M&T Bank is looking to fill a Product Owner role to ensure their products provide value to customers while aligning with business strategy. This role will define product vision and roadmap, prioritize the product backlog, and serve as the primary communicator between stakeholders and agile teams.
Requirements
- Prior experience prioritizing across competing priorities and quickly-changing landscape
- Prior experience actively seeking out multiple opinions, yet making independent decisions and influencing positive outcomes
- Understanding of Design Thinking principles
- Knowledge of basic product design and development best practices
- Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices
- Experience working in partnership with user experience teams on product design
- Experience developing/managing digital capabilities
Responsibilities
- Build and own the product vision and roadmap that aligns with the overall strategic intent and communicate them with the team and all stakeholders.
- Prioritize the backlog based on the overall product vision and strategy.
- Represent the voice of the customer within the team and convey story details to the team; make autonomous decisions, quickly and thoughtfully, to move delivery forward in alignment with overall product vision and strategy.
- Write user stories and groom the backlog in partnership with the team.
- Specify acceptance criteria for each user story in support of moving the team to Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD).
- Work directly with the delivery team to create appropriate information radiators and other communication tools for internal team and stakeholder use.
- Focus on outcomes over outputs, incorporating design thinking methods and analytics to inform product design.
Other
- Serves as owner for an assigned product or set of products by representing the voice of the customer and stakeholders to ensure that the product provides value to the customer, while aligning with the business strategy.
- The Product Owner defines their product vision and roadmap, prioritizes the product backlog, anticipates client needs and serves as primary communicator between product stakeholders and teams while evaluating product progress at each iteration.
- In addition, the Product Owner plays a key role in the company’s strategic direction, defining and articulating new opportunities, and working in close concert with key stakeholders, including senior leadership and their dedicated agile team.
- Participate in all team activities and ceremonies.
- Use a matrixed influencing approach to work with essential business partners throughout the organization irrespective of hierarchy or divisions, advocating for the benefit of the customer.
