Product Agilist

Candescent is the leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions. We are transforming digital banking with intelligent, cloud-powered solutions that connect account opening, digital banking, and branch experiences for financial institutions. Our advanced technology and developer tools enable seamless, differentiated customer journeys that elevate trust, service, and innovation. Success here requires flexibility in a fast-paced environment, a client-first mindset, and a commitment to delivering consistent, reliable results as part of a performance-driven, values-led team. With team members around the world, Candescent is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Title: Product Group Agilist

Level: Product (team-of-teams)

Location: [Insert Location or Remote/Hybrid option]

Reports to: Lead Agilist

Overview

The Product Agilist enables agility across a product that is delivered by multiple Agile Teams. This role ensures that flow, alignment, and continuous improvement are established at the product level. 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

• Facilitate product-level Program Increment (PI) Planning, Inspect & Adapt workshops, Release Management and Work Intake Management.
• Lead transformation and execution of a Product (team of teams). Cultivate and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams by leveraging exceptional 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, manage cross-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 Product Leadership Team (PLT).
• Help the Product team integrate with the Portfolio and navigate complexity.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Leadership to drive Product and Portfolio success.
• Coach Product Managers in effective Agile road-mapping and backlog management.
• Collaborate with the Lead Agilist to ensure practices are consistent with organizational standards and framework.
• Guide Team Agilists in applying Agile practices consistently and effectively within their teams.
• Drive visibility into product-level metrics, predictability, and performance, enabling data-driven decisions. Maintain transparency through regular communication of agile outcomes and impediments to stakeholders.
• Apply and improve organizational standards and identify opportunities for change.
• Coach the Product Leadership Team in Agile principles and flow-based delivery.
• Actively participate in 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
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Agile leadership, with at least 1 year having responsibility over an entire team-of-teams, agile program or product.
• Proven success facilitating and aligning multiple teams around shared objectives and cadences.
• Mastery of several Agile product, process and 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 to identify and resolve systemic impediments impacting multiple teams.
• Ability to clarify their product needs, challenges, and opportunities, articulate a transformation vision, and pursue it.
• Skilled in facilitation, servant leadership, 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 to align on objectives and 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 to optimize flow 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
  
  

Statement to Third Party Agencies

To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.

---