Cyber Product Owner

Capital One is a technology-oriented company delivering financial products through modern technology and constant innovation at massive scale. As part of this innovation, we leverage technology to deliver the best cybersecurity solutions for our business.

About the role

As a Product Owner in Cyber, you will contribute to and deliver upon the strategic agenda for our core cyber products, driving meaningful progress for our customers and business. You will drive product vision into development teams, translate vision into delivery objectives, provide customer-informed guidance, and work with cross-functional teams to deliver well-managed, sustainable features. Using deep technical knowledge and subject matter expertise in cybersecurity and systems engineering, you will drive impactful improvements to our cyber capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Communicate the delivery roadmap to technology teams by inspiring them through the product vision
• Clearly articulate and advocate target persona, customer benefit, and value of features across teams
• Leverage technical knowledge and skills on how systems work and how code is built to effectively support engineering teams in delivering value
• Utilize strong cybersecurity background and customer research to represent the voice of the customer to the engineering team(s)
• Incorporate design thinking and analytics to inform product design
• Actively participate in research or design sessions for new features
• Contribute to the development of a healthy product backlog, collaborating with the Product Manager, Engineering, and Solution Architects to break down business epics, document user stories (including technical debt, SRE, etc.), design details, and comprehensive acceptance criteria
• Lead internal backlog refinement sessions to refine cyber and customer intent, prepare business epics and stories for technical breakdown and planning, and ensure requirements are well understood by engineering teams
• Prioritize the Product Backlog to maximize business and customer outcomes by balancing technical and non-technical aspects while incorporating cyber and operational risk reduction outcomes
• Act as a technical advisor to the product manager, engineering, and other stakeholders
• Collaborate across multiple cross-functional teams and the Product Owner community, playing a key role in key Agile and SAFe ceremonies
• Support teams through escalation and resolution of impediments
• Drive performance and innovation with data-driven insights
• Proactively identify opportunities when key metrics on security, resilience, and performance for your product(s) are not performing
• Maintain technical and risk credibility with your team(s) and partners across the technology organization

Requirements

You believe that a core component of security’s role is to enable the business, not just secure it, and align solutions to the needs of our developer community, customers, and business partners. You thrive in a fast-paced, technologically forward-leaning environment and push the boundaries of security capabilities. You seek to create enduring value by delivering reusable, extensible, and resilient cybersecurity capabilities to address the evolving threat landscape.

• High School Diploma or GED
• At least 6 years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology
• At least 4 years of experience in Cloud Security with a focus on multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• At least 4 years of experience in product management
• You actively solve cyber technical challenges in collaboration with engineering
• You are naturally curious and stay on top of emerging trends and threats
• You have a comprehensive understanding of velocity-driven software delivery to connect effectively with software and platform engineers
• You seek to understand the business and technology landscape and cross-functional dependencies to inform product vision and integration with larger organizational goals
• You are a clear thinker, thrive in working across teams, and are an expert in dealing with ambiguity
• You understand and track key metrics on security, resilience, and performance for your product(s) and understand levers that drive these metrics
• You have strong consulting and analytical skills and a risk management mindset
• You foster collaborative, open working relationships with technology partners and other stakeholders
• You demonstrate balanced judgment in decisions and incorporate risk factors accordingly
• You have a strong bias for action

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science
• 5+ years of experience solving cyber technical challenges
• 5+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into products
• 2+ years of experience with AI Security frameworks, Agentic AI architectures, and the secure implementation/use of Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers
• 2+ years of experience implementing security best practices for containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Amazon ECS)
• 3+ years of Cyber product owner experience
• 2+ years of experience in technical writing
• 2+ years of hands-on JIRA experience
• 3+ years of experience in scaled agile product management
• 1+ years of experience in regulated financial services organizations or tech companies
• 2 or more professional certifications (SAFe PM/PO, CISSP, GIAC, CISM, CCSP, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Security)

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or offer any immigration-related support for this position.

Pay

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below by location:

• McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical
• Plano, TX: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical
• Richmond, VA: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based on the agreed-upon number of hours to be regularly worked. This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.