DescriptionAs an experienced Agility Lead, your mission is to help the team of innovators, product owners, product managers, scrum masters and technologists unlock their agile potential to deliver next-level solutions that improve the way our business is run. Your expertise in various domains including lean, culture, collaboration, facilitation, professional coaching, process improvement and a focus on delivering value will be counted on to set direction and solve complex and mission-critical problems, internally and externally. Your deep understanding of the agile domain and passion for continuous improvement and coaching will inspire your team of scrum masters to follow suit.
As an Agility Lead, you'll act as a true leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. Our Agility Leads are open, approachable, collaborative, and enjoy working with passionate people. They're proactive in solving problems to help their team(s) succeed. The Agility Lead influences with Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice. The Agility Lead is responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.
Job responsibilities
- Works with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information; coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning
- Facilitates groups of 30 or more and coach multiple teams across the product
- Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
- Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events
- Communicates organizational impediments to leadership; clear impediments for the team
- Embraces the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instill the same in the team(s) you coach
- Brings ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience in Agile development, with a track record of success in leading and managing agile teams
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Expertise with Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in Product Development and delivery organization
- Ability to coach and mentor
- Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels
- Understanding of Scaling frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, and various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban, XP, certifications are a plus
- Ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to serve the team(s)
- Possess an executive presence and ability to coach multiple teams across the product
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Knowledge of industry-wide technology strategies
- Ability to leverage capabilities across the firm to solve local problems
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and Cloud Technology experience and certifications
- Experience submitting entries in Jira or Jira Align