coherent experiences, accelerate delivery and elevate the value of design
Communication: Present work to executive leaders and stakeholders, modeling a strategic human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to make the complex accessible, influence change and drive strategic direction
The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating your leadership, process, results and impact.
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 10 years of experience in leading product design teams and delivering products to market
- At least 3 years managing managers
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least 12 years of experience in leading product design teams and delivering products to market
- Experience in a design toolkit that spans product design, service design, design strategy and content design
- Deep experience leading product design teams operating across UX and UI, strategy, content, and research from strategy through delivery to market
- Deep experience partnering with product managers, engineers, marketing, and analytics leaders across multiple business lines to shape strategy, performance metrics, roadmaps, and operating models
- Deep experience interfacing with executive leadership to solve problems, influence key decisions, and drive results across strategy, design, roadmaps and investments
- Experience working within a design system
- Proficiency with web and mobile technologies and platforms, navigating technology considerations and constraints to drive sound product and experience decisions
- Expertise with design and prototyping tools such as Figma
- Experience managing an interdisciplinary design team
- Proficiency in business case development, grounding product and user experience decisions to business value
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and relationship building across complex organizations
- Exceptional people management and development skills
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer)
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: $269,600 - $307,700 for Sr. Director, DesignNew York, NY: $294,100 - $335,700 for Sr. Director, 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 Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior product design manager jobs.
- 7 or more years of product design experience with at least 2 years managing designers
- Proficiency in Figma including component libraries and design system maintenance
- Demonstrated experience shipping products at scale in a cross-functional agile environment
- Strong portfolio showing end-to-end product thinking and design leadership decisions
- Experience partnering with product management and engineering on roadmap planning
- Bachelor's degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction, or a related field
Tips for Your Senior Product Design Manager Job Search
Tailor your portfolio for leadership
Hiring managers at this level want to see how you shaped a team's design process, not just polished pixels. For each project, show the before state, your strategic decisions, and the measurable outcome your direction produced.
Quantify your team and scope
Listings for senior product design manager roles almost always specify team size and product surface. Match your resume to those signals by stating how many designers you managed, which product areas you owned, and the user scale you designed for.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists senior product design manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies in a design-scaling phase
Your chances improve at companies that recently raised funding, launched a design systems initiative, or posted multiple IC design roles at once. These signals mean they're building out a design org and actively need management layers, not just individual contributors.
Prepare a cross-functional influence story
Interviewers at this level probe how you aligned design with product and engineering when priorities conflicted. Prepare two or three concrete examples where you changed a roadmap decision or resolved a resource dispute through design rationale, not authority.
Negotiate scope before title or pay
At this seniority, the number of direct reports, product lines, and your seat in roadmap planning define the role more than the title does. In offer conversations, confirm reporting structure and decision rights before accepting so the job matches your growth goals.
Senior Product Design Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most senior product design managers?
The companies hiring the most senior product design managers right now include Amazon, Capital One, and Molex, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Technology and fintech companies consistently account for a large portion of active listings at this level.
How many senior product design manager jobs are remote?
About 62% of senior product design manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting steady demand for distributed design leadership. Roles focused on design systems, research operations, and platform-level strategy tend to be the most remote-friendly, while consumer product and hardware-adjacent roles more often require on-site presence.
How do you become a senior product design manager?
You typically start as a mid-level product designer, build a portfolio of shipped work across multiple product surfaces, then move into a lead or staff designer role where you informally mentor others. From there, taking a formal people management role over two or more designers and owning a product area end-to-end positions you for a senior product design manager title. Demonstrating impact on product direction, not just design quality, is what accelerates the transition.
Can you get hired as a senior product design manager with limited management experience?
It's possible if you can show leadership impact without a direct management title. Leading a design workstream, onboarding junior designers, running cross-functional design reviews, or owning a component of a design system all signal readiness. Targeting smaller companies or startups where the senior product design manager role includes building the design practice from scratch gives you the most realistic entry point without an extensive management history.
What does the senior product design manager interview process look like?
The process typically runs four to five stages: an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on your leadership style and career story, a portfolio review where you walk through two or three projects in depth, a cross-functional panel with product and engineering partners, and a final executive or VP-level interview. Some companies add a short take-home or live design critique exercise to assess how you give and receive feedback at a team level.
Where can I find and apply to senior product design manager jobs?
You can find and apply to senior product design manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Find roles that match your experience and apply directly to each listing.
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