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Business Manager, Consumer Identity

Capital One · Chicago, IL · Full time

Posted Jun 24, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you set strategy in partnership with product managers and engineers.

What they are checking: Whether they can bring analytical rigor to a product team without dictating the solution.

Tell me about a time you had to make a decision quickly with incomplete data.

What they are checking: Whether they can act under pressure, as fraud attacks require, and then revisit with better data.

What would you do

A fraud ring starts using synthetic identities to open accounts. Walk me through how you'd respond in the first week.

What they are checking: Whether they can contain the attack fast while gathering data to build a lasting defense, working across lines of business.

Fraudsters adapt quickly. How do you keep a fraud strategy from going stale?

What they are checking: Whether they build in monitoring, feedback loops and regular review rather than treating a policy as finished.

How could cross-line-of-business behavioral data help with fraud, and what concerns would you want addressed first?

What they are checking: Whether they see the value while respecting privacy, data governance and appropriate use.

A product leader wants to remove a verification step to boost conversion. How do you respond?

What they are checking: Whether they quantify the risk and propose options like targeted step-up checks instead of a flat yes or no.

About the work

How would you evaluate whether a new identity verification tool is worth adopting?

What they are checking: Whether they weigh fraud caught, false positives, customer friction and cost against the current baseline.

Explain the tradeoff between stopping fraud and adding friction for good customers. How do you quantify it?

What they are checking: Whether they can put fraud losses and lost good customers on one scale to set policy thresholds.

How would you measure whether an identity check is causing customers to abandon an application?

What they are checking: Their approach to funnel analysis and controlled tests to isolate the effect of one step.

The posting mentions building Credit Risk management infrastructure foundations for this team. What would that include?

What they are checking: Whether they think about loss tracking, policy governance, monitoring and controls as the basics of a risk function.

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The full job description

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Business Manager, Consumer Identity Job Description The Consumer Identity team is looking for a Business Manager for the Strategy and Analytics team to help us in our mission to protect our customers’ identities from Fraud and to help Capital One in its push to put customer centric analysis at the center of how we operate. Your role will be to help drive the strategy and analytics that we leverage in optimizing fraud prevention. You will partner with Product Managers, Engineering, Design and many others to deliver on one of the most critical dimensions of how Capital One defends the company and its customers against Fraud. This role will include work on items such as: • Evaluating the effectiveness of new Identity tools, optimizing policy, and setting a strategic roadmap in partnership with our platform teams for the next generation of Identity defenses • Analyzing, responding to and mitigating Fraud attacks in partnership with Lines of Business across the company to ensure our defenses keep pace with our attackers • Establishing our Credit Risk management infrastructure foundations • Create frameworks to assess our platforms existing customer experiences and interactions with customers to ID leverage points in reducing friction and drive customer satisfaction • Exploring opportunities to leverage customer level data (i.e. cross-LOB behavioral) for Fraud & other high leverage use cases As a Business Analysis Manager at Capital One, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You'll team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation. General Responsibilities: • Strategic leadership: Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for Capital One in the face of shifting consumer and regulatory demands • Leadership: May manage and develop 1-2 analysts. Coaching and mentoring associates with a goal of developing and retaining talent at Capital One • Product: Develop and implement new product and pricing strategies for various lending products; lead product level modeling/analytics • Marketing: Lead direct-to-consumer marketing efforts for select products, and strategic intent for products distributed through the retail channel. Build targeted insights to inform the design and development of new customer experiences, as well as breakthrough technology and concepts designed to deliver on new go-to-market strategies • Credit Risk: Drive step-change improvements in credit performance by connecting drivers of future consumer credit trends to historical behavior, creating risk models, and testing hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis • Execution: Manage and sequence delivery of business intent, build business requirements and execute against the product strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently • Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across Capital One including: IT, Sales, Operations, Finance and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability • Strategic & analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management • Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: He/she should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business • Solid people leadership experience: Ability to build and leverage the capabilities of a high-performing team, as well as business partners across the enterprise. He/she should foster innovation, drive critical decisions, hold business partners accountable, and be able to consistently deliver results • Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal and negotiation skills • Clear results orientation: display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. He/she should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment • Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment. Previous consulting experience is a plus Basic Qualifications: • At least 3 years of professional experience performing analysis • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date: • A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer engineering, Software engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) • A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration Preferred Qualifications: • Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering • 5+ years of experience in analysis • 2+ years of experience in financial services • 1+ year of experience in consulting • 2+ years of experience in people management Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position. The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked. Chicago, IL: $149,800 - $171,000 for Business Manager McLean, VA: $164,800 - $188,100 for Business Manager Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter. This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan. Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site. Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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