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Location:
4910 Tiedeman Road, Brooklyn Ohio
Job Summary
The Agile Project Manager leads mid to large, high-priority initiatives that impact multiple Lines of Business (LOBs) and/or functional areas and require strong integration across technology, operations, and business teams.
This role enables delivery using Agile methodologies while ensuring adherence to KeyBank governance standards, including project & portfolio management tools, risk management, and regulatory oversight. The Agile Project Manager partners with Product Owners, business leaders, and control partners (Risk, Compliance, Audit) to deliver iterative value aligned with strategic objectives while maintaining transparency, auditability, and control effectiveness.
The role acts as a trusted advisor, balancing Agile delivery speed with disciplined governance, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
Agile Delivery & Governance Alignment
- Drive Agile delivery across initiatives while ensuring compliance with KeyBank project governance frameworks.
- Partner with Product Owners and business leaders to define product vision, roadmap, and backlog aligned to business outcomes, regulatory commitments, and risk priorities while focusing on cross-team coordination, governance alignment, and enterprise delivery outcomes.
- Ensure Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe where applicable) are implemented in a manner consistent with governance, documentation, and audit expectations.
- Maintain alignment between Agile delivery artifacts (epics, features, user stories) and required governance deliverables (business cases, approvals, stage gates as applicable).
Planning, Execution & Value Attainment
- Enable iterative planning (sprint/release planning) while ensuring alignment to approved scope, funding, and defined value attainment objectives.
- Support value attainment tracking, ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes aligned to approved investment objectives.
- Manage cross-team, cross-LOB dependencies to ensure coordinated execution within enterprise delivery timelines.
- Ensure impacts to client experience, operational processes, and regulatory obligations are incorporated into delivery plans.
- Accountable for delivery performance metrics including predictability, cycle time, and achievement of value attainment targets.
Stakeholder, Risk & Control Partner Engagement
- Serve as primary liaison across business stakeholders, technology teams, and control partners (Risk, Compliance, Legal).
- Provide transparent, structured reporting aligned to KeyBank standards, including status, risks, issues, dependencies, and financials.
- Establish and maintain strong trusted advisor relationships across all stakeholder groups, including executive leadership.
- Ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement for regulatory, high-risk, or high-impact initiatives.
- Use dashboards to enable real-time transparency for stakeholders and governance forums.
Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
- Identify, assess, document, and manage risks, issues, and dependencies in alignment with enterprise risk frameworks.
- Ensure risks and issues are escalated appropriately and documented in required systems of record.
- Perform impact analysis and ensure mitigation strategies align with regulatory and operational risk expectations.
- Proactively remove team-level impediments while ensuring enterprise-level risks are governed appropriately.
Change Management & Regulatory Readiness
- Support change management activities, including stakeholder communication, training, and adoption planning.
- Ensure all required documentation, approvals, and controls are in place to support audit and regulatory reviews.
- Partner with control functions to ensure initiatives meet compliance, legal, and risk requirements.
Financial & Resource Management
- Manage initiative financials in alignment with KeyBank standards, including forecasting, budgeting, and funding approvals.
- Monitor resource capacity, utilization, and vendor engagement, ensuring alignment to delivery priorities and budget constraints.
- Ensure cross-team dependencies are actively identified, tracked, and managed, with clear ownership and escalation to maintain alignment across LOBs and prevent impacts to delivery timelines or value attainment.
Continuous Improvement & Agile Enablement
- Champion Agile maturity across teams while aligning to enterprise governance expectations.
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, metrics, and feedback loops.
- Promote standardized use of enterprise tools (e.g., Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, etc.) aligned with reporting and governance needs.
- Support the broader Technology Delivery organization by driving Agile enablement, promoting best practices, and conducting targeted reviews to improve delivery consistency, efficiency, and outcomes.
Required Knowledge & Experience
- Extensive experience delivering initiatives in Agile or hybrid environments preferably within a regulated financial institution.
- Strong understanding of governance frameworks, including project lifecycle controls, risk management, and regulatory expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to balance Agile delivery with structured governance, documentation, and audit readiness.
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and stakeholder alignment at scale.
- Strong experience with Agile tools (Jira, Confluence) and enterprise reporting requirements.
Core Competencies
- Governance & Control Discipline: Ensures compliance with enterprise standards while enabling delivery.
- Leadership: Removes impediments, empowers teams, and drives accountability.
- Value Orientation: Focuses on measurable outcomes and value attainment aligned to scope and funding approvals.
- Risk Awareness: Proactively identifies and mitigates risks in a regulated environment.
- Stakeholder Influence: Builds alignment across business, technology, and control partners.
- Continuous Improvement: Drives Agile maturity within governance guardrails.
Additional Responsibilities
- Ensures alignment to KeyBank policies, procedures, and ethical standards at all times.
- Participates in governance forums, steering committees, and delivery health reviews.
- Adapts responsibilities as required to meet evolving regulatory, business, or organizational needs.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)
- OR equivalent experience (required)
Work Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience (required)
Licenses and Certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) - PMI (preferred)
- Certified Scrum Master (preferred)
Core Competencies
- All KeyBank employees are expected to demonstrate Key’s Values and abide by Key’s Code of Conduct.
Physical Demands
- General Office - Prolonged sitting, ability to communicate face to face in person or on the phone with teammates and clients, frequent use of PC/laptop, occasional lifting/pushing/pulling of backpacks, computer bags up to 10 lbs.
Work Location Category
- Hybrid (2+ days)
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $80,000.00 - $150,000.00 annually. Placement within the pay range may differ based upon various factors, including but not limited to skills, experience and geographic location. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for incentive compensation which may include production, commission, and/or discretionary incentives.
Key has implemented an approach to employee workspaces which prioritizes in-office presence, while providing flexible options in circumstances where roles can be performed effectively in a mobile environment.
Job Posting Expiration Date: 06/29/2026
KeyCorp is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to sustaining an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, pregnancy, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Qualified individuals with disabilities or disabled veterans who are unable or limited in their ability to apply on this site may request reasonable accommodations by emailing HR_Compliance@keybank.com.
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Location:
4910 Tiedeman Road, Brooklyn Ohio
Job Summary
The Agile Project Manager leads mid to large, high-priority initiatives that impact multiple Lines of Business (LOBs) and/or functional areas and require strong integration across technology, operations, and business teams.
This role enables delivery using Agile methodologies while ensuring adherence to KeyBank governance standards, including project & portfolio management tools, risk management, and regulatory oversight. The Agile Project Manager partners with Product Owners, business leaders, and control partners (Risk, Compliance, Audit) to deliver iterative value aligned with strategic objectives while maintaining transparency, auditability, and control effectiveness.
The role acts as a trusted advisor, balancing Agile delivery speed with disciplined governance, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
Agile Delivery & Governance Alignment
- Drive Agile delivery across initiatives while ensuring compliance with KeyBank project governance frameworks.
- Partner with Product Owners and business leaders to define product vision, roadmap, and backlog aligned to business outcomes, regulatory commitments, and risk priorities while focusing on cross-team coordination, governance alignment, and enterprise delivery outcomes.
- Ensure Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe where applicable) are implemented in a manner consistent with governance, documentation, and audit expectations.
- Maintain alignment between Agile delivery artifacts (epics, features, user stories) and required governance deliverables (business cases, approvals, stage gates as applicable).
Planning, Execution & Value Attainment
- Enable iterative planning (sprint/release planning) while ensuring alignment to approved scope, funding, and defined value attainment objectives.
- Support value attainment tracking, ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes aligned to approved investment objectives.
- Manage cross-team, cross-LOB dependencies to ensure coordinated execution within enterprise delivery timelines.
- Ensure impacts to client experience, operational processes, and regulatory obligations are incorporated into delivery plans.
- Accountable for delivery performance metrics including predictability, cycle time, and achievement of value attainment targets.
Stakeholder, Risk & Control Partner Engagement
- Serve as primary liaison across business stakeholders, technology teams, and control partners (Risk, Compliance, Legal).
- Provide transparent, structured reporting aligned to KeyBank standards, including status, risks, issues, dependencies, and financials.
- Establish and maintain strong trusted advisor relationships across all stakeholder groups, including executive leadership.
- Ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement for regulatory, high-risk, or high-impact initiatives.
- Use dashboards to enable real-time transparency for stakeholders and governance forums.
Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
- Identify, assess, document, and manage risks, issues, and dependencies in alignment with enterprise risk frameworks.
- Ensure risks and issues are escalated appropriately and documented in required systems of record.
- Perform impact analysis and ensure mitigation strategies align with regulatory and operational risk expectations.
- Proactively remove team-level impediments while ensuring enterprise-level risks are governed appropriately.
Change Management & Regulatory Readiness
- Support change management activities, including stakeholder communication, training, and adoption planning.
- Ensure all required documentation, approvals, and controls are in place to support audit and regulatory reviews.
- Partner with control functions to ensure initiatives meet compliance, legal, and risk requirements.
Financial & Resource Management
- Manage initiative financials in alignment with KeyBank standards, including forecasting, budgeting, and funding approvals.
- Monitor resource capacity, utilization, and vendor engagement, ensuring alignment to delivery priorities and budget constraints.
- Ensure cross-team dependencies are actively identified, tracked, and managed, with clear ownership and escalation to maintain alignment across LOBs and prevent impacts to delivery timelines or value attainment.
Continuous Improvement & Agile Enablement
- Champion Agile maturity across teams while aligning to enterprise governance expectations.
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, metrics, and feedback loops.
- Promote standardized use of enterprise tools (e.g., Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, etc.) aligned with reporting and governance needs.
- Support the broader Technology Delivery organization by driving Agile enablement, promoting best practices, and conducting targeted reviews to improve delivery consistency, efficiency, and outcomes.
Required Knowledge & Experience
- Extensive experience delivering initiatives in Agile or hybrid environments preferably within a regulated financial institution.
- Strong understanding of governance frameworks, including project lifecycle controls, risk management, and regulatory expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to balance Agile delivery with structured governance, documentation, and audit readiness.
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and stakeholder alignment at scale.
- Strong experience with Agile tools (Jira, Confluence) and enterprise reporting requirements.
Core Competencies
- Governance & Control Discipline: Ensures compliance with enterprise standards while enabling delivery.
- Leadership: Removes impediments, empowers teams, and drives accountability.
- Value Orientation: Focuses on measurable outcomes and value attainment aligned to scope and funding approvals.
- Risk Awareness: Proactively identifies and mitigates risks in a regulated environment.
- Stakeholder Influence: Builds alignment across business, technology, and control partners.
- Continuous Improvement: Drives Agile maturity within governance guardrails.
Additional Responsibilities
- Ensures alignment to KeyBank policies, procedures, and ethical standards at all times.
- Participates in governance forums, steering committees, and delivery health reviews.
- Adapts responsibilities as required to meet evolving regulatory, business, or organizational needs.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)
- OR equivalent experience (required)
Work Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience (required)
Licenses and Certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) - PMI (preferred)
- Certified Scrum Master (preferred)
Core Competencies
- All KeyBank employees are expected to demonstrate Key’s Values and abide by Key’s Code of Conduct.
Physical Demands
- General Office - Prolonged sitting, ability to communicate face to face in person or on the phone with teammates and clients, frequent use of PC/laptop, occasional lifting/pushing/pulling of backpacks, computer bags up to 10 lbs.
Work Location Category
- Hybrid (2+ days)
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $80,000.00 - $150,000.00 annually. Placement within the pay range may differ based upon various factors, including but not limited to skills, experience and geographic location. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for incentive compensation which may include production, commission, and/or discretionary incentives.
Key has implemented an approach to employee workspaces which prioritizes in-office presence, while providing flexible options in circumstances where roles can be performed effectively in a mobile environment.
Job Posting Expiration Date: 06/29/2026
KeyCorp is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to sustaining an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, pregnancy, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Qualified individuals with disabilities or disabled veterans who are unable or limited in their ability to apply on this site may request reasonable accommodations by emailing HR_Compliance@keybank.com.
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Who's Hiring
- Broadcom3
- Avetta2
- Travelers2
- Artech1
- Capgemini1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software5
- Insurance3
- Banking & Financial Services2
- Electronics & Hardware2
- Consulting & Professional Services1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in agile project manager jobs.
- Two or more years of hands-on experience managing Agile or Scrum teams
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification
- Proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps
- Experience facilitating sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement
- Strong stakeholder communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Familiarity with SAFe, Kanban, or other scaled Agile frameworks in enterprise environments
Tips for Your Agile Project Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to each framework
Hiring managers scan for the specific Agile framework named in the posting. If the role calls out SAFe, your resume should show Release Train experience. If it says Scrum Master background preferred, lead with sprint cadence and retrospective outcomes, not generic project delivery language.
Quantify throughput, not just delivery
Agile project manager resumes stand out when they show velocity improvements, cycle time reductions, or the number of concurrent squads you coordinated. Statements like 'reduced average sprint carryover by restructuring backlog refinement sessions' are far more compelling than 'delivered projects on time.'
Earn the certifications interviewers expect
PMI-ACP, CSM, and SAFe SPC are the certifications that appear most often in job descriptions. If you hold a PMP but lack an Agile-specific credential, many employers will note the gap. Prioritize the certification that matches the framework used most in your target industry.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists agile project manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by methodology, not just title
Job titles in this field vary widely. Searching only 'agile project manager' misses postings titled Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, or Agile Coach that match your experience. Expand your search terms to capture the full range of roles you're actually qualified for.
Prepare a ceremony walkthrough for interviews
Interviewers often ask you to walk through how you run a sprint retrospective or a PI planning event. Practicing a concise, concrete answer that shows how you adapted a ceremony to a struggling team will differentiate you from candidates who only describe the textbook process.
Agile Project Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most agile project managers?
The companies hiring the most agile project managers right now include Broadcom, Avetta, and Travelers, with the largest share of openings in Georgia, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Demand is concentrated in technology, financial services, and healthcare organizations running large-scale product delivery programs.
How many agile project manager jobs are remote?
About 40% of agile project manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 2026, making it one of the more flexible roles in project management. Sub-areas with the highest remote share include software delivery, digital transformation, and enterprise platform teams, where distributed squads are already the norm.
How do you become an agile project manager?
Start by learning one core framework, typically Scrum or SAFe, and earning the corresponding entry-level certification such as CSM or SAFe Agilist. Build hands-on experience by joining a team as a junior Scrum Master or delivery coordinator, then document measurable outcomes from ceremonies and sprint cycles you owned before applying for full agile project manager roles.
Can you get hired as an agile project manager with little experience?
Yes, especially if you can show you have led any team-level Agile practice, even informally. Employers hiring at the associate level often value a current CSM or PMI-ACP certification, demonstrated knowledge of sprint mechanics, and experience coordinating cross-functional work over years of formal title history. Targeting companies that are scaling Agile adoption tends to surface more entry-level openings.
What does the agile project manager interview process look like?
Most employers run a recruiter screen followed by a hiring manager interview focused on how you facilitate ceremonies and handle blockers. A second round typically includes a panel with engineering, product, or business stakeholders who probe your communication and prioritization approach. Some organizations add a practical scenario or case exercise where you walk through how you would run a sprint or respond to scope changes mid-cycle.
Where can I find and apply to agile project manager jobs?
You can find and apply to agile project manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your framework experience and seniority level, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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