Sr. Director, Head of Servicing Strategy & Operations, Capital One Travel

Capital One Travel (COT) is seeking a highly strategic, visionary, and operationally rigorous Head of Servicing to lead our customer support ecosystem into its next era of growth. In this pivotal senior leadership role, you will define exactly “where winning is” for our servicing organization, intrinsically linking our global operations to Capital One Travels broader business strategy.

This role perfectly straddles the line between an experienced Servicing & Operations executive and a Product & Technology visionary. You will be responsible for architecting the future state of Capital One Travel servicing, championing our support ecosystem as a core competitive advantage. As we expand into new business segments and rapidly scale our digital capabilities, you will dynamically balance tech-forward automation with premium, white-glove service to meet evolving market demands.

What You’ll Do:

• Define "Where Winning Is": Architect and execute the destination servicing strategy for COT, establishing a clear vision of "what winning looks like" in alignment with our broader enterprise and travel objectives.
• Drive Operational Excellence & Workforce Design: Maintain oversight of the servicing financial footprint, applying rigorous analytical and critical thinking to how we deploy resources. Rather than managing to a strict bottom-line target, guide operations leadership to deeply understand our cost drivers and dynamically allocate spend, driving efficiency in low-complexity areas so we can deliberately fund and over-invest in the high-touch, premium moments that yield the highest customer ROI
• Raise the Bar on Servicing Customer Experience (CX): Drive a relentless operational focus on hunting down and eliminating friction across the entire customer support ecosystem—re-engineering disjointed frontline and back-office processes into seamless experiences. Beyond optimizing the daily CX, champion our most sensitive escalation workflows, ensuring agents are fully empowered and enterprise-connected to swiftly resolve fraud, complaints, and high-risk situations.
• Champion Technology, AI & Data Integration: Partner with Product teams to champion seamless, automated digital workflows that empower customers to effortlessly self-serve low-complexity needs. Simultaneously, integrate intelligent experiences, predictive insights and automated tasks into the agent tooling ecosystem, empowering frontline teams to resolve complex issues more effectively and efficiently.
• Demonstrate Excellence in Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the ultimate conduit between customer servicing and the business, driving strategic improvements and shaping the broader travel product roadmap through deep, influential relationships across the broader Travel and Capital One organization.
• Build a World-Class Culture: Lead, mentor, and inspire a large, distributed organization. Foster an inclusive and collaborative environment grounded in, focused deeply on developing the next generation of operational leaders.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Strategic Operator: Extensive executive-level experience in Customer Success, Business Process Outsourcing/Contact Center Operations, and Servicing Strategy. Proven comfort in scaling global operations and managing operational costs.
• Product & Tech Fluency: Highly adept at partnering with product, design, and engineering teams to translate operational needs into digital solutions.
• Data & Analytical Rigor: A track record of leveraging complex data ecosystems to drive operational leverage, segmentation, and efficiency.
• Transformational Leader: High learning agility and comfort leading through significant organizational transformation, rapid scaling, and paradigm-shifting technological advancements.
• Masterful Communicator: Exceptional executive-level influencing skills with a proven ability to "connect the dots" across a highly matrixed organization.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree 
• At least 10 years of Process, Project, or Program Management experience
• At least 10 years of Customer Facing Operations experience
• At least 5 years of People Leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters in Business Administration
• 11+ years of Process, Project, or Program Management experience
• 11+ years of Customer Facing Operations experience
• 7+ years of People Management experience
• 4+ years of Learning & Development experience
• 5+ years of experience in Travel Servicing
• PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification

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.

McLean, VA: $229,700 - $262,100 for Sr Director, Operations

New York, NY: $250,600 - $286,000 for Sr Director, Operations