Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Agilist to support product, business, and technology teams in delivering customer-centric solutions that create measurable business value. This role is ideal for an experienced Agile practitioner who thrives in complex environments, drives continuous improvement, enables high-performing teams, and helps translate strategic objectives into successful product outcomes.

As an Agilist, you will serve as a trusted partner to Product Managers, Marketers and Business Stakeholders, ensuring Agile principles, product thinking, and continuous delivery practices are embedded into everyday work. You will help teams accelerate value delivery, remove impediments, improve predictability, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and innovation.

About the Team
This role supports Consumer Growth Studios within U.S. Bank's Consumer and Business Banking organization and specifically supports the Paid Deposits and Lending marketing studios.

Key Responsibilities

Agile Leadership & Delivery Excellence
• Facilitate and continuously improve Agile delivery practices across multiple product teams.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Analytics and Studio teams to align work with strategic objectives and customer outcomes.
• Drive execution of product roadmaps while ensuring teams remain focused on delivering measurable business value.
• Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and program planning activities.
• Identify and proactively resolve dependencies, risks, impediments, and delivery challenges across teams.
Product & Program Enablement
• Support product discovery efforts focused on customer needs, business outcomes, and experimentation.
• Help teams establish and track Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), key performance indicators, and delivery metrics.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment between product strategy, technology execution, and operational readiness.
• Enable the successful execution of large-scale initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and marketing teams.
• Support portfolio planning, prioritization activities, and strategic roadmap execution.
Coaching & Continuous Improvement
• Champion Agile values, principles, and best practices across the organization.
• Coach teams on Scrum, Kanban methodologies to improve team effectiveness and delivery predictability.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, accountability, and customer obsession.
• Drive process improvement initiatives that simplify workflows, reduce waste, and improve business outcomes.
• Assist in onboarding and developing Agile maturity across new and existing teams.
Governance, Risk & Operational Excellence
• Support operational processes including team planning, resource coordination, funding support, vendor engagement, and growth studio reporting.
• Maintain transparency through dashboards, reporting, and actionable metrics.
• Ensure evidence, documentation, and regulatory requirements are managed effectively throughout the product lifecycle.
Agile Tooling & Analytics
• Utilize Agile management and collaboration tools including:

• Jira
• Confluence
• Dragonboat
• Mural
• Microsoft Office Suite

• Develop and monitor delivery metrics, velocity trends, dependency tracking, and continuous improvement indicators.
• Provide actionable insights that improve team performance and customer outcomes.

Basic Qualifications

• Agile product development, agile coaching, agile portfolio management experience

Preferred Skills/Experience
• 3+ years of experience working in Agile delivery, program management, product operations, Scrum Master, or Agile coaching roles.
• Experience supporting technical programs within Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, or Lean.
• Strong understanding of product management principles, customer-centric delivery, and strategic execution.
• Experience partnering with software engineering, architecture, and technology teams.
• Knowledge of banking, financial services, payments, lending, digital banking, or related financial products.
• Familiarity with funding models, portfolio management, and capitalizable technology initiatives.
• Advanced experience with Jira, Confluence, and Agile reporting tools.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and facilitation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including executive-level stakeholder engagement.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across large organizations.

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

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. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• 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.

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. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $105,400.00 - $124,000.00

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