Senior Product Leader, SVP (Enterprise Transformation Enablement) - Hybrid

M&T Bank • Buffalo, NY

13d • Hybrid

About The Position

Overview: Are you a strategic, visionary product leader passionate about driving cultural transformation and enabling agility at scale? Join our Transformation Enablement team as a Senior Product Leader, where you’ll lead the product strategy behind “The Way We Work” – our enterprise-wide initiative to evolve mindsets, behaviors, and practices across the organization. In this high-impact role, you’ll oversee a suite of internal-facing products and experiences (inclusive of applications, tooling and learning) that empower teams to work more collaboratively, iteratively, and customer-centricly. You’ll manage a team of Product Owners and delivery teams, guiding the design, development, and execution of a roadmap that supports organizational agility, change management, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• 10 or more years’ business, analytical, technical and/or product experience
• Demonstrated success in leading high-performing teams, with direct people management responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years of product management experience, including 5-7 years leading product owners.
• Proven success managing internal-facing products and experience-driven solutions.
• Deep understanding of Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking principles.
• Strong background in change management, process improvement, and organizational transformation.
• Agile and Change Management certifications preferred.
• Strategic thinker with a visionary mindset and the ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
• Experience leading application design and configuration in systems such as Service Now, Miro, and Jira.
• Passionate about cultural change and enabling teams to thrive in modern ways of working.
• Experience with application based AI implementations

Responsibilities

• Lead the Product Vision & Strategy for internal transformation offerings that support enterprise agility and cultural change.
• Own and evolve the product roadmap for tools and learning experiences that enable “The Way We Work” across the bank.
• Lead and develop a team of 3-5 direct-report Product Owners, each of whom are people leaders themselves, overseeing a broader organization of 10-15 team members.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity across the full product delivery ecosystem.
• Champion agile practices, design thinking, and change management across the organization, influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Prioritize and align backlogs across multiple teams to ensure delivery of high-impact outcomes.
• Collaborate with UX, engineering, and business partners to design experience-driven solutions that improve how employees work and learn.
• Remove blockers and enable team success through strategic guidance, coaching, and stakeholder engagement.
• Advocate for continuous improvement , process optimization, and scalable transformation practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees