Senior Associate, Product Manager- Pulse

Senior Associate, Product Manager- Pulse Product Management at Capital One is a booming, vibrant craft that requires reimagining the status quo, finding value creation opportunities, and driving innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology. We believe our portfolio of businesses and investments in growth and transformation will result in a company with the scale, brand, capabilities, talent, and values to succeed as the digital revolution transforms our society and our industry. Do you dream of well‑designed and intuitive products and customer experiences? Do you want to be the one who introduces change to help tens of millions of customers make smarter financial choices? Do you want to change the way people manage their money? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then product management at Capital One may be a fit for you. In this role, you’ll learn the essentials of being a product manager, and we’ll invest in you to grow in four key areas: Human Centered You’ll collaborate with tech teams to build comprehensive acceptance criteria, identifying and elevating any need for additional research to define future feature design. You’ll break down business epics into features and further into user stories, driving your team toward the lowest effort or Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for a valid feature test. Business Focused Demonstrating a growth mindset, you’ll effectively use hypothesis‑driven assessment of data to ensure your product or feature delivers on real business needs. You’ll own and prioritize feature development roadmaps, ensuring all necessary processes and procedures are followed to manage risk. Technology Driven You’ll work autonomously in an agile environment, conducting research and developing features that utilize new and evolving technology. You’ll collaborate with designers, technologists, data scientists and subject‑matter experts to build cutting‑edge solutions to help customers. You’ll deliver well‑managed product platforms for customers by seeking to understand technology trends and architecture strategy. Transformational Leadership By actively participating in horizontal forums, you’ll harness a network of trusted relationships among tech teams, designers, key internal stakeholders and partner teams. You’ll articulate a succinct product roadmap to deliver business value and share it with stakeholders, elevating your team’s results and becoming a product matter expert. The Team As a Pulse BOSS (Back Office, Settlements, and Security) product manager you improve and scale the foundational engine powering Capital One’s newly expanded debit network ecosystem. Covering virtually all functions after a successful card swipe, Team BOSS sits at the critical intersection of hundreds of financial card issuers and merchant acquirers. We are directly responsible for engineering and optimizing the core infrastructure that handles: Back Office: modernizing end‑to‑end issuer disputes and reporting, automating manual onboarding applications, and delivering high‑scale data analytics dashboards. Settlement: clearing, transaction‑level billing, and processing multi‑billion‑dollar interchange flows. Security: building and managing fraud scoring and rules systems that protect customers from fraud. You will have a direct role in minimizing payment transaction friction and maximizing operational reliability for our issuers—ensuring millions of real‑time transactions move safely and seamlessly. We want you if you are: Intellectually Curious – You ask why, you explore, you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea or follow an email chain for weeks to find someone with an answer. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn, and a seeker of new challenges. Communicator & Influencer – You can communicate complex ideas clearly regardless of your audience. Our team knows their priorities and why they’re doing what they’re doing. You always can rally associates to work with you. Do‑er – You’re biased toward action, you try things and sometimes you fail. You can get around roadblocks and stay focused on your goals. You’re well organized, able to multitask and able to prioritize your work. Passionate & Customer Focus – You care about growing others and bringing them together around what’s possible. You get a thrill from the journey of building and shipping products, and you have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs. Learner – You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when the time comes to ask for help. Team Player – You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You have the ability to put the team before yourself and establish long‑lasting relationships. Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree or military experience. At least 1 year of product management experience or at least 1 year of experience in product design, agile delivery, business analysis, data science, or software engineering. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering. 1+ years translating business strategy or analysis into consumer‑facing digital products. 1+ years of experience working on core product platforms powering digital experiences. 1+ years working with cross‑functional teams as a product owner in an agile development process. At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. Salary in Houston, TX: $101,100 – $115,400. Salary in McLean, VA: $111,200 – $126,900. Salary in Richmond, VA: $101,100 – $115,400. Salary in Riverwoods, IL: $101,100 – $115,400. 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. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Capital One National Association