Senior Agilist - Product Group (Banking Foundation)

Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels. Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection. Overview   The Product Senior Agilist owns the delivery and transformation system for a Product Group, ensuring predictable execution across multiple Agile Teams , and   manages the Team Agilists   in the Product Group , ensuring consistent execution discipline, system transparency, and continuous advancement of Radiance maturity.   This role ensures that flow, alignment, and continuous improvement are   established   at the   P roduct   Group   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   Establish and   operate   the 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 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   Group   Leadership Team (PLT).   Help the Product   Group   team integrate with the Portfolio and navigate complexity.   Collaborate with Portfolio   and Product Area   Leadership   Teams   to drive Product and Portfolio success.    Coach Product   Group   Managers in effective Agile road-mapping and backlog management.   Collaborate with   other   Product Group   Agilist s   across the entire portfolio   to ensure practices are consistent with organizational standards a…