Agilist
U.S. Bancorp · 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 new 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.
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.