Principal Associate, Project Manager, HR Activate PMO

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. Our goal is to create one of the nation’s great banks, and we have the necessary ingredients: a strong balance sheet, resilient businesses, a massive customer franchise, strong analytical capabilities, and great people. We nurture a work environment where people with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds, guided by our shared Values, come together to make Capital One a great company – and a great place to work.

As a Manager Project Manager at Capital One, you will drive strategy and execute on high priority projects for the company. You will take on important and exciting responsibility from day one, working with key stakeholders across the company. In this individual contributor role, you will be challenged to excel and lead alongside the brightest talent in the industry and be rewarded for your achievements.

About the Team

As part of the HR Activate Project Management Office, you will partner with product, technology, and HR domain leaders to drive innovative customer experiences and strategic initiatives that create value for Capital One HR.

Responsibilities:

• Leading large complex, cross-functional projects by providing strategic direction to senior leaders and peers

• Quickly put structure in place through integrated project management in a dynamic, complex environment

• Operate effectively in whitespace to deliver results

• Design, develop, and manage project plans, RAID trackers and project artifacts, revising needs to meet changing requirements

• Problem solve and influence to ensure project plans deliver on intent

• Partner cross-functionally with project stakeholders to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery

• Communicate efficiently and with excellent judgment to senior executives and diverse groups throughout the organization to manage, inform, and influence outcomes

We want you if you are:

• A Strategic Problem Solver. You can take a messy, ambiguous problem and break it down into a structured workstream. You think three steps ahead.

• Apply technical expertise. Effectively communicate with engineering and product teams, translate complex requirements into actionable project plans, and enable alignment between product vision and development execution.

• **Influence, not just communicate.**You can convey complex ideas clearly regardless of your audience. Our team knows their priorities and why they’re doing what they’re doing. You can rally associates to work with you.

• **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.

• Biased towards action. You try things and sometimes you fail. You can get around roadblocks and stay focused on your goals.

• **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 5 years of Project Management experience

• At least 1 year of experience in tech implementations and managing cross-functional scope

• At least 1 years of experience with agile, waterfall, hybrid methodologies or a combination

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP, Lean, Agile, Six Sigma certification or a combination

• Experience with project management tools (Smartsheet, MS Project, Asana, Monday, Jira)

• Experience using decomposition to create project plans

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.

Mc Lean, VA: $120,800 - $137,900 for Principal Project Manager

Richmond, VA: $109,900 - $125,400 for Principal Project 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.

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