Senior Agilist

About the role

Agilists 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. Agilists enable the organization to consistently experiment and evolve business strategy based on prior outcomes and feedback. They drive culture change through day-to-day work with a focus on Agile & Product mindset, values and continuous improvement, and keep the team focused on achieving product goals using agile methods.

Responsibilities

• 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. Focus on agile methods for prioritization, support product management routines such as QPP, scaling the Shield Way of Working Toolkit, and build 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).
• Own 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 support 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.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications: Agile product development, agile coaching, agile portfolio management experience.

Skills

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 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.

Schedule

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

Pay

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. Pay Range: $126,820.00 - $149,200.00.

Benefits

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. Our benefits include:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision).
• Basic term and optional term life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave.
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan.
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure).
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities.
• Adoption assistance.
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.