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Overview

Agilists at U.S. Bank are customer-obsessed leaders who enable product teams to deliver meaningful outcomes. They ensure product vision, planning, and development activities are grounded in Agile and Product Values & Principles. Agilists drive continuous experimentation, learning, and evolution of product strategy based on outcomes and feedback. They influence culture through day-to-day engagement, fostering an agile mindset, disciplined execution, and a focus on delivering product goals.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Manage delivery of high-priority digital product initiatives, including quarterly and sprint planning, dependency management, and overall delivery commitments
- Drive quarterly product and team planning, ensuring alignment across product, engineering, and business partners
- Drive delivery by enabling teams to conduct continuous, customer-focused discovery, experiment, and evolve product strategy based on outcomes and feedback loops
- Own and optimize agile practices across the team, product group, or journey, including cross-portfolio coordination, planning, dependency mapping, OKRs, and success metrics in partnership with Product Management, business partners, digital, and technology teams
- Champion and coach agile ways of working,



embedding agile principles into prioritization, planning, and execution while strengthening team capabilities through coaching and training
- Enable effective product management routines (e.g., QPP) and scale enterprise ways of working (e.g., Shield Way of Working Toolkit)
- Utilize and drive adoption of agile tools and practices for product roadmaps, OKRs, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and collaboration (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Dragonboat, Mural, KYT metrics)
- Lead and facilitate core agile ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, and maintain team working agreements, charters, and rosters
- Support product development practices including Definition of Done, MVP coaching, personas, story mapping, and backlog refinement
- Lead agile portfolio management activities to align delivery with strategic priorities
- Simplify governance, audit, and evidence processes while ensuring compliance with risk and regulatory expectations
- Support funding, staffing, team formation, onboarding, and vendor management
- Establish and monitor team performance metrics to improve both discovery and delivery outcomes, with a focus on customer impact and continuous improvement

Basic Qualifications

- Experience in agile product development, agile coaching,



and/or agile portfolio management
- Relevant exp - 7 - 10yrs

Required Skills & Experience

- Strong proficiency in JIRA and Confluence for planning, tracking, and collaboration
- Deep understanding of the product model and agile delivery methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- Proven experience in project, program, or delivery management, including planning, dependency management, and execution of complex initiatives

Preferred Skills / Experience

- Expertise managing delivery against committed deadlines in a highly matrixed organization
- Expertise in managing complex dependencies across product teams and aligning prioritization to deliver business outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into executable product plans using metrics, KPIs, service blueprints, and reusable design patterns
- Strong understanding of customer needs through research and discovery methods (e.g., personas, story mapping, product charters)
- Proven collaboration with product managers and engineering teams to execute product vision and roadmap
- Knowledge of product strategy, product discovery, product delivery, channel alignment, adoption, performance measurement, and optimization

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants -https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/disability-accommodations-for-applicants. Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.

📌 Agilist (Chennai)
🏢 U.S. Bancorp India
📍 Chennai