Product Owner

Overview:

Serves as owner for Hogan for an assigned product or set of products by representing the voice of the customer, stakeholders, and business partners (Digital and Enterprise Data) to ensure that the product provides value to the customer, while aligning with the business strategy. The Hogan Product Owner works with the Business Product Owner or business partner(s) to define their product vision and roadmap, prioritize user stories & product backlog to support business needs, anticipates client needs and serves as a conduit between product stakeholders and Hogan team while evaluating product progress at each iteration.

Primary Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Work in cooperation with several other Product Owners within the Digitaland Enterprise Data space to establish value priority of the of the work being performed by component teams with a focus on maximizing benefit to a variety of stakeholders with, in some cases, competing priorities.
• Communicates business user stories and refine the backlog in partnership with the Hogan 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.
• 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.
• Understand and engage with your customers.
• Focus on outcomes over outputs, incorporating design thinking methods and analytics to inform product design.
• Coordinate engagement between Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architects, and Functional Architects within the Agile teams to foster proactive design conversations.
• Collaborate across teams and with other Product Owners to align the customer journey and dependent backlogs.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable
• Complete other related duties as assigned

Managerial/Supervisory Responsibilities:

No direct management responsibility, but while an individual contributor, the jobholder must manage activities through influence, accountability and ownership, functioning in an agile environment

Education and Experience Required:

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 4 years' business, analytical, technical and/or product experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years' higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years' business, analytical, technical and/or product experience

Location
Buffalo, New York, United States of America