Manager, Project Manager - AI Transformation & Delivery
Capital One, a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation’s top 10 banks, offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients. The Finance Integrated Program & Delivery (FIPD) team is seeking a forward‑thinking, dynamic Manager to lead high‑impact strategic initiatives that are transforming how Finance works, serve as the central point of orchestration for a portfolio of high‑priority, complex initiatives, and accelerate AI adoption across the team.
General Responsibilities
- Develop concise, decision‑oriented updates for senior leaders, highlighting progress, emerging issues, key decisions, and areas requiring leadership intervention.
- Own and drive clear, consistent, and timely communications across the portfolio, translating complex program information into audience‑appropriate messaging for executives, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
- Identify connections, overlaps, competing priorities, and opportunities across initiatives to ensure work is managed through an enterprise lens.
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, and potential delivery challenges; drive mitigation plans and escalate issues before they impact critical outcomes.
- Establish mechanisms for capturing decisions, identifying decision owners, defining required inputs, and ensuring decisions are made at the appropriate level and translated into action.
- Translate strategic priorities into executable plans, helping teams move from broad objectives to defined outcomes, workstreams, milestones, and measurable success criteria.
- Anticipate upcoming needs, decisions, risks, and organizational impacts to keep leadership multiple steps ahead.
- Develop a strong understanding of current processes and workflows to identify AI opportunities that simplify work, automate manual activities, improve insights, or enhance operations; partner with team members to evaluate, prioritize, and advance high‑value AI use cases.
- Provide critical visibility into the AI portfolio through standardized reporting, tracking adoption, resource demand, and project health, replacing manual reporting with self‑service tools.
- Evaluate current work‑management practices and introduce new tools, AI capabilities, automation, and operating practices that make program delivery faster, simpler, and more effective.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent military experience.
- At least 5 years of Project Management or Program Management experience, including leading business transformation projects.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- Hands‑on experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies in a technical or data‑driven environment.
- SAFe certification.
- Experience with AI or GenAI‑enabled projects, including familiarity with risk governance or AI model lifecycle management.
- Strong familiarity with Finance/Accounting operations and legacy data ecosystem challenges.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive consensus across disparate teams (e.g., Business, Tech, Risk, Data).
Pay
Full‑time annual salary ranges (by location):
- McLean, VA: $151,900 – $173,400 for Manager, Project Management.
- Richmond, VA: $138,100 – $157,700 for Manager, Project Management.
- Other locations: salary will align with the pay range for the specific location.
The role is also eligible for performance‑based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long‑term incentives (LTI). Incentives may be discretionary or non‑discretionary depending on the plan.
Benefits
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support total well‑being. Eligibility varies based on full‑ or part‑time status, exempt or non‑exempt status, and management level.