Product Design manager role on Capital One's Premium Products and Travel Design team. Owns end-to-end component architecture, from Figma tokenization to production code, and defines AI-native design guardrails.
What you'll do
- Build, govern and maintain scalable component libraries
- Collaborate directly inside the repo with engineering on code
- Review code for design parity and ship foundational front-end updates
- Establish system logic, prompt criteria and UX frameworks for AI-generated patterns
- Serve as experience auditor to prevent fragmented user experiences
- Map disparate data schemas into structurally sound user flows
- Design component interactions optimized for human users and AI agents
- Act as core design catalyst within a cross-functional pod
- Partner with Enterprise Design Systems teams on alignment with enterprise standards
- Perform heuristic evaluations of live experiences
- Establish frameworks and UX metrics to measure system health and adoption
- Act as player/coach and technical mentor for the design team
- Lead workshops and facilitate onboarding for new product teams
- Coach product designers on systemic thinking and technical fluency
- Champion a contribution governance model for co-creating the system
What we're looking for
- 6+ years in Product Design, Systems Design or Design Engineering
- 5+ years building and scaling multi-level design systems
Nice to have
- Experience in regulated, data-heavy or premium/travel-specific digital ecosystems
- Portfolio showing complex systems problem-solving and UI engineering artifacts
- Code literacy navigating front-end repositories (React, HTML/CSS, token pipelines)
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools or LLM workflows (e.g. Claude)
Good to know
- No sponsorship for employment authorization for this role
- Applications accepted for a minimum of 5 business days