Director, Product Management - Developer Experience - Secure Foundations Platform

About the role

Capital One is a high-tech company, a scientific laboratory, and a nationally recognized brand all in one, reaching tens of millions of consumers. We are a passionate and entrepreneurial team embracing bold ideas, fostering collaboration, and delivering great experiences for our customers. The Developer Experience team is at the heart of our tech-forward approach, delivering enterprise capabilities and a common platform that enables our engineering teams to thrive in the cloud.

This role is at the center of our strategy to empower developers by removing toil and embedding security seamlessly into the development lifecycle. By automating the detection and remediation of vulnerabilities at their source, this leader will directly address one of the largest operational burdens on our engineering community. The success of this role will free up the equivalent of hundreds of full-time teams from reactive, interrupt-driven work, unleashing their capacity to focus on innovation and building the future of banking.

As a Director on the Developer Experience Product team, you will be responsible for the strategy, vision, and execution of how we manage software artifacts and continuously refresh production environments with up-to-date software. This outcome is designed to fundamentally solve the challenge of artifact and vulnerability management across foundational software components like container base images and open-source libraries.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion the product vision and multi-year strategy for automated container vulnerability remediation at Capital One.
• Lead the product roadmap for the Continuous Automated Refresh (CAR) platform, transforming it from a program to a mature, scalable product.
• Partner closely with senior leaders in Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Risk to ensure the platform meets the complex security and operational needs of a large enterprise.
• Deeply understand the pain points of our internal software development teams and use those insights to build solutions that make the secure path the easy path.
• Define, monitor, and evangelize key performance indicators, measuring the reduction of toil, decreased time-to-remediate, and the overall impact on developer productivity and satisfaction.
• Drive the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation and stakeholder engagement to delivery, launch, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as the enterprise-wide subject matter expert on the product, effectively communicating its value proposition and progress to stakeholders at all levels.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field and at least 5 years of Product Management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading product management for developer platforms, DevOps tools, or large-scale enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, particularly in application security, vulnerability management, or software supply chain security.
• Experience translating complex business strategy and technical challenges into a clear, data-driven product roadmap.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and risk management.
• Excellent communication skills with a track record of engaging and influencing senior executives.

Pay

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: Chicago, IL: $209,500 - $239,100, McLean, VA: $230,400 - $263,000, Plano, TX: $209,500 - $239,100, Richmond, VA: $209,500 - $239,100. This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation.

Benefits

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