Agilist

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.

As an Agilist, you will:

• 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

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