Graduate Product Manager
Location: Nottingham or London.
Eligibility: Open to final-year students graduating in 2025 or those who graduated in 2024. (This covers undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students.)
Sponsorship: We can sponsor anyone with the right to work in the UK, including those on student/graduate visas.
Closing date: November 4, 2024 (subject to early closure).
As we recruit on a rolling basis, we urge applying as soon as possible.
Creating products that address customer and corporate issues. That is one positive thing.
At Capital One, we’re on a mission to improve credit, one good thing at a time. You might consider us a credit card firm. But the truth is that we’re just as much a technology company. And we want to make a difference for our customers, coworkers, and the community.
One of the positive outcomes of making borrowing easier for our customers is that Capital One is a great place to start your career. When you join us, you can expect to be given early responsibility as you work in collaborative teams on significant projects. We have an excellent track record of hiring graduates and helping them attain their full potential. Just look at our CEO, Lucy Hagues. She began as a graduate and now runs the UK business. And this is just one of many success stories.
We are committed to building teams that reflect our clients and the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone, but we especially want to hear from women, LGBTQ+ applicants, and ethnic minorities.
Product Managers at Capital One
Our Product Managers are responsible for developing visions and plans to improve our products. They accomplish this by bringing together a variety of solutions and approaches to challenges, welcoming multiple points of view, looking at things from all angles, and making decisions that will help us achieve.
During the two-year Graduate programme, you will cycle and cover products in a variety of areas, including Marketing, Analytics, Technology, and Operations, providing you with a broad understanding of our products as well as a deeper understanding of Product Management. You may anticipate to be involved in technical, business, and design concerns as you lead the cross-functional teams that execute on our products, as well as taking full ownership and seeing initial ideas through to delivery. GAP and trend analysis will be part of your job, and you will collaborate with professionals from many departments, such as Tech and Design, to identify, create, and implement innovative new solutions.
Being a Capital One graduate requires more than just technical skills. Personal growth opportunities are also plentiful. Whether you view yourself as a future leader, a subject matter expert, or somewhere in the between, you’ll have a manager, mentor, and buddy to help you build out the career path that’s right for you.
What You’ll Need
We do not care what degree you have; what matters is that you are an effective communicator and problem solver.
You’ll have strong stakeholder management abilities, as well as a grasp of what it takes to develop and market products. Because you will be working in many business areas, you must be able to grasp new tools and technologies quickly.
You are interested, proactive, and capable of influencing others.
The Recruitment Process
To ensure a flexible and accessible approach, each stage will be handled digitally. You’ll also have a dedicated recruiter who will guide you through the process and answer any questions you may have.
Step 1: If you satisfy the eligibility criteria, you will be provided online testing to complete. This includes situational and strengths assessments, as well as numerical and verbal thinking tests.
Step 2: You will be prompted to complete a one-way video interview.
Step 3: Meet virtually with one of our Product Managers for a Product Interview.
Step 4: Attend the assessment day, which includes group activities, case studies, and individual interviews. If successful, we will offer you a spot on the program!
What is in it for you?
Exciting (and diversified) chances for professional development
Excellent learning and development through our Capital One Develop UK training programs (and approved external suppliers).
Core perks include a pension system, bonus, considerable vacation time, and private medical insurance.
Flexible benefits include season-ticket loans, a cycle-to-work scheme, and increased parental leave.
Open-plan offices and accessible facilities meant to assist and inspire you, such as a fully serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and games rooms.
Plenty of volunteer opportunities to give back to the community through our corporate social responsibility programs.
Our GradComm team runs regular social events, including an annual company-wide summer festival.
You may even help shape how our early career programs look for future graduates by joining one of our working groups or becoming a buddy/mentor yourself.
Where and how will you work?
This is a permanent post based in either Nottingham or London.
office.
We have a mixed work arrangement that gives you flexibility to work from our premises.
and from home. We value cooperation and connection, so you will work in our Nottingham office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we are open to chatting.
Consider an arrangement that works for you.
What You Should Know About How We Recruit
We take pleasure in employing the finest, not the same folks. Creating diverse and inclusive teams is the correct (and smart) thing to do. We want to collaborate with excellent talent, no matter who you are, how you look, or where you’re from. We understand that it is more about what you do than what you say. That is why we ensure that our recruitment process is fair and accessible.
We also work with organisations like the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall, and upReach to find people from all walks of life and help them succeed with us. We have a wide array of internal networks and support groups you could participate in, to name a few:
REACH, the Race Equality and Culture Heritage group, aims to increase representation, retention, and participation among associates from minority ethnicities and allies.
OutFront offers LGBTQ+ assistance for all associates.
Mind Your Mind – providing help and supporting positive mental health for everybody
Women in Tech promotes an inclusive atmosphere in technology.
EmpowHER is a network of female colleagues and allies dedicated to fostering future leaders, particularly among female talent in our sector.
Enabled is a group dedicated to improving the working lives of individuals with disabilities and neurodiversity.
GreenTeam is passionate about sustainability and aims to enhance Capital One UK’s environmental effect.
Capital One is committed to promoting workplace diversity.
If you need a fair modification, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com. All information will be kept confidential and used only to apply a reasonable modification.
For technical assistance or queries about Capital One’s recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com.
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Capital One Financial is comprised of multiple separate organisations. Please keep in mind that any positions advertised in Canada are for Capital One Canada, those in the United Kingdom are for Capital One Europe, and any in the Philippines are for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).
Who We Are:
Capital One is establishing a leading information-based technology corporation. Capital One, still founded and headed by Chairman and CEO Richard Fairbank, is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing inventiveness, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We assess our efforts based on our customers’ success and advocacy. We succeed because they succeed.
Our shared principles guide us, and we flourish in an environment that encourages cooperation and openness. We think that perspective drives creativity and that teamwork and mutual respect produce superior results. We elevate one another and worry over doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a great sense of responsibility for assisting our customers in achieving their objectives and dreams. We are working together to make a positive shift in banking.
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