16 Sep
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U.S. Bank
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Chennai
At U.S. Bancorp India, we're on a journey to do our best. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bancorp India gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try current things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One. **Job Description** **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. Bank
📍 Chennai