# Principal Associate, HR Strategic Operations

**Company**: Capital One
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $120,800 - $137,900
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Principal Associate Project Manager at Capital One, you will drive strategy and execute on high-priority projects for the company. You will work with smart and passionate people to deliver results that have a direct impact on the company's bottom line.

**About the Team** As part of the Human Resources Strategic Operations team, you will partner with HR leaders and colleagues to drive and help deliver on HR strategic priorities that create value for Capital One.

**General Responsibilities:**

- Executive Governance & Decision Support: Design agendas for executive meetings that drive outcomes, ensuring transparency and accelerated decision-making.

- Strategy Architecture: Support the drafting and evolution of our multi-year HR strategy, ensuring alignment across the enterprise.

- Organizational Health & Reporting: Define and own the metrics that matter, managing reporting on key objectives and org health.

- High-Stakes Communications: Draft communications for executive forums, bridging the gap between high-level strategy and the enterprise-wide execution of our HR objectives.

- Culture Advocacy: Help design initiatives that foster engagement and high performance within the Strategic Operations team and the broader HR org.

- AI Enablement & Process Innovation: Identify and pilot opportunities to responsibly integrate AI tools into strategic operations workflows.

**Who you are:**

- A Strategic Problem Solver: You can take a messy, ambiguous problem and break it down into a structured workstream.

- An Operations Leader: You have a proven track record of managing complex, cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

- Executive Ready: You are comfortable presenting to and influencing senior leaders.

- Growth-Oriented: You are currently a high-performing PA with the ambition and "owner" mindset to move forward on your career journey.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s Degree or Military experience

- At least 3 years of experience in Strategic Operations, Project Management, Management Consulting, HR Strategy, Chief of Staff role or combination

- At least 1 year of experience in roadmap alignment, governance structures, stakeholder alignment, and change management

- At least 3 years of experience working in a matrixed environment

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Exceptional writing and visual storytelling skills

- Highly organized with great attention to detail

- At least 4 years of Management Consulting experience

- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills

- Excellent problem-solving and influencing skills

- Familiarity with leveraging AI technologies or prompt engineering to enhance operational productivity

**Salary Information:** McLean, VA: $120,800 - $137,900 for Principal Project Manager Richmond, VA: $109,900 - $125,400 for Principal Project Manager

**Benefits:** Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- Strategic Operations
- Project Management
- Management Consulting
- HR Strategy
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Alignment
- Governance Structures
- Roadmap Alignment

### Nice to have
- AI Enablement
- Process Innovation
- Visual Storytelling
- Prompt Engineering

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