As a Product Design Lead on the M&T Experience Design & Innovation team, you will lead experience strategy and product design across complex customer and colleague experiences.
Working closely with Product, Technology, Research, and business partners, you will uncover customer needs, shape product direction, and create experiences that drive meaningful customer and business outcomes.
This role requires a strategic design leader who can guide teams through ambiguity, influence decisions, and turn insights into action.
Primary Responsibilities:
Lead experience strategy, discovery, and design efforts across products, services, and customer journeys.
Define and communicate experience vision through research, journey mapping, information architecture, content strategy, and service design.
This role will establish and evolve foundational experience assets across Commercial Treasury experiences, including customer understanding, journey frameworks, navigation models, and experience strategies.
The role is expected to guide work across multiple initiatives, influence portfolio direction, and help create a more cohesive end-to-end experience across products, channels, and customer journeys.
Lead, mentor, and potentially manage designers across one or more product areas. Provide coaching, strategic guidance, and design leadership while helping teams deliver high-quality experiences and achieve customer and business outcomes.
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Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Human Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, or similar, and a minimum of 5 years relevant experience or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years education and/or relevant/product design work experience.
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Proven expertise in Product Design/Human-Centered Design
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Experience creating use cases, flow diagrams, prototypes, scenarios and wireframes to communicate ideas and designs to unique groups of stakeholders
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Understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different design thinking methods, including when and how to apply them during product development processes
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Hands-on experience of designing for a variety of digital touchpoints and non-digital channels and supporting the delivery of those designs
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Experience managing programs supporting the full product development process, from vision to launch to iteration
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Project and people management skills; experience functioning as a project leader as well as an individual contributor
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Strong ability to mentor and educate others on the value and principles of good experience design
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Team player who is comfortable navigating ambiguity within a self-directed culture
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Ability to establish strong working relationships with colleagues, clients, and key stakeholders
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Extensive experience conducting remote and in-person workshops; strong familiarity with supporting tools such as Miro and Webex
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Experience with design and prototyping tools such as Adobe, Sketch, InVision, Figma or other similar tools used widely in the design community
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Proficiency in industry best practices for desktop, mobile and web applications
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Experience with accessibility standards, cross-platform issues, mobile user interfaces and systems-thinking
Customer-centric mindset with a deep understanding of customer needs, behaviors, motivations, and pain points.
Systems thinking with an understanding of how products, channels, journeys, and processes connect into an end-to-end experience.
M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $103,000.00 - $171,600.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
