Capital OneDirector - Head of Design Research, Financial Services
Jul. 2022 - Sep. 2024New York, United StatesHead of Design Research for Capital One's Financial Services business, including Auto Finance, Data Insights, & Developer tools. Leading a talented team of researchers & research leaders across 4 LOBs to support over 100 Designers. I own accountability for the direction and delivery of research, research operations, and insights strategy that drive decisions in a $1.4 trillion industry. Accomplishments to date include:
• Established team Vision, Annual Roadmaps, & Service Blueprints to mature organizational research practice
• Collaboratively defined the research democratization model for designers, increasing role clarity for UXRs
• Increased team wide operations, including tools utilization, capacity tracking, impact analysis, project scoping, and skills mapping
• Optimized standards & processes for increasing efficiency by over 150%, saving the business $800,000 in YoY overhead costs
• Acquired new tools, & expanded existing tool use cases, increasing context methods +33% and decreasing E2E study timelines by +40%
• Co-Chair of the inaugural enterprise XD Research Summit which had 400+ cross functional RSVPs
• Established first set of Customer Personas for our flagship product Navigator Platform
• Oversee & forecast ~$300,000 budget spend thru real-time data