Manager, Design Researcher

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Plano, TX
Hybrid
Senior level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
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The Role
The Manager, Design Researcher at Capital One leads design research efforts within Associate Experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define research needs, prioritize activities, and synthesize existing insights. This role also mentors junior team members while emphasizing human-centered design and problem-solving to influence actionable insights.
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Plano Town Center (31064), United States of America, Plano, Texas
Manager, Design Researcher
Manager, Design Researcher
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.
Capital One's Experience Design organization is focused on co-creating memorable, meaningful customer and associate experiences that build our brand with humanity and drive business advantage. The goal of Experience Design Research is to accelerate teams' learning velocity. We do this by conducting primary research studies, assessments, and testing. Additionally, we oversee democratized research/testing conducted by others. A key aspect of our role is to find and synthesize existing research and data to help teams acquire the knowledge they seek to make informed decisions.
Role Overview
As the Design Research leader in Associate Experiences, you are responsible for collaborating with product managers, designers, and engineers to articulate learning needs, learning agendas, and research roadmaps. You track research questions and insights within your portfolio. You are well connected to and understand the tower's strategy and needs in order to prioritize research activities including primary research, knowledge mapping, assessments, and testing. You maintain a close relationship to research peers across the line of business to identify opportunities to re-use learnings and collaborate on research that can serve multiple lines of business.
Responsibilities

  • Research Expertise: Enabling focus and expectations for design research practice across cross functional portfolio and accelerates learning velocity


  • Leadership: Leads design projects, directing and delegating work for more junior team members while also mentoring & helping to mature the overall research practice at Capital One.
  • Human-Centered: Effectively navigates the needs of partners and stakeholders, leveraging critical-thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability and tech constraints that deliver meaningful, actionable insights and tracking how we influence insights-to-action.


  • Business-Focused: Demonstrates 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 their team, partners and stakeholders
  • Problem-Solving: Has a solid understanding of tech, data capabilities and emerging technologies and uses this knowledge to inform their work and help their cross-functional team move faster and navigate technical limitations in service of the impactful solutions


  • Collaboration: Leverages 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: Presents 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


Basic Qualifications

  • 7+ years conducting research in large, corporate enterprises
  • Previous hands-on experience includes: conducting quant and/or qual primary research, data analysis (survey data, behavioral analytics, etc.)


Preferred Qualifications

  • 10+ years managing research in large, corporate enterprises
  • Exceptional business communications (verbal and written)
  • Proven ability to influence executives


At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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 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.
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 [email protected] . 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 [email protected]
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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Year Founded: 1994

What We Do

At Capital One, we think and work like a tech company, using our digital fluency to transform everything about the customer experience. We’re bending data to our will, and turning a stodgy industry on its head. That’s reflected in our ranking as the number one business technology innovator in the U.S. in the 2016 InformationWeek Elite 100.

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Here’s another question: What are you looking for? A place where curiosity is the starting point? Where data leads to human insights? Where humanity drives product development? We’re bringing breakthrough products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients. And each new idea makes life better for millions of people.

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