Appian Forward Deployed Product Owner

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🏈 Alabama – Remote

🏈 Alabama – Remote

💵 $148.3k - $247.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

✅ Product Manager

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M&T Bank

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1856

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

🏦 Banking

Insurance • Consulting • Banking

M&T Bank is a leading regional financial institution that provides a wide range of banking services to personal, business, and commercial clients. Known for its customer satisfaction in mobile banking, M&T Bank offers products and services such as checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages, personal loans, and insurance. Additionally, it provides financial planning through Wilmington Advisors @ M&T. The bank is committed to community engagement, supporting local businesses, multicultural banking, and volunteerism. With a focus on cybersecurity and digital banking solutions, M&T Bank serves its clientele through comprehensive online and mobile services.

📋 Description

• Design, configure, and improve business process workflows using Appian Designer • Partner with business product owners, operations leaders, technology teams, and risk partners to gather requirements, map processes, define user needs, and prioritize improvements • Own and manage product backlog items, including user stories, acceptance criteria, specifications, process flows, UI concepts, test scenarios, and release-ready requirements • Lead stakeholder working sessions to define current-state and future-state workflows, identify friction points, iterate on MVP designs, resolve issues, and drive alignment • Evaluate opportunities to reuse shared capabilities across workflows and business areas • Use AI-assisted and agentic AI tools for discovery, process analysis, documentation, prototyping, testing, defect analysis, and communications • Apply design thinking, analytics, business process engineering, and user feedback to product decisions and continuous improvement • Support QA, UAT, regression testing, production validation, defect documentation, and release readiness • Partner with technology teams on integrations, data dependencies, security, platform constraints, and production support • Keep current with Appian capabilities and recommend responsible applications of new capabilities • Champion Appian governance, reusability, modular design, versioning, packaging, maintainability, and controlled delivery • Participate in agile ceremonies including standups, planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives • Build and maintain Appian reports and dashboards for workflow performance, user activity, operational quality, and business metrics • Adhere to risk and regulatory standards, policies, controls, and escalation requirements • Maintain internal control standards and implement audit and regulatory issue resolutions • Promote belonging and reflect the M&T Bank brand • Complete other related duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years’ business, analytical, technical, digital product, transformation, or product ownership experience; or, in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 14 years’ higher education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 10 years’ relevant experience • Hands-on experience with Appian, including building, configuring, testing, or supporting workflows, forms, interfaces, records, process models, reports, dashboards, or related Appian objects • Experience in financial services and/or fintech, including exposure to regulated business processes and related domains • Experience as a product owner, product analyst, business analyst, transformation lead, or workflow designer in an agile or iterative delivery environment • Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, specifications, process flows, business rules, UI concepts, testing scenarios, or release documentation • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Exposure to QA, UAT, regression testing, defect triage, test case development, production validation, or other solution quality practices • Working knowledge of AI-assisted tools or agentic AI concepts and responsible use of AI • Ability to bridge business and technical teams and explain constraints, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently in a fast-paced, regulated transformation environment • Appian Level 1 or higher certification, or equivalent hands-on experience with Appian Designer (preferred) • Familiarity with SAIL expressions (preferred) • Understanding of Appian reusability, versioning, packaging, release management, performance, and governance (preferred) • Experience with Appian AI, Case Management Studio, RPA, data fabric, connected systems, integrations, or document management workflows (preferred) • Experience with agentic AI or AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Open Claw, or Hermes (preferred) • Experience with other low-code/no-code platforms (preferred) • Strong understanding of process mapping, process engineering, service design, user journey design, and operational improvement methods (preferred) • Experience developing or launching digital capabilities in financial services or related domains (preferred) • Experience partnering with UX, design, data, architecture, cybersecurity, risk, legal, compliance, or operations teams (preferred) • Knowledge of Agile, Lean, design thinking, systems thinking, and continuous improvement principles (preferred)