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Job Description - Agile Coach
The Agility Lead will collaborate with product management and software development teams to assist in achieving productivity and maturity of the product operating model. You will need a lean mindset, agile coaching and mentoring expertise to facilitate product refinement, development and delivery best practices. You will be responsible for establishing and nurturing a culture of diverse of thought, continuous improvement through innovation, and quality delivery. The right hire will:- Create and facilitate lean product and engineering training programs to help new product teams quickly achieve productivity
- Ensure product teams maintain a razor-sharp focus on the overall customer experience
- Leverage and coach modern XP, Lean, and Agile practices to build high performing product teams
- Mentor and guide Product Owners / Product Management teams on Discovery and backlog management best practices
- Ensure teams are focused on successful delivery and continuous improvement of their engineering practices
- Mentor leadership on benefits of adopting the product operating model and partner on improvement opportunities
- Have a passion for developing people and helping them reach their full potential
- Have strong quantitative and analytical problem solving skills, with the ability to establish business strategy, and engineer processes accordingly
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach or other Agile role (e.g. Product Owner, Tech Lead) with at least one year of large scale, multiple team effort
- Be fluent with software development methodologies and practices (XP, Scrum, Lean)
- Expertise in continuous improvement of structure, processes, and tooling to enable the teams to deliver more value
- Expertise in product backlog management and refinement techniques
- Understanding of software design and automation (DevOps) patterns
- Knowledge of Test Automation, Pair Programming, and Test-Driven Development
- Consulting and facilitation skills in leading product teams
- Ability to influence and mentor senior leadership on agile mindset and practices
- Possess a "can do" attitude, are driven by research, problem solving, and thrive on challenges
- Innovative team player with strong analytical problem solving, crisis management, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to influence a cross functional team to obtain desired results
- Ability to work across geographies towards targeted results
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