Senior Agilist - Product Group (Banking Foundation)

Overview

The Product Senior Agilist owns the delivery and transformation system for a Product Group, ensuring predictable execution across multiple Agile Teams, andmanages the Team Agilistsin the Product Group, ensuring consistent execution discipline, system transparency, and continuous advancement of Radiance maturity.This role ensures that flow, alignment, and continuous improvement areestablishedat theProductGrouplevel. Acting as the facilitator of cross-team events and a coach for product, design and engineering leadership, the Product Agilist drives the product transformation, orchestrates planning and delivery across teams, resolves systemic impediments, leads risk management, and ensures that practices are consistent with organizational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish andoperatethe Product Group planning and execution cadence, including PI Planning, Release Management, Work Intake governance, and Inspect & Adapt.

• Lead transformation and execution of a Product (team of teams).Cultivate and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams byleveragingexceptional communication and employing advanced coaching and mentoring techniques

• Effectively leading global products involves managing relationships at an enterprise level, cultivating long-term, mutually beneficial relationships to enhance the outcomes of products at scale

• Support alignment across multiple Agile Teams by making dependencies visible, escalating systemic impediments,managecross-team risks, and driving coordinated delivery.

• Partner with Product, Design and Engineering Managers to ensure clarity of priorities, effective planning, and risk mitigation.

• Serve as a member of the ProductGroupLeadership Team (PLT).

• Help the ProductGroupteam integrate with the Portfolio and navigate complexity.

• Collaborate with Portfolioand Product AreaLeadershipTeamsto drive Product and Portfolio success.

• Coach ProductGroupManagers in effective Agile road-mapping and backlog management.

• Collaborate withotherProduct GroupAgilistsacross the entire portfolioto ensure practices are consistent with organizational standards andframework.

• Lead and develop the Team Agilists within the Product Group, ensuring strong execution discipline, consistent Radiance practices, and continuous development of team-level delivery leadership.

• Ensure transparent execution tracking across the Product Group, including readiness, delivery progress, predictability, risks, and impediments, enabling the Product Group Leadership Team to maketimelydecisions.Applyand improve organizational standards andidentifyopportunities for change.

• Coach the Product Leadership Team in Agile principles and flow-based delivery.

• Activelyparticipatein the Agilists Community of Practice (CoP) to share learnings and promote continuous improvement, leading areas of our practice transformation.

• Foster a culture of continuous learning within the organization to proactively build and develop its knowledge base

• Maintain transparent execution visibility for the Product Group Leadership Team through delivery metrics, risk tracking, and readiness signals.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Agile leadership, with at least 1 year having responsibility over an entire team-of-teams, agile program or product.

• Provensuccessfacilitatingand aligning multiple teams around sharedobjectivesand cadences.

• Mastery of several Agile product,processand technical practices (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Crystal, Amplio).

• Demonstrable experience with and operational knowledge of several team-of-teams Lean and Agile methods and scaling practices (Kanban,SAFe,LeSS, Nexus,ToC).

• Demonstrated ability toidentifyand resolve systemic impedimentsimpactingmultiple teams.

• Ability to clarify their product needs, challenges, and opportunities, articulate atransformationvision, and pursue it.

• Skilled in facilitation, servantleadership, and conflict resolution.

• Experience in product development (new product introduction and mature product sustaining).

• Experience working with Product Managers and Engineering Managers in a technology-driven environment.

• Skilled in using Agile metrics to inform decision-making and continuous improvement.

• Coached senior leaders and stakeholders (director level and above preferred)

• Led multi-team change initiatives and coached other facilitators and change agents

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, SaaS, or other fast-paced technology industries.

• Familiarity with lean portfolio management and product governance practices.

Core Competencies

• Facilitation at Scale– Brings together multiple teams and functions toalign onobjectivesand outcomes.

• Servant Leadership– Builds trust, empowers others, and removes barriers to success.

• Coaching Mindset– Guides Team Agilists, Product Leaders, and Engineers in Agile practices.

• Systems Thinking– Recognizes interdependencies and works tooptimizeflow across teams.

• Continuous Improvement– Drives learning, adaptation, and the evolution of practices across the product to enhance value delivery and team maturity.

Reporting & Relationships

• Reports to: Lead Agilist

• Collaborators: Product Manager, Engineering Manager(s), Team Agilists, Designers

• Peers: Other Product Agilists