Senior Associate - Product Designer (Premium)

Locations: VA - McLean, United States of America, McLean, VirginiaSenior Associate - Product Designer (Premium)What You’ll Do: 

You’ll be asked to handle a variety of responsibilities, including: 

Collaboration & Connection

• Collaborating with design, technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs, then translating them into engaging, simple, and intuitive design solutions and understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product interface and experience 

• Advocating for the customer through human centered design methods, including: discovery, research, ideation, whiteboard sessions, and user testing

• Supporting design-led workshops to engage and build alignment across different partners and teams

• Proactively offer recommendations and solutions by championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis

• Connecting with design community peers in service of learning, sharing, and teaching

• Working with partners and teams across various geographies

• Embracing and advocating for an experience mindset - this is as important to the work as the results

• Participating in hiring by reviewing resumes, conducting interviews and attending consensus

Discovery & Delivery

• Supporting early product definition by working with partners to participate in discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities

• Demonstrating familiarity with design and prototyping tools to deliver cutting edge interactive concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams

• Participate in end-to-end product design by:

  • Collaborating closely with fellow user experience designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to define, challenge and solve complex problems to enhance interactivity and delight users

  • Partnering closely with other designers to define and refine how our brand and interactions can be used to bring clarity, humanity, and inspiration to key moments in our digital customer experiences

  • Creating storyboards,  interaction models, prototypes, and narrative demos resulting in low to high fidelity prototypes

  • Designing within existing - and creating new - standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines for interaction + visual design for different devices (tablets, wearables, mobile, etc.) and platforms (such as web, Android, iOS, etc.)

  • Supporting effective storytelling and presentation of visual concepts to various stakeholders

  • Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues

  • Thinking systematically about creative problem-solving in order to scale your creative efforts to serve thousands of internal stakeholders and tens of millions of customers

  • Confidently communicating your decision-making and the ideas of the team to a broad audience of internal stakeholders, including presenting your creative work to company leadership

  • Managing and leading multiple high-stakes projects and deadlines efficiently and effectively within a fast-paced product environment

Basic Qualifications

• At least 2 years of commercial experience in UI/UX design, product design, interaction designer, or similar role

• A portfolio of work that demonstrates an intermediate level of understanding of Interaction and Visual Design in web or mobile experiences.

• Familiarity and experience working with design and prototyping tools, specifically Figma 

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience designing for iOS and Android mobile device experiences

• Previous experience working with Product and Tech partners

• Familiarity working with and contributing to internal toolkits, frameworks, and design systems

• Experience collaborating cross functionally between product design, engineering, and to ensure that brand experiences in product ship efficiently and with a high standard of quality

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.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $114,700 - $130,900 for Sr. Associate, 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.This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. 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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