Product Management Team Lead-Agile Delivery/ 100% Remote

Zions Bancorporation
Houston, TX 77027

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Did you know that Zions Bancorporation is one of the nation’s premier financial services companies with total assets exceeding $70 billion? With local management teams at the helm in 11 western states, Zions is dedicated to making a difference in their local communities. At Zions, we haven’t forgotten who keeps us in business, meaning we’re committed to the success of our customers, and our employees. Here, the possibilities are endless – come for a job, stay for a career.

Zions Bancorporation is seeking an Agile Delivery Product Manager to join its team working with the Payments and Treasury Agile Release Train (ART). Delivery Product Managers are responsible for coordinating Features through the kanban system at a Program / ART level. They collaboratively work with Epic Owners and additional Product Manager and Technical SMEs within Payments and Treasury to understand intent of Epics, and thereby work with Product Owners to share the related priority of Features.

Responsibilities:
Responsible for coordinating Features through the system at a Program / Agile Release Train (ART) level

Responsible to prioritize the features based on delivery against the Epic priorities

Responsible and accountable to facilitate Feature definition

Create, own, and manage the Program/ART backlog, constantly collaborating with customers and the team to ensure work items are refined and prioritized

Continuously engage with the business, technology, and other key stakeholders to stay informed, nurturing strong and trusting relationships and increasing business knowledge to represent product vision and customer/business needs to the team

Accountable to coordinate feature prioritization across a program when dependencies arise

Accountable to coordinate trade-off discussions when conflicting Epic, Feature, Maintenance and Enabler priorities arise

Responsible for accepting feature completion (i.e. achieving acceptance criteria demonstrated in system or team demos)

Collaborate with the team for demos and delivery of team commitments

Accountable to provide insights into the commitments for value delivered by the ART

Help identify organizational impediments and works with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them

Responsible to work with Architecture to identify and prioritize Enablers (features) or work needed to delivery on epic or feature priorities

Accountable and responsible to facilitates Feature Review in advance of PI Planning event to promote prioritization alignment

Exemplify agile principles, encourage good practices, encourage, and assist team to continue to develop and mature in agile practices and methodologies

Help to identify and raise obstacles and champion/enable self-organizing or high performing teams

Champion mindset changes and belief re-sets required to affect the desired business results

Encourage transparency to the organization to help grow trust

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
Excellent planning, organizational, analytical and communication skills, both written and verbal

Excellent presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, including coaching and mentorship qualities

Excellent decision making, problem resolution, listening and team building skills

Ability to effectively engage with various levels of leadership

Advanced understanding of the broader product development lifecycle in large enterprise settings

Experience as a Delivery Product Manager in a large enterprise utilizing scaling practices, building complex solutions using teams of teams, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), contributing to successful value delivery & agile methodology experience

Expert knowledge of the agile frameworks & scaling models, Agile Values and Principles and the Scrum Methodology including iteration planning, backlog refinement, daily stand ups, iteration reviews and system demos, iteration retrospectives, PI Planning, Demos, Inspect & Adapt Workshops, Scrum-of-Scrums, PO Sync, and ART Sync

Bachelor's degree in information systems, mathematics, computer science or a related field & 4-6 + years’ experience contributing to strategic creation & building out of products, accelerating value delivery to customers, working with cross-functional teams to realize products, employing innovative mindsets & practices to product development (design-thinking, lean startup approach, MVP, rapid prototyping, frequent feedback cycles, customer centricity).

Working knowledge in multiple agile practices: Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, XDD, Scrum@Scale, Nexus, SAFe, etc.

Experience with Agile work item management tools, such as JIRA, Azure Dev Ops (ADO), or similar tools preferred

A combination of education & experience may meet requirements

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