Manager, Content Design at Capital_One — Richmond, VA

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

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