Senior Manager, Product Management – Core Platform

Overview

Senior Manager, Product Management – Core Platform | Capital One Travel

Senior Manager, Product Management (PXDP55)

We are in search of a Senior Technical Product Manager to personal the technical roadmap for the Capital One Travel Core Platform Team — the workforce that builds the foundational tooling each Travel expertise is constructed on. This is a deeply technical, builder-minded position. We are in search of a former engineer: somebody who has shipped software program end-to-end, has lived the complete arc from design to deployment, and now desires to drive that work as a product chief fairly than execute it ticket by ticket.

The Platform Team’s mandate is broad. We centralize the shared part library that renders the manufacturing expertise throughout all six Travel funnels; we unlock AI-driven front-end growth by wiring design-to-code mapping, part metadata, and CI guardrails; we modernize how we check, deploy, launch, and observe; and we make the platform one thing different groups genuinely wish to construct on. You will personal the roadmap that ties these workstreams collectively and switch a set of scattered tech-debt initiatives right into a coherent, sequenced program with measurable outcomes.

This position sits on the intersection of engineering, design methods, AI tooling, and platform technique. You will associate intently with engineering management, design, and the funnel and company groups that rely upon the platform, translating a technical mandate right into a roadmap, a cadence, and shipped outcomes. You will run quarterly stakeholder evaluations, personal the placemat, and be the one that can sit in an structure evaluate and an govt narrative session on the identical day and be credible in each.

We are constructing in an AI-first atmosphere, and we anticipate this individual to be a hands-on practitioner — not somebody who talks about AI, however somebody who actively makes use of AI instruments to prototype, validate, and speed up growth.

What You’ll Do

• Own the Platform Team’s technical roadmap end-to-end — from discovery by way of supply — sequencing the part library, AI enablement, deployment/observability, and developer-experience workstreams into one coherent, prioritized plan.

• Drive the centralization of the shared part library (tokens, primitives, wrapped elements, Storybook, Figma integration) and the migration of all Travel funnels onto it, holding the road on the goal of manufacturing DOM rendered from the library.

• Lead the AI-driven growth unlock: design-to-code mapping, part metadata for AI grounding, and ESLint/CI guardrails that forestall shadow elements — the stipulations that transfer AI front-end reuse from near-zero to the vast majority of scaffolded work.

• Modernize deployment, testing, and observability — test-strategy and protection compliance, regression-test automation, feature-flag and A/B automation, and proactive monitoring (RUM, crash detection, session replay).

• Prototype and validate technical ideas quickly utilizing AI instruments corresponding to Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Stitch by Google, or equal AI-assisted growth environments — and assist form how the workforce makes use of autonomous and semi-autonomous AI workflows.

• Sit in structure evaluations and design-system working classes as a reputable technical peer, in a position to cause about tradeoffs, dependencies, and sequencing fairly than relaying them.

• Run the working cadence: quarterly stakeholder evaluations, the platform placemat, onboarding kits and migration guides per instrument, and developer-experience surveys with closed-loop follow-through.

• Translate an ambiguous, broad mandate into clear technical necessities and a defensible sequence, working with minimal data and iterating as you be taught.

• Champion the engineers who construct on the platform and the groups who eat it, guaranteeing developer satisfaction and adoption are handled as first-class outcomes — not afterthoughts.

What We’re Looking For

• Engineering Background. A former software program engineer who has personally shipped manufacturing software program and skilled the complete lifecycle — design, construct, check, deploy, function. You do not simply perceive engineering; you’ve got completed it, and engineers deal with you as one in all their very own.

• Technical Acumen. Deeply credible with engineering companions. Comfortable in architectural discussions, in a position to consider technical tradeoffs first-hand, and fluent in trendy front-end platforms, design methods, CI/CD, and observability.

• AI Fluency & Hands-On Prototyping. Direct, hands-on expertise utilizing AI-powered growth instruments — particularly Claude Code, Claude Cowork, or comparable platforms (e.g., Stitch by Google) — to prototype and validate concepts. Comfortable working in an AI agent atmosphere the place autonomous workflows are a part of the toolkit.

• Delivers Business Results. Focuses on the important thing inputs and delivers them with the appropriate high quality and in a well timed trend. Comfortable proudly owning a technical roadmap and making tradeoffs that optimize for long-term platform worth.

• Problem Solving. Drives towards options in a considerate, artistic method. Can navigate a fancy, multi-stakeholder, multi-team atmosphere and discover the trail ahead.

• Dealing with Ambiguity.Thrives with restricted data and a broad mandate. Takes initiative, frames issues with out there context, and iterates towards readability and sequence.

• Customer First. Treats the engineers who construct on the platform and the groups who eat it as clients — deeply understands their ache factors and displays them in each roadmap determination.

• Teamwork. Excellent collaborator throughout engineering, design, information, and product. Puts the workforce earlier than the person and operates with a group mindset.

• Simplicity.Finds elegant, easy options to advanced technical and organizational challenges. Resists over-engineering.

• Communication. Clearly articulates priorities, methods, and tradeoffs to each engineers and executives — concise, direct, and actionable.

• Design / UX Sensibility. Has a watch for good design and might wireframe and cause about person expertise with confidence, given the position’s proximity to the design system.

Capital One Product Framework

In this position, you’ll be anticipated to reveal proficiency in 5 key areas which we contemplate to be the muse for profitable Product administration:

• Human Centered– Obsesses about inside and exterior buyer must reimagine and innovate product options

• Business Focused – Delivers game-changing outcomes by specializing in leverage and execution excellence

• Technology Driven – Leverages expertise to ship progressive and resilient options that allow each close to time period and long run worth

• Integrated Problem Solving– Identifies and resolves advanced issues to ship outcomes whereas mitigating product dangers 

• Transformational Leadership – Leads cross useful groups to resolve buyer issues and drive organizational alignment

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of expertise working in Product Management

• Currently has, or is within the means of acquiring one of many following with an expectation that the required diploma will probably be obtained on or earlier than the scheduled begin date: 

  • A Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative area (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a associated quantitative area)

  • A Master’s Degree in a quantitative area (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a associated quantitative area) or an MBA with a quantitative focus

Preferred Qualifications:

At this time, Capital One won’t sponsor a brand new applicant for employment authorization for this place.

The minimal and most full-time annual salaries for this position are listed beneath, by location. Please be aware that this wage data is solely for candidates employed to carry out work inside one in all these places, and refers back to the quantity Capital One is keen to pay on the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will probably be prorated based mostly upon the agreed upon variety of hours to be commonly labored.

McLean, VA: $200,700 – $229,100 for Sr. Mgr, Product ManagementNew York, NY: $219,000 – $249,900 for Sr. Mgr, Product ManagementRichmond, VA: $182,500 – $208,300 for Sr. Mgr, Product Management

Candidates employed to work in different places will probably be topic to the pay vary related to that location, and the precise annualized wage quantity provided to any candidate on the time of rent will probably be mirrored solely within the candidate’s provide letter.

This position can also be eligible to earn efficiency based mostly incentive compensation, which can embody money bonus(es) and/or long run incentives (LTI). Incentives could possibly be discretionary or non discretionary relying on the plan.

Capital One provides a complete, aggressive, and inclusive set of well being, monetary and different advantages that assist your complete well-being. Learn extra on theCapital One Careers web site. Eligibility varies based mostly on full or part-time standing, exempt or non-exempt standing, and administration stage.

This position is anticipated to just accept purposes for no less than 5 enterprise days.No companies please. Capital One is an equal alternative employer (EOE, together with incapacity/vet) dedicated to non-discrimination in compliance with relevant federal, state, and native legal guidelines. Capital One promotes a drug-free office. Capital One will contemplate for employment certified candidates with a prison historical past in a fashion per the necessities of relevant legal guidelines concerning prison background inquiries, together with, to the extent relevant, 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 different relevant federal, state, and native legal guidelines and rules concerning prison background inquiries.

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