About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead the technical roadmap for the Capital One Travel Core Platform Team. This is a hands-on, builder-focused role requiring a strong engineering background and the ability to influence stakeholders and drive product strategy. You will be responsible for centralizing the shared component library, enabling AI-driven front-end development, modernizing testing and deployment processes, and ensuring the platform is desirable for other teams to build upon. This role requires a deep understanding of engineering, design systems, AI tooling, and platform strategy, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive audiences.
Responsibilities
- Own the Platform Team's technical roadmap end-to-end, sequencing workstreams into a coherent, prioritized plan.
- Drive the centralization of the shared component library and migration of all Travel funnels onto it.
- Lead the AI-driven development unlock, including design-to-code mapping, component metadata for AI grounding, and CI guardrails.
- Modernize deployment, testing, and observability processes.
- Prototype and validate technical concepts rapidly using AI tools.
- Participate in architecture reviews and design-system working sessions as a credible technical peer.
- Manage the operating cadence, including stakeholder reviews and developer-experience surveys.
- Translate ambiguous mandates into clear technical requirements and a defensible sequence.
- Champion engineers and teams who build on and consume the platform, ensuring developer satisfaction and adoption.
Requirements
- Communication: Clearly articulates priorities, strategies, and tradeoffs to engineers and executives.
- Stakeholder Influence: Ability to gain partner team buy-in for long-term platform adoption.
- Technical Acumen: Deeply credible with engineering partners, comfortable in architectural discussions, and fluent in modern front-end platforms, design systems, CI/CD, and observability.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Thrives with limited information and a broad mandate, taking initiative and iterating toward clarity.
- Problem Solving: Drives toward solutions creatively in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
- Customer First: Understands and addresses the pain points of engineers and teams using the platform.
- Teamwork: Excellent collaborator across disciplines, operating with a community mindset.
- AI Fluency & Hands-On Prototyping: Direct experience using AI-powered development tools for prototyping and validation.
- Delivers Business Results: Focuses on key inputs, delivers with quality and timeliness, and optimizes for long-term business and customer value.
- Simplicity: Finds elegant, simple solutions to complex challenges.
- Design / UX Sensibility: Has an eye for good design and can reason about user experience.
Skills
- Product Management
- Technical Roadmap Ownership
- Stakeholder Management
- Influencing
- Engineering
- Design Systems
- AI Tooling
- Platform Strategy
- Front-end Development
- CI/CD
- Observability
- AI-powered development tools (Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Stitch by Google, or similar)
- Prototyping
- Validation
- Architecture Reviews
- Design System Working Sessions
- Agile Methodologies
- User Experience (UX)
- Wireframing
Location
- McLean, VA
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Manager
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field, Business or Marketing
- Master's Degree in a quantitative field, Business or Marketing
- Bachelor's degree in any field and at least 4 years of Product Management experience
Salary/Compensations
- McLean, VA: $200,700 - $229,100
- New York, NY: $219,000 - $249,900
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
About the Company
- Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to non-discrimination.
- Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.
Equal Opportunity
- Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- 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.
