The Role
The Agilist coaches product teams on Agile methods, values, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include facilitating ceremonies, managing roadmaps, OKRs, backlogs, dependencies, metrics, governance, audit evidence, portfolio activities, team staffing, and vendor coordination. The role partners closely with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders, and risk teams to support customer-focused discovery, product strategy, delivery, and organizational culture change.
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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 new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
Job DescriptionAgilists at U.S. Bank are customer obsessed with a focus on serving product teams, ensuring all product vision, planning and development activities are rooted in Agile and Product Values & Principles. Agilist enables the organization to consistently experiment and evolve business strategy based on prior outcomes and feedback. They drive culture change through day to day to work with a focus on Agile & Product mindset, values and continuous improvement and keep the team focused on achieving product goals using agile methods. As an Agilist, you will:
-Drive delivery by enabling the product/team to consistently conduct discovery focused on the customer, experiment and evolve product strategy based on prior outcomes and feedback loops.
-Own the agile practices of the team/product group/journey including cross-portfolio impacts, planning, dependency maps, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and key metrics for success in partnership with Product Management, business partners, digital and technology modelling agile methods, values, and principles.
-Champion and coach on agile ways of working and mindset. Focuses on agile methods for prioritization, supports product management routines such as QPP, scaling the Shield Way of Working Toolkit, and builds the expertise of the team through coaching and training.
-Implement and lead tactics using agile tools for product roadmaps, OKRs, sprint planning, backlog refinement and collaboration (tools include JIRA, Confluence, Dragonboat, Mural, KYT metrics).
-Owns agile tactics such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, working agreements, charters, team routines, team rosters, dependency maps in partnership with product management.
-Refine Definition of Done, MVP (coaching), Personas, and Story Maps and supports refining the backlog as a member of the team.
-Own and drive agile portfolio management tasks.
-Manage and simplify governance, audit and evidence aspects of delivering product work in support of the strategic roadmaps and business objectives in partnership with product management and risk management.
-Assist with funding, staffing and team rosters including overseeing team kickoff training and vendor management.
-Establish and monitor team/agile metrics to improve the discovery and delivery of the team related to customer outcomes and continuous improvement.
-Drive delivery by enabling the product/team to consistently conduct discovery focused on the customer, experiment and evolve product strategy based on prior outcomes and feedback loops.
-Own the agile practices of the team/product group/journey including cross-portfolio impacts, planning, dependency maps, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and key metrics for success in partnership with Product Management, business partners, digital and technology modelling agile methods, values, and principles.
-Champion and coach on agile ways of working and mindset. Focuses on agile methods for prioritization, supports product management routines such as QPP, scaling the Shield Way of Working Toolkit, and builds the expertise of the team through coaching and training.
-Implement and lead tactics using agile tools for product roadmaps, OKRs, sprint planning, backlog refinement and collaboration (tools include JIRA, Confluence, Dragonboat, Mural, KYT metrics).
-Owns agile tactics such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, working agreements, charters, team routines, team rosters, dependency maps in partnership with product management.
-Refine Definition of Done, MVP (coaching), Personas, and Story Maps and supports refining the backlog as a member of the team.
-Own and drive agile portfolio management tasks.
-Manage and simplify governance, audit and evidence aspects of delivering product work in support of the strategic roadmaps and business objectives in partnership with product management and risk management.
-Assist with funding, staffing and team rosters including overseeing team kickoff training and vendor management.
-Establish and monitor team/agile metrics to improve the discovery and delivery of the team related to customer outcomes and continuous improvement.
Basic Qualifications
-Agile product development, agile coaching, agile portfolio management experience
-Agile product development, agile coaching, agile portfolio management experience
Preferred Skills/Experience
-Expertise on the critical interdependencies among product model system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results using business metrics, key performance indicators, design systems, service blueprints, and reusability
-Demonstrates deep understanding of target customer through internal/external research and discovery (e.g., creation of personas, story maps, product chartering/mapping experience)
-Strong collaboration with product managers and software engineers to execute product vision and roadmap
-Facilitation of cross-functional human-centered design sessions to build empathy for users, create alignment on customer pain-points, and to identify continuous improvements for the product roadmap
-Preferred skills: product strategy, vision and planning, product discovery, product development, channel alignment and management, adoption, performance measurement and optimization, marketing and analytics
-Expertise on the critical interdependencies among product model system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results using business metrics, key performance indicators, design systems, service blueprints, and reusability
-Demonstrates deep understanding of target customer through internal/external research and discovery (e.g., creation of personas, story maps, product chartering/mapping experience)
-Strong collaboration with product managers and software engineers to execute product vision and roadmap
-Facilitation of cross-functional human-centered design sessions to build empathy for users, create alignment on customer pain-points, and to identify continuous improvements for the product roadmap
-Preferred skills: product strategy, vision and planning, product discovery, product development, channel alignment and management, adoption, performance measurement and optimization, marketing and analytics
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This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.
Skills Required
- Experience in agile product development
- Experience in agile coaching
- Experience in agile portfolio management
- Expertise in product model system interdependencies and synchronizing resources using business metrics, KPIs, design systems, service blueprints, and reusability
- Experience conducting customer research and discovery, including personas, story maps, and product chartering or mapping
- Strong collaboration with product managers and software engineers to execute product vision and roadmaps
- Experience facilitating cross-functional, human-centered design sessions
- Skills in product strategy, vision and planning, product discovery, channel alignment, adoption, performance measurement, optimization, marketing, and analytics
US Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about US Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by US Bank.
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Retirement Support — The package pairs a pension with a matched 401(k), strengthening long‑term financial security. Retirement programs and other financial safeguards are presented as comprehensive.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, sick time, numerous holidays, and dedicated volunteer hours provide meaningful time away. Additional time off with tenure and options to expand PTO bolster flexibility.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA/FSA options and wellness resources are described as robust. Health insurance is characterized as top‑notch in multiple descriptions.
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