Principal Associate, Experience Designer

Principal Associate, Experience Designer

Plano, TX

time type

Full time

job requisition id

R195418

 

This is a Hybrid position located in Plano, TX. Relocation to Plano, TX is required if you're not located in the Dallas, TX area.

 

The Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you’re an innovator and storyteller who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we would love to hear from you. 

 

We are currently seeking Experience Designers to closely collaborate with groups of technical software architects, engineers, product managers, and customer success teams to thoughtfully translate complex flows or processes into simple solutions that are easy to use. 

 

Examples include building applications and products that facilitate marketing and analytical solutions in support of Car Dealerships and their business.

 

Regardless of the project you would be working on, our ideal candidate has designed apps and/or software - at scale - and understands the different approach and mindset required to create applications compared to simple websites. Extra points to someone who understands what it takes to develop applications, and has had some experience writing code themselves. 

 

What You’ll Do: 

You’ll be asked to handle a variety of responsibilities, including: 

 

Key Responsibilities

• Simplifying and translating complex business and software development workflows into easy-to-use experiences for a technical audience

• Collaborating with enterprise partners to create new interface and interactions patterns

• Creating consistent visual conventions across the application

• Working closely with product and customer success teams to gather and incorporate user feedback and feature requests into the interface

• Identifying and establishing design needs, requirements, and acceptance criteria

 

Collaboration & Connection

• Collaborating with software architects and engineers, product managers, and research teams to uncover customer and business needs - then translating them into intuitive and engaging digital experiences

• Participating in translating complex ideas into understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product interface

• Advocating for the customer through human centered design methodologies, including: discovery, ideation, sketch sessions, and user testing

• Supporting design led workshops to engage and build alignment across different partners and teams

• Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis

• Connecting with design community peers by learning, sharing, and teaching

• Participating in hiring by reviewing resumes, conducting interviews and attending consensus

 

Discovery & Delivery

• Supporting early product definition by working with partners to facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities 

• Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams

• Contributing to style guides, iconography, and infographics that can be leveraged by teams

• Participating in end-to-end product design by:

  • Working with researchers to understand customer needs and interpreting information into visual forms that are impactful and intuitive

  • Framing problems, determining insights, and defining visual designs to serve customer needs

  • Ideating, sketching, and delivering low to high fidelity prototypes

  • Designing within existing - and creating new - standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines

  • Storytelling and presenting visual concepts to various stakeholders

  • Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues

 

Basic Qualifications

 

At least 4 years of experience in User Interface design

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or military experience

• Experience designing software or mobile applications, enterprise applications a bonus

• Experience creating responsive web layouts 

• Experience designing for cross channel experiences

• Experience creating components and interactive prototypes in Figma

• Comfortable working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes

• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Sketch and/or Figma

• Familiarity with working in an established design system

• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and writing code

• Familiarity with product development from inception to release

 

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.

 

Plano, TX: $115,900 - $132,200 for Pr. Associate, Design