Senior Associate, Product Management - Engineering Team

Senior Associate, Product Management – Engineering 360 Team

Product Management at Capital One is a vibrant craft that reimagines the status quo, seeks value creation, and drives innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology. Our portfolio of businesses and growth investments position us to thrive as the digital revolution transforms the industry.

The Engineering 360 Product Management Team is a core pillar of how the company builds and delivers software, focusing on our rapidly growing Card business. We build products, services, and tooling to enable faster, scalable, stable, and well-managed delivery. Product managers on this team navigate technical concepts like Site Reliability Engineering, Test Automation, Continuous Deployment, and overall Developer Experience.

As a Senior Associate Product Manager, you will drive the future of our internal engineering products. You will own the near‑term roadmap for key features and capabilities, acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME). This role blends strategic thinking, technical fluency, and cross‑functional partnership to deliver transformative business outcomes. You will use data and analytical storytelling to demonstrate progress, identify risks, and communicate opportunities.

• Own the Feature Roadmap and Delivery: Manage the entire product development process, including backlog management, story documentation, grooming, and prioritization to ensure features deliver on critical business outcomes.

• Define Data Strategy and Intelligence: Establish a core data strategy for your product area, ensuring consistency, reliability, and scalability while synthesizing test results for compelling business recommendations.

• Drive Engineering Team Partnership: Translate user feedback into clear, well‑defined business epics, stories, and acceptance criteria, partnering closely with tech to research and explore new technical approaches.

• Champion Enterprise
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work across organizational boundaries to align with partner team roadmaps, reduce duplication, and share insights that may impact teams outside your immediate focus.

• Problem Solving and Insights: Challenge problem statements, test assumptions, and develop counter‑arguments, applying strong judgment to solve specific problems and inform product strategy.

• Human Centered
  • Collaborate with tech teams to build comprehensive acceptance criteria and elevate research needs.
  • Break down business epics into features and user stories, driving teams toward lowest effort or Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Business Focused
  • Use hypothesis‑driven data assessment to ensure products deliver real business value.
  • Own and prioritize feature roadmaps, following processes and procedures to manage risk.
• Technology Driven
  • Work autonomously in an agile environment to research and develop technology‑enabled features.
  • Collaborate with designers, technologists, data scientists, and SMEs to build cutting‑edge solutions for customers.
  • Deliver well‑managed product platforms by understanding technology trends and architecture strategy.
• Transformational Leadership
  • Participate in horizontal forums to build trusted relationships among tech teams, designers, and stakeholders.
  • Articulate a concise product roadmap, share it with stakeholders, and elevate team results as a product matter expert.

• Intellectually Curious – Ask why, explore, embrace ambiguity, and pursue new challenges.
• Communicator & Influencer – Convey complex ideas clearly to any audience and rally associates to collaborate.
• Do‑er – Bias toward action, overcome roadblocks, prioritize work, and manage multiple tasks efficiently.
• Passionate & Customer Focused – Drive builders’ thrill, understand customer needs, and build products that delight users.
• Learner – Appetite for new technologies, humility to ask for help, and continuous improvement mindset.
• Team Player – Work with diverse people, put the team first, and build lasting relationships.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience.
• At least 1 year of product management experience or equivalent…