Agilist 3

300 U.S. Bank National Association; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Agilist to drive Agile practices and product-focused outcomes across multiple teams in Minnesota.

This role emphasizes coaching, delivery governance, and driving organizational change toward lean and scalable Agile methods. You will partner with Product, Technology, Digital, and Risk to align strategy, plan roadmaps, and measure outcomes while guiding teams through sprint planning, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Agile product development, agile coaching, agile portfolio management experience
• Experience in Agile coaching, mentoring, and Agile transformation.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Lean-Agile, SAFe, and Agile scaling methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of product management, product development, product discovery, and SDLC.
• Experience with Agile portfolio management, strategic planning, OKRs, product roadmaps, dependency management, and continuous improvement.
• Strong facilitation, executive communication, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and organizational change skills.
• Ability to leverage data, metrics, flow measures, and performance insights to improve delivery and business outcomes.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Dragonboat, Mural, and related Agile planning tools; Visual Studio experience is a plus.
• Experience in regulated environments, preferably financial services; Agile certifications such as SPC/SPC6, RTE, CST, CEC, PMI-ACP, or PMP are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Champion an Agile and Product mindset, enabling teams to deliver customer-focused outcomes through Agile values, principles, and practices.
• Partner with Product Management, Technology, Digital, and business teams to align product vision, planning, discovery, and delivery.
• Enable customer-focused discovery and experimentation, using outcomes and feedback loops to continuously evolve product strategy.
• Lead Agile practices including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, roadmapping, and team working agreements.
• Coach teams on Agile ways of working, prioritization, MVPs, personas, story mapping, and continuous improvement.
• Drive Agile portfolio planning, including OKRs, dependency mapping, cross-team coordination, roadmaps, and key success metrics.
• Establish and monitor Agile, product, and customer outcome metrics to identify opportunities to improve discovery, delivery, and team effectiveness.
• Partner across Product and Risk to support governance, audit, funding, staffing, vendor management, and team planning aligned with strategic business objectives.

Skills

Agile product dev

Agile coaching

Scrum

Kanban

OKRs

Stakeholder mgmt

Data-driven decisions

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Dragonboat

Mural

Visual Studio

Job description

Job Introduction

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.

Job Description

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. 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.

Key Responsibilities

Champion an Agile and Product mindset, enabling teams to deliver customer-focused outcomes through Agile values, principles, and practices. Partner with Product Management, Technology, Digital, and business teams to align product vision, planning, discovery, and delivery. Enable customer-focused discovery and experimentation, using outcomes and feedback loops to continuously evolve product strategy. Lead Agile practices including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, roadmapping, and team working agreements. Coach teams on Agile ways of working, prioritization, MVPs, personas, story mapping, and continuous improvement. Drive Agile portfolio planning, including OKRs, dependency mapping, cross-team coordination, roadmaps, and key success metrics. Establish and monitor Agile, product, and customer outcome metrics to identify opportunities to improve discovery, delivery, and team effectiveness. Partner across Product and Risk to support governance, audit, funding, staffing, vendor management, and team planning aligned with strategic business objectives.

Basic Qualifications

• Agile product development, agile coaching, agile portfolio management experience
• Experience in Agile coaching, mentoring, and Agile transformation.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Lean-Agile, SAFe, and Agile scaling methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of product management, product development, product discovery, and SDLC.
• Experience with Agile portfolio management, strategic planning, OKRs, product roadmaps, dependency management, and continuous improvement.
• Strong facilitation, executive communication, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and organizational change skills.
• Ability to leverage data, metrics, flow measures, and performance insights to improve delivery and business outcomes.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Dragonboat, Mural, and related Agile planning tools; Visual Studio experience is a plus.
• Experience in regulated environments, preferably financial services; Agile certifications such as SPC/SPC6, RTE, CST, CEC, PMI-ACP, or PMP are preferred.

*This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship*

Location Expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. 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.

Benefits

• 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
• Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

Salary Range

Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00

Background Checks and Eligibility

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures. Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

Job Introduction (Reiterated)

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.