Manager, Content Design

Content Designer (Product Design)

(Manager Level - Individual Contributor)

Hybrid onsite - 3 days/wk in NY, McLean, or Richmond.

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We’re succeeding because they’re succeeding.                                               

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we’re on a quest to change banking for good.

We’re currently seeking a content designer to join our Experience Design team. We’re passionate about creating memorable, meaningful product experiences that build the Capital One brand with humanity and drive business advantage and innovation.

The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences. 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 a content designer, you’ll combine your craft expertise and leadership skills with an understanding of our customers and the business to co-create innovative solutions to complex problems and influence product strategy.

Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:

Content Design Expertise: Leverage your high degree of skill in writing and user experience design to craft compelling, accurate and accessible digital content experiences; use appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems to create artifacts that may include content audits, taxonomy and terminology lists, content guidelines and patterns, content governance models and microcopy for websites, user interfaces, emails, push notifications and chatbot responses that support end-to-end user flows

Leadership: Lead design projects, directing and delegating work for more junior team members and building strong partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders, while also mentoring and helping to mature the overall product design practice at Capital One

Human-Centered: Effectively navigate the needs of partners and stakeholders, leveraging critical-thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability and tech constraints, while ensuring the team focuses on customer-centered solutions and inclusive design

Business-Focused: Demonstrate proficiency with products and processes and apply relevant insights on customers, competitors and broader market trends to business challenges that shape a shared point of view for your team, partners and stakeholders

Problem-Solving: Demonstrate a solid understanding of tech, data capabilities and emerging technologies and use this knowledge to inform your work and help your cross-functional team move faster and navigate technical limitations in service of the impactful solutions

Collaboration: Leverage a rich network of partnerships across lines of business and the organization to foster collaboration and share solutions, incorporating cross-functional perspectives to bridge gaps in information

Communication: Present work across levels and job functions using a human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to articulate a compelling point of view that influences strategic decision-making and direction at senior levels

The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating your leadership, process, results and impact. 

Basic Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in content design, content strategy, or UX writing

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in content design, content strategy, or UX writing

• 5+ years of experience working with and contributing to an established design system

• 6+ years of experience collaborating with product, tech and business partners

• Experience leading design projects or teams

• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma

• Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces

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: $164,800 - $188,100 for Manager, Design

 

New York, NY: $179,700 - $205,100 for Manager, Design

 

Richmond, VA: $149,800 - $171,000 for 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.

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