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Senior Associate, Product Management, Decisioning Platform

Capital One · Chicago, IL · Full time

Posted Aug 31, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you worked closely with engineers to define a feature they were unsure how to build.

What they are checking: Whether they collaborate on tradeoffs and identify when more research is needed before committing to a design.

Tell me about a time you used data to change a product decision.

What they are checking: Whether they rely on evidence and can show a concrete case where data shifted direction.

What would you do

Two business teams want conflicting changes to the same decision engine. How do you prioritize?

What they are checking: Whether they use impact, risk and platform health to decide rather than favoring whoever asks loudest.

A rule change shipped through your platform caused bad decisions for a day. How do you respond?

What they are checking: Whether they own the incident, protect customers first and push for guardrails that prevent a repeat.

How do you explain a technical platform's value to business leaders who only care about outcomes?

What they are checking: Whether they can translate infrastructure work into business terms that earn support and funding.

About the work

In your own words, what does a decisioning platform do, and who are its users?

What they are checking: Whether they understand that rules, models and data come together to make automated business decisions for many teams.

Walk me through how you would break a business epic into features and user stories for this platform.

What they are checking: Whether they can decompose platform work into slices that are testable and move toward a minimum viable product.

How would you write acceptance criteria for letting business users change decision rules without a code release?

What they are checking: Whether they think about testing, approvals, audit trails and rollback when self-service touches live decisions.

How would you measure whether the decisioning platform is getting better over time?

What they are checking: Whether they pick meaningful metrics like time to change a strategy, reliability and adoption rather than vanity counts.

What is the difference between a rule and a model in automated decisioning, and when would you prefer each?

What they are checking: Whether they understand explainability, speed of change and governance differences that matter in a regulated bank.

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The full job description

As published by Capital One.

Senior Associate, Product Management, Decisioning Platform Product Management Product Management at Capital One is a booming, vibrant craft that requires reimagining the status quo, finding value creation opportunities, and driving innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology. We believe our portfolio of businesses and investments in growth and transformation will result in a company with the scale, brand, capabilities, talent, and values to succeed as the digital revolution transforms our society and our industry. Do you dream of well-designed and intuitive products and customer experiences? Do you want to be the one who introduces change to help tens of millions of customers make smarter financial choices? Do you want to change the way people manage their money? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then product management at Capital One may be a fit for you In this role, you’ll learn the essentials of being a product manager, and we’ll invest in you to grow in four key areas : • Human Centered • You’ll collaborate with tech teams to build comprehensive acceptance criteria, identifying and elevating any need for additional research to define future feature design • You'll breakdown business epics into features and further into user stories, driving your team towards lowest effort or Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for a valid feature test • Business Focused • Demonstrating a growth mindset, you’ll effectively use hypothesis-driven assessment of data to ensure your product or feature delivers on real business needs • You’ll own and prioritize feature development roadmaps, ensuring all necessary processes and procedures are followed to manage risk • Technology Driven • You’ll work autonomously in an agile environment, to conduct research and develop features that utilize new and evolving technology • You’ll collaborate with designers, technologists, data scientists and subject-matter experts to build cutting edge solutions to help customers • You’ll deliver well-managed product platforms for customers by seeking to understand technology trends and architecture strategy • Transformational Leadership • By actively participating in horizontal forums, you’ll harness a network of trusted relationships among tech teams, designers, key internal stakeholders and partner teams • You’ll articulate a succinct product roadmap to deliver business value and share with with stakeholders, elevating your team’s results and becoming a product matter expert About the team: Decisions power every part of Capital One — from approving an applicant for a card to approving a credit line increase. We're building the Decisioning Platform to make it simple, fast, and provable for internal decisioning teams to build, test, launch, and scale their most critical decisions. The work we're doing will shape how Capital One makes decisions for years to come, and we'd love to have you help us build it! We want you if you are: • Intellectually Curious . You ask why, you explore, you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea or follow an email chain for weeks to find someone with an answer. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges • Communicator & Influencer. You can communicate complex ideas clearly regardless of your audience. Our team knows their priorities and why they’re doing what they’re doing. You always can rally associates to work with you • Do-er. You’re biased toward action, you try things and sometimes you fail. You can get around roadblocks and stay focused on your goals. You’re well organized, able to multitask and able to prioritize your work • Passionate & Customer Focus . You care about growing others and bringing them together around what’s possible. You get a thrill from the journey of building and shipping products, and you have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs • Learner. You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when the time comes to ask for help • Team Player. You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You have the ability to put the team before yourself and establish long-lasting relationships Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree or military experience • At least 1 year of product management experience or at least 1 year of experience in product design, agile delivery, business analysis, data science, or software engineering Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering • 1+ years translating business strategy or analysis into consumer facing digital products • 1+ years of experience working on core product platforms powering digital experiences • 1+ years working with cross functional teams as a product owner in an agile development process At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new 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: $101,100 - $115,400 for Sr. Associate, Product Management; $149,800 - $171,000 for Manager, Product Management McLean, VA: $111,200 - $126,900 for Sr. Associate, Product Management; $164,800 - $188,100 for Manager, Product Management New York, NY: $121,300 - $138,400 for Sr. Associate, Product Management; $179,700 - $205,100 for Manager, Product Management 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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