Portfolio Manager/Agile Coach

 

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

Risk & Compliance Technology

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to build modern, customer-focused technology solutions that strengthen risk management, compliance, and operational resilience. We are seeking a Portfolio Manager / Agile Coach who will help drive strategic initiatives while enabling teams to adopt and mature agile ways of working.

This role blends portfolio management, agile coaching, delivery leadership, and strategic planning. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable partnering with senior executives on investment planning and governance as they are coaching delivery teams to improve flow, predictability, and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio Leadership & Governance

• Partner with Technology, Product, Risk, and Compliance leaders to manage strategic investment portfolios and technology roadmaps.
• Support annual planning, investment approvals, forecasting, and financial management activities.
• Monitor portfolio health, dependencies, risks, and delivery outcomes across multiple initiatives and teams.
• Facilitate executive reviews, roadmap discussions, prioritization sessions, and governance forums.
• Drive transparency through portfolio metrics, reporting, capacity planning, and performance measurement.
• Support technology investment decisions by analyzing financial, resource, and delivery impacts.

Agile Coaching & Delivery Excellence

• Coach teams, leaders, and stakeholders on Agile principles, Lean delivery practices, and product-centric operating models.
• Facilitate key agile ceremonies including planning, retrospectives, reviews, dependency management, and quarterly planning activities.
• Help teams improve delivery predictability, quality, and customer outcomes through continuous improvement practices.
• Identify and remove organizational impediments that limit team effectiveness.
• Partner with Product Managers, Technology Leaders, and Business Partners to align priorities and outcomes.
• Promote agile metrics and data-driven decision making to improve flow and value delivery.

Strategic Planning & Transformation

• Support multi-year technology planning and roadmap development.
• Lead cross-functional efforts to align resources, funding, and delivery approaches with business priorities.
• Drive organizational change initiatives supporting modernization, regulatory compliance, risk reduction, and operational efficiency.
• Assist with workforce planning, vendor management, budgeting, and resource optimization activities.
• Enable successful execution of major transformation programs across Risk and Compliance domains.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build trusted relationships with executives, business leaders, product owners, and technology teams.
• Communicate complex information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Facilitate alignment across teams with competing priorities and dependencies.
• Influence without authority while fostering collaboration and accountability.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting Risk, Compliance, Fraud, AML, GRC, Regulatory, Audit, or operational risk technology initiatives.
• Strong financial management and technology investment planning experience.
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar portfolios and technology roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to coach teams and leaders through organizational transformation.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Clarity, Azure DevOps, or similar planning and delivery tools.
• Knowledge of regulatory and control requirements within the financial services industry.
• Agile certifications (SAFe, SPC, ICP-ACC, CSM, PMI-ACP, or equivalent) preferred.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, and executive communication skills.

Success Measures

In this role, success is demonstrated by:

• Improved portfolio transparency and delivery predictability.
• Strong alignment between business priorities and technology investments.
• Effective management of risks, dependencies, and resource capacity.
• Increased agile maturity and adoption across teams.
• Delivery of strategic initiatives that improve regulatory compliance, operational effectiveness, and customer outcomes.

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: 

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.

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.

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

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.