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About Capital One Financial
Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking
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JOB TITLE: Sr. Director Technical Program Management (AI/ML)
The Sr. Director Technical Program Management (AI/ML) leads the development of AI and ML platforms to support a real-time information strategy. This role involves driving the end-to-end strategic roadmap for enterprise platforms, ensuring modernization, scalability, and alignment with business growth. You will manage technical programs that span the AI and ML training and production lifecycle, including agentic AI architectures, multi-agent conversational systems, LLM inference, and model fine-tuning. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to deliver high-reliability experiences across credit card, retail banking, and auto finance lines of business. Key requirements include experience with distributed systems, cloud computing services, and AWS. You will also establish governance frameworks, manage executive communications, and mentor TPM leaders to foster a high-performance culture focused on technical excellence.
Drive the end-to-end strategic roadmap for enterprise AI/ML platforms to ensure scalability and business alignment.
Manage the full AI/ML lifecycle including training, fine-tuning, monitoring, and LLM inference.
Own executive communications regarding delivery status, program risks, and long-term architectural decisions.
Establish and scale TPM best practices, governance frameworks, and OKR-based performance models.
Influence investment prioritization to optimize for long-term agility, resilience, and cost efficiency.
Mentor and develop TPM leaders to foster a high-performance culture focused on technical excellence.
Take AI initiatives from concept to production to deliver high-reliability, real-time customer experiences.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
At least 9 years of experience managing technical programs.
9+ years of experience building distributed systems and highly available services using cloud computing architecture, preferably including AWS (preferred).
3+ years of experience with the AI/ML development lifecycle in a business-critical setting (preferred).
5+ years of experience building and leading engineering or TPM teams or impacting multiple organizations as an IC (preferred).
Experience building systems and solutions within a highly regulated environment (preferred).
Master’s Degree in a related technical field such as Computer Science or Software Engineering (preferred).
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a variety of audiences (preferred).
Generative AI
AWS
Distributed Computing
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Agile
Model Pretraining
Inference Optimization
Multi-agent Conversational Systems
Cloud Computing
PMP
Lean
Six Sigma