UI/UX Product Designer
Vienna, VA

Job Description

Towers Crescent (12066), United States of America, Vienna, Virginia

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 are succeeding because they are 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 are on a quest to change banking for good.

UI/UX Product Designer

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 journey 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 are succeeding because they are 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.

As a User Experience Designer on the Integrated Experiences Design Team, you will work closely with other designers, strategists, developers, system architects, product managers, and business stakeholders to practice human-centered experience design that will help transform how our associates work..

About the role:

Designers at Capital One have a passion for solving complex problems. They are human-centered in their approach to design and feel comfortable advocating for user needs. They are curious and demonstrate a passion for learning. They are capable of generating ideas and prototyping concepts that are anchored in research insights, subject knowledge, technology requirements, and business goals. They have an exuberant passion for the power of strategic design and an "anything is possible" mindset. They take pride in their work and yet they have a humble approach. They are able to contribute as a designer from end-to-end on projects, which means they are comfortable as researchers, data scientists, strategists, and designers. They employ design thinking methods to uncover insights that help inform design decisions. They are excellent communicators and feel comfortable presenting their design decisions in front of colleagues and stakeholders.

In this role, you will be working closely with Product and Tech partners to strategize, design, and develop internal products that will integrate across our ecosystem. Your background in human-centered design will make you an advocate for our internal users as you iterate and test your concepts in a highly collaborative team environment.

A typical day in the life of a UX Designer at Capital One:

* Perform design research and create communication tools, such as journey maps, service blueprints, prototypes - whatever tool is right for the task at hand


* Collaborate with tech leads, product managers, developers, system architects, and design teams on research activities, strategy sessions, ideation, design, and testing of new product concepts


* Build empathy and be an advocate for our customers through participation in human-centered research and design


* Translate user needs, style guides, and requirements into elegant solutions for complex problems


* Meet with and have collaborative conversations with people across the org who come at experience design from different angles--like Risk, AI, Brand, Developer Platform, Tools, and more


* Leverage analytics tools to measure success, present opportunities, and support decision-making


* Utilize Lean and Agile methodologies


* Present research findings and design concepts to designers, product and tech partners


* Be a leader and mentor; you'll challenge, grow and mentor designers and contribute to fostering a collaborative team spirit



Basic qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree


* At least 5 years of experience with User Experience Design


* At least 5 years of experience working with Enterprise teams


* At least 1 year of experience using Sketch


* At least 3 years of experience with Adobe Creative Suite


* At least 1 year of experience with prototyping using tools such as InVision



Preferred qualifications:

* 2+ years of experience with Data Visualization


* 7+ years of experience with visual design


* 2+ years of experience with prototyping and using tools such as InVision


* 2+ years of agency experience


* Strong communicator and must be able to present ideas confidently


* Experience working closely with developers and system architects


* 1+ year of experience with Design Thinking, Lean UX, or similar framework that focuses on defining user needs early


* Professional experience with service design


* A strong understanding of or experience with Data Visualization


* Illustration


* Storyboarding


* Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS


* Basic knowledge JavaScript



At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.