Director, Product Management, DevX - API Platforms

Director, Product Management, DevX - API Platforms

Capital One is a high-tech company, a scientific laboratory, and a nationally recognized brand all-in-one, reaching tens of millions of consumers. As a Developer Experiences organization, we obsess over building amazing solutions for our developer community and measure ourselves by how well we unblock developers to do their best work, and by extension, how satisfied they are in doing their work. This team leads our API ecosystem and associated developer platforms. APIs form a critical building block for developing software, from customer applications, to real-time financial decisioning, to machine learning and AI. We aren't exaggerating when we say that we touch every part of Capital One!

Given their importance, our API platforms are also a critical control point in managing API traffic within and across the enterprise and help protect against malicious actors or even accidental data leakage. This role will have general PM responsibility for all aspects of API management within Capital One, setting the standard for application integration excellence across the enterprise. We're passionate about building platform software for the next generation of developers at Capital One and are looking for someone excited to build lovable yet bulletproof solutions at scale. This work is core to Capital One's mission to change banking for good!

This role advocates for the needs of the developer and the business. You will be responsible for identifying our highest leverage opportunities and ensuring our roadmaps are optimized to meet these business outcomes. The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about technology and deeply empathizes with internal and external customer needs, and is comfortable in conversation with engineering teams as well as stakeholders ranging from data scientists to senior business leaders.

Successful candidates will also demonstrate :

• Technical knowledge necessary to propose and influence new product and feature ideas, especially in the space of enterprise-scale APIs, balancing developer enablement with governing and securing the API ecosystems.
• Experience forming business strategy and translating it into enterprise-grade software solutions.
• Strong understanding of API and cloud operations, with the ability to articulate the opportunities and trade offs across an API management ecosystem.
• Keen awareness of the latest developments, trends, and best practices in API management and application integration, with an incessant interest in understanding and adopting the latest innovations in the space.
• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment.
• Analytical and quantitative skills; experience using hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring, empowering, and elevating product teams to deliver against business objectives and roadmaps.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior executives.
• Strong work ethic as team player and a willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job done.

As part of the Director, Product Management - API Platforms role, you will :

Capital One Product Framework

In this role, you'll be expected to demonstrate proficiency in five key areas which we consider to be the foundation for successful Product management :

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

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

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.

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.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.