Candescent · 9 hours ago
Product Agilist
Elkhart County, IN
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expCandescent is the leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions. The Product Agilist enables agility across a product delivered by multiple Agile Teams, ensuring flow, alignment, and continuous improvement while facilitating cross-team events and coaching leadership.
BankingFinancial ServicesSaaS
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
Qualification
Required
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
Experience in fintech, SaaS, or other fast-paced technology industries
Familiarity with lean portfolio management and product governance practices
Company
Candescent
Candescent is a digital banking platform that offers online banking, account openings, and digital transaction services.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (7)
Funding
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Late StageLeadership Team
Donald Chesnut
Chief Design Officer
Gareth Gaston
Chief Product Officer
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