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The Product Owner II 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 II 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.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nBuild and own the large product or set of products vision and roadmap that aligns with the overall strategic intent and communicate them with the team and all stakeholders. Prioritize the backlog(s) based on the overall product vision and strategy.\nRepresent 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.\nWrite 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).\nWork directly with the delivery team to create appropriate information radiators and other communication tools for internal team and stakeholder use to show progress on a large product or multiple products.\nParticipate in all team activities and ceremonies.\nUse a matrixed influencing approach to work with essential business partners throughout the organization, often at a more senior level and irrespective of hierarchy or divisions, advocating for the benefit of the customer.\nUnderstand and engage with your customers.\nFocus on outcomes over outputs, incorporating design thinking methods and analytics to inform product design. Due to the scope of these product(s), these efforts are often more complex.\nCollaborate across teams and with other Product Owners to align the customer journey and dependent backlogs.\nMay act on behalf of the Senior Product Owner as required by absence.\nUnderstand 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.\nPromote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.\nMaintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable\nComplete other related duties as assigned\nManagerial/Supervisory Responsibilities:\nNo direct management responsibility, but while an individual contributor, the jobholder must manage activities through influence, accountability and ownership, functioning in an agile environment.\nEducation and Experience Required:\nBachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6 years’ business, analytical, technical and/or product experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 10 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 6 years’ business, analytical, technical and/or product experience\nEducation and Experience Preferred:\nPrior experience prioritizing across competing priorities and quickly-changing landscape\nPrior experience actively seeking out multiple opinions, yet making independent decisions and influencing positive outcomes\nUnderstanding of Design Thinking principles\nKnowledge of product design and development best practices\nKnowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices\nExperience working in partnership with user experience teams on product design\nExperience developing/managing digital capabilities\nStrong verbal and written communication skills\nSpecific subject matter expertise as required by assigned product\nM&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. 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