What are the responsibilities and job description for the Experience Designer/Researcher position at Capital One?
Are you an Experience Designer looking for a new challenge? Are you looking for an opportunity to grow in visual design, interaction design, customer research and influence product strategy? Do you want to transform an industry centered around how people find and finance cars? Then Capital One may just be the right place for you.
At Capital One, we think big and do big things. Today we are a high-tech company, an innovation laboratory, and a nationally recognized brand that reaches tens of millions of consumers. We are a passionate and entrepreneurial team that embraces bold ideas, fosters collaboration, and delivers great consumer experiences. It’s audacious work at a massive scale. As a team, we come to work every day looking to build digital experiences that are authentic and bold.
What you’ll do
Work within our top of house end to end team to influence and identify needs in connecting experiences across divisions
Research, explore and document the insights, reasoning and decisions that validate our approach to the final product or experience
Map experiences of users, product offerings and services across the business to identify and communicate key opportunities that could improve our customer experience
Instill experience teams with the confidence and discipline to explore innovative design solutions while balancing deadlines
Work closely with researchers, design leads and product partners to define and communicate people’s needs
Apply problem-solving skills to analyze situations, identify existing or potential problems and recommend solutions
Specifically, you will
Collaborate and create visual representations of service maps, ecosystem maps, user journey maps and/or other research artifact that communicates a cohesive strategy
Establish relationships and liaison with key stakeholders throughout project lifecycles
Advocate for creating an end-to-end experience and be the voice of our customer in our product development process
Develop and maintain artifacts that express humanity, simplicity and ingenuity
Use customer-driven insights and agile methodologies to deliver elegant and delightful customer experiences
Develop, organize and facilitate research and/or ideation brainstorming and work sessions (either individually or with teams)
Participate in delivery of a range of projects, defining project scope, goals and deliverables in collaboration with key stakeholders
Help set future visions for experiences that inspire and connect people
Partner with design leads and researchers to influence design vision strategy and connect outcomes to the big picture
Create and deliver UX/UI design documentation to aid with cross-team communication, collaboration and development
Visualize complex sets of data in ways that are easy to comprehend
What you’ll bring:
You will need to have a strong background in program management and an ability to take an idea and break it out into specific steps, timelines and roadmaps.
An ability to influence others and communicate complex ideas or strategies is critical since this role will be working in new spaces or untapped areas of opportunities
You are comfortable thinking end-to-end, with an ability to see the high level view as well as a detailed view.
Experience working with multiple stakeholders’ interests, priorities and expectations
You can approach things systematically and have a natural ability to zoom out to see big pictures, then dive into the details that are important. You get joy out of seeing projects through.
You easily communicate and envision service concepts and design strategies to team members, partners and stakeholders. You can use a diverse set of methods and tools that illustrate the components and touchpoint across services.
You will need to be able to understand and analyze how all aspects of a service integrate and impact each other in the context of a larger experience ecosystem. Being a visual storyteller, with the chops to design concepts is something you love to do.
Working with our product teams, you’ll need to identify opportunities and uncover untapped needs through customer research and interaction data
You possess the ability to deliver on those insights by driving product vision and strategy to position our digital products alongside our core financial products
You have experience crafting project vision, execution strategy and building relationships
You are experienced in the end-to-end design process, balancing customer insights and business goals
Basic Qualifications:
At least 5 years’ experience as a UX Designer
At least 5 years’ experience in qualitative and quantitative research
At least 5 years experience working in cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelors in Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Behavioral Science, or Psychology
5 years of UX Design experience
5 years of UX research experience in a corporate or consulting capacity
5 years of experience working on consumer and mobile products
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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