Commercial Process Governance

Job Description

R229399
Posted 10/31/2025

Commercial Process Governance & Transformation, Director
McLean, Virginia | Plano, Texas | Richmond, Virginia
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Category: Process and Project Management

Experience: Director

Primary Address: McLean, Virginia

Overview

The Director of Commercial Process Governance & Transformation will lead the central function responsible for driving operational excellence, simplifying our business, and enabling the strategic process transformation agenda for the Commercial Bank. The core mission is to lead a high-performing team to govern our core process ecosystem, deploy targeted process optimization, and embed a culture of continuous improvement.

This leader will be responsible for a team of 10 associates and three pillars (Process Ecosystem Governance, Process Excellence Engine, and Process Optimization). This is a critical leadership role, responsible for reducing our risk profile, improving our client and associate experience, and unlocking our ability to launch new digital and product capabilities with speed and confidence. This leader will be expected to strengthen and optimize high-performing, well-managed processes that drive business performance while managing risk, enhancing client experiences, and empowering teams to operate at their best.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of high-performing leaders and subject matter experts. Unify the three core pillars into one cohesive, integrated team, fostering a culture of excellence, empowerment, and psychological safety.
• Oversee CMLs Business Process Hierarchy, as Business Processes are defined from Level 0 to Level 4 with increasing specificity, with a primary focus on the L2 level.
• Lead the team to maintain operational excellence by documenting and governing all of Commercials operational business processes, this includes defining roles, risks, and controls, and establishing standards that enable consistency, transparency, and ongoing performance.
• Leverage the process framework to drive tangible business outcomes, significantly reduce the bank's risk profile, and ensure a well-managed environment.
• Lead structured transformation efforts that turn process insights into real business outcomesdriving measurable improvements in efficiency, risk management, and experience.
• Lead the Process Excellence Engine (PXE) to deploy rapid, high-impact improvements to the bank's most critical value streams, delivering measurable results in cycle time, risk reduction, and efficiency.
• Lead and consult on complex process improvement initiatives to enable Commercial businesses to gain efficiencies, innovate, and achieve Commercials strategic goals leveraging tried and true data-driven tools and methodologies.
• Build and scale the bank's in-house Lean Six Sigma talent and process optimization competency, embedding continuous improvement as a core, bank-wide skill.
• Improve process acumen of business associates, teaching them how to self-identify opportunities and have the tools and confidence to make an impact.
• Serve as the primary strategic partner for senior business, tech, and risk leaders. Translate the team's technical work into strategic business value and influence the prioritization of the bank's highest-impact process improvement opportunities.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or military experience
• At least 7 years of experience managing project teams and deliverables

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 5 years of process improvement experience
• At least 5 years of experience in audit or risk management
• At Least 5 years of experience with data mining and analytical software (Minitab, Tableau, SQL, R, Snowflake)
• Six Sigma Certification, Lean, Change Management or Agile certification

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Salary Information

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.

• McLean, VA: $184,800 - $210,900 for Director, Process Management
• Plano, TX: $168,000 - $191,700 for Director, Process Management
• Richmond, VA: $168,000 - $191,700 for Director, Process 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 candidates 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.

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