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Senior Director, Regulatory Advisory & Advocacy

Capital One
United States, Virginia, McLean
Aug 21, 2025
Senior Director, Regulatory Advisory & Advocacy

Capital One, a Fortune 500 company and one of the nations top 10 banks, offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. Our goal is to create one of the nation's great banks, and we have the necessary ingredients: a strong balance sheet, resilient businesses, a massive customer franchise, strong analytical capabilities, and great people. We nurture a work environment where people with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds, guided by our shared values, come together to make Capital One a great company - and a great place to work.

Within Capital One, the Regulatory Affairs function at Capital One is responsible for managing all interactions with Federal Banking Regulators. We provide key advisory consulting to senior management with respect to onsite supervision and evolving regulatory policy issues, while also supporting regulatory and supervisory policy.

We are seeking a Senior Director to lead our landscape analysis and policy advocacy efforts in partnership with Legal and our Government Affairs and Policy Group; as well as leading facets of our regulatory interactions on a variety of prudential, consumer, payments and emerging technology and other regulatory matters. The focus of the role will include supporting our efforts in designing and driving the advocacy agenda for critical areas of strategic importance in the regulatory landscape. The successful candidate will also provide advisory services across payments, consumer, emerging technology, and other regulatory developments, across the enterprise. This position plays a significant role in ensuring that Capital One clearly understands and proactively responds to the changing regulatory landscape and enables productive relationships with both supervisory staff and principals of the key regulatory agencies with whom Capital One engages.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development and implementation of a strategy for prudential regulatory agency engagement that amplifies and enhances Capital One's leadership as a tech-forward, financial institution

  • Lead, on behalf of Regulatory Affairs, the development and implementation of enterprise-wide policy advocacy efforts, in partnership with subject matter experts

  • Oversee regulatory and supervisory relations and interactions between Capital One's leaders and the Federal Regulatory supervisory staff and key principals across the agencies

  • Advise functional partners on current and emerging risks, opportunities and challenges that the company faces in the supervisory and regulatory environment, as well as the controls the Management team has established to manage these risks

  • Develop the technical competencies and analytical mindset of Capital One Associates who perform regulatory affairs and external affairs work to ensure awareness of emerging risks and a comprehensive risk program

Basic Qualifications:

  • At least 7 years of experience in banking or financial services, operational or enterprise risk management, audit, consulting, regulatory agencies, or a combination

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in banking or financial services, operational or enterprise risk management, audit, consulting, regulatory agencies, or a combination

  • 10+ years of experience supporting integrated projects or programs where senior leaders and external stakeholders are your customers

  • 8+ years of experience working with banking regulators and regulatory policy

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: $264,300 - $301,700 for Sr. Director, Govt Relations New York, NY: $288,400 - $329,100 for Sr. Director, Govt Relations Richmond, VA: $240,300 - $274,300 for Sr. Director, Govt Relations

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 candidate's 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. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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