The role is live. The July 10–13 404 was transient. R243245 is back with unchanged copy and an active Apply link.
Day 52 is past normal shelf life. Two signals say the search is still open, not frozen. Capital One posted a second Director+ XD leadership role (R244903, Senior Director of Research) on June 18, and 31 Design-category jobs are currently listed. This is a multi-hire phase. And the candidate spec itself, C-suite gravitas plus org-scale AI process transformation plus player-coach execution, is narrow enough to explain why the timeline stretched.
Message Daniela Jorge on LinkedIn this week. She publicly asked to hear from people driving AI transformation in design. Don't open with the role. Name the governance problem underneath the tooling mandate: what happens when hundreds of designers delegate judgment to AI without designed accountability for when it's wrong. Connect to the Decision Gate. Ask for 20 minutes. Submit the Workday application in parallel to create an ATS record.
Her exact words: "I'd love to hear, and learn, from anyone who is making significant strides to drive AI transformation in design."
Subject line: "The accountability layer in agentic design workflows" — not the role title.
Recruiter contact within 7 days of ATS submission: Search is live. Prepare for a screen.
LinkedIn response within 72 hrs: Message landed. Shift to conversation mode.
Silence on both for 10+ business days: Likely stalled or late-slate. Route energy to fresher windows.
Don't lead with tool fluency. Claude, Gemini, Windsurf — every candidate names these. Governance and judgment design is where you separate.
Don't overclaim org-scale transformation. Your proof is hands-on systems judgment and the Trust framework. You built the accountability layer for three agents, not a 500-person AI rollout. That specificity is the strength.