Agilist

U.S. Bank; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bancorp India is seeking an Agileist to partner with product teams and deliver outcomes. You will drive sprint planning, dependency management, and quarterly roadmaps while embedding agile values across the organization.

The role emphasizes customer-focused discovery, cross-functional coordination, and coaching teams to improve delivery metrics and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in agile product development.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into executable plans.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering.
• Experience with metrics, KPIs, and customer discovery.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of high-priority digital initiatives and sprint planning.
• Coordinate quarterly product and team planning across partners.
• Enable continuous discovery, experiments, and data-driven evolution.
• Coach teams on agile practices and mature the organization’s cadence.
• Align roadmaps with OKRs and governance while ensuring compliance.
• Lead agile ceremonies and maintain team agreements.
• Support product management routines and portfolio alignment.

Skills

Agile coaching

Agile product development

Agile portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Dragonboat

Mural

Job description

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

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. At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. 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. Bank 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.