UX Research Lead, Data Experience Design
Center 2 (19050), United States of America, McLean, Virginia
UX Research Lead, Data Experience Design
We are currently seeking a Lead Design Researcher to join our team to focus on strategic level research. Because we are a human centered organization obsessed with delivering products and services based on customer research and feedback, design research is at the heart of our work. We believe using empathy, curiosity and asking questions to understand our customers is core to delivering best in class products and services. We represent the voice of our customers and focus on being the source of truth for our customer insights.
The Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you’re an innovator and storyteller who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we would love to hear from you.
What You’ll Do:
As a leader and maker, you’ll be asked to handle responsibilities, including:
Strategy & Planning
Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to create intuitive and engaging customer experiences across multiple projects simultaneously, start to finish
Translating findings into product direction that guides the experience and product decisions
Leading and shaping early product definitions with formative and foundational research.
Engage in portfolio prioritization to help set the strategy and product road map for the team
Manage through open ended problems and support early product definition
Advocate for the customer through human-centered design methods
Defining standards and best practices for how research is done in a non-centralized research model
Champion prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis
Working with partners and teams across various geographies
Embracing and advocating for an experience mindset - this is as important to the work as the results
Lead & Develop Teams
Building and leading successful teams through career development by mentoring, coaching, and elevating others
Guide team members in strategy, research, alignment, and analysis
Navigating conflict resolution within your team as well as within projects, teams and partner relationships
Execution & Delivery
Demonstrate fluency of design research tools and techniques to measure success, present opportunities, and support decision-making and prioritization utilizing qualitative and quantitative research methods
Practice and help evolve the team’s research techniques and toolset to work effectively in cross-team collaboration
Participate in end-to-end product design by:
Conducting research studies at all stages from discovery to validation, using a variety of methods to understand customer needs and define opportunities such as usability studies, card sorting, field studies, cognitive walk-throughs, contextual inquiry, participatory design.
Leading designers and non-designers on project teams understand and apply research findings by framing problems, defining insights, and designing new methodologies/practices to serve customer needs
Facilitate synthesis and knowledge mapping sessions, teaching research methodologies
Distilling findings into clearly articulated and actionable insights for stakeholders by clearly articulating strategies
Knowledge management and decimation of insights, and creating standards for how research is done, shared, templatized and managed
Planning and facilitating workshops with internal and external stakeholders to align with business needs
Present and communicate research and analysis clearly and effectively across various organizations in any format required. Must be able to sell, support, explain, and simply present usability approach and research to various audience types
Basic Qualifications:
At least 5 years' experience as a Design Researcher in a business or consulting capacity
At least 2 years' experience managing project teams
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience
5+ years of usability testing and user experience research
Experience teaching: design thinking, human centered design, design research.
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position
No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. 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.
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