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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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Agile Project Manager
Document your Agile credentials before applying
Certifications like PMP, CSM, or SAFe strengthen your PERM sponsorship case by demonstrating the specialized qualifications DOL expects for Agile Project Manager roles. Gather certificates, transcripts, and letters of recommendation before starting applications.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search DOL's OFLC disclosure data for companies that have filed PERM applications under Agile or project management job titles. Employers who have sponsored these roles before understand the process and are far more likely to commit to the timeline.
Clarify green card intent early in interviews
Raise sponsorship during the offer stage, not after signing. Ask specifically whether the company files PERM for project management roles, since some employers sponsor engineers but route PMs through contract arrangements that don't lead to permanent residency.
Use Migrate Mate to filter by sponsoring employers
Search Migrate Mate for Agile Project Manager roles filtered by green card sponsorship history. This saves weeks of manual research and surfaces companies already familiar with EB-2 and EB-3 PERM filings for management-track positions.
Understand how your job duties affect EB-2 versus EB-3 classification
If your role requires directing enterprise-level Agile transformation or managing complex multi-team programs, your employer may qualify for EB-2. Roles with more standard delivery responsibilities typically fall under EB-3, which affects both PERM framing and priority date timelines.
Prepare for prevailing wage scrutiny on hybrid PM titles
Titles combining Agile with product or engineering functions often draw DOL prevailing wage reviews. Your employer should benchmark your role against the OFLC Wage Search and the O*NET occupation profile before submitting PERM to avoid underpayment findings that delay certification.
Green Card Agile Project Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Agile Project Manager roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Agile Project Manager positions qualify under EB-3 as skilled workers, requiring at least a bachelor's degree and documented experience. Roles involving enterprise-level Agile transformation, portfolio leadership, or advanced methodology expertise may support an EB-2 filing if the position genuinely requires an advanced degree or equivalent. Your employer determines the classification based on the actual job duties and minimum requirements they document in the PERM application.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B visa is temporary, capped at 85,000 annually, and subject to a lottery, while EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no annual cap at the petition level for most countries. The PERM process takes longer upfront, often 12 to 24 months before the I-140 petition, but the outcome is lawful permanent residency rather than a renewable temporary status that depends on your employer indefinitely.
What does the PERM labor certification process require for Agile Project Manager jobs?
Your employer must conduct a DOL-supervised recruitment process to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available for the specific Agile Project Manager role. They post the job, document responses, and certify the prevailing wage through OFLC. The job requirements in the PERM filing must match what the employer genuinely needs, so titles blending Agile PM with product or engineering functions require careful definition to avoid audit delays.
Where can I find Agile Project Manager jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search Agile Project Manager roles specifically filtered by employers with EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship history. Filtering by sponsorship type upfront avoids wasting time on companies that sponsor H-1B but have never filed PERM for project management roles, which is a common mismatch in this job category.
Can I switch employers during the green card process for an Agile PM role?
Changing employers resets the PERM process unless your I-140 has been approved and is at least 180 days old, at which point AC21 portability may allow you to move to a similar role without losing your priority date. For Agile Project Manager positions, the new role must be in the same or similar occupational classification, so a move from delivery PM to product management could raise a portability question worth reviewing with an immigration attorney.