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Director, Research & User Intelligence, Auto Finance

Capital One Plano, TX senior full-time

Salary

$209,500 - $239,100 per year

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Description

Capital One's Experience Design (XD) organization is focused on co-creating memorable, meaningful customer and associate experiences that build our brand with humanity and drive business advantage.

You will provide learning velocity through a structured and systems-oriented combination of primary research, quantitative analysis, and various data inputs – creating cumulative user intelligence.

Role Expectations

This leadership role requires mastery in human factors, digital product design, and quantitative data analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Build cumulative user intelligence: Generate, curate, feed, and maintain user intelligence to inform product and experience strategy
  • Create and maintain research and testing agents: Configure agents to extract insights from existing intelligence, conduct interviews, and conduct testing of concepts, experience prototypes, and live experiences
  • Build and maintain continuous discovery program: Make real and synthetic users available to product teams for discovery purposes
  • Enable Experience Measurement: Partner with CX teams and designers to establish domain-specific experience metrics, ensure instrumentation, develop dashboards, and conduct analysis to determine critical correlations

Leadership competencies

  • Results Focus
  • Influence
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

Basic Qualifications

  • At least 5 Years in User Experience Research, Data Science, Customer Experience, or Product Management
  • At least 5 years of experience aggregating, collecting, and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data
  • At least 2 years managing researchers, analysts, or data scientists

Preferred Qualifications

  • 7+ Years in User Experience Research, Data Science, Customer Experience, or Product Management
  • 7+ years of experience aggregating, collecting, and analyzing quantitative data
  • 5+ years managing researchers, analysts, or data scientists
  • Expertise developing AI-enabled continuous discovery tools or programs
  • Experience extracting insights from synthetic data and personas and building automated research workflows.

Benefits

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

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • AI-enabled continuous discovery tools
  • synthetic data
  • personas
  • automated research workflows
  • performance management
  • career coaching
  • Exceptional communication skills
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