About the position
Join a team of professionals who are passionate about their work, love cross-training and the adoption of cutting-edge technologies. We care about our employees and foster an environment in which they can thrive by providing them the tools and training necessary to get the job done. Our team is a place where we encourage self-starters, and everyone's ideas are heard and valued! What you'll be doing is working with our agile team to help deliver key deliverables and guide our clients through their agile transformation. Building materials and resources for client use on future projects. Assessing teams, scrum masters and the organization and helping to provide key metrics to track trending and improvement. Every client has different needs that often require the adoption of new technologies, methods and frameworks. Sometimes you'll be working alone but a lot of the time you'll be working alongside and pairing side-by-side with another team member.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates on the creation and evolution of the Agile transformation roadmap and owns driving activities across the organization
- Supports development and monitoring of Agile adoption/maturity metrics to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts and to gauge the maturity progress of new and existing teams
- Helps define and ensure consistent agile standards and best practices in alignment with the Agile Leads vision
- Advances best practices for scaling and optimizing the agile practice
- Develops and monitors metrics to track progress of Agile adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall Agile transformation efforts
- Develops training materials and deliver across the organization
- Provides individual coaching to delivery team members, managers, executives, and other employees throughout the company
- Participates, organizes, facilitates communities of practice to help foster lean and agile thinking
- Mentors Agile delivery teams, their coaches, stakeholders and leaders to help them adopt the mindset and practices needed to transform the organization
- May at times fill various roles based on organizational needs and your own abilities, including: Scrum Master and Team Coach
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- 3+ years experience implementing Scrum or Kanban from the ground up for multiple teams
- 3+ years Agile Coaching (ability to coach multiple teams in the principles of Agile and the practices of Scrum / Kanban)
- A track record of leadership in Agile transformation in large organizations
- Proven knowledge of the application of Agile at scale and demonstrated ability to coach and lead the cultural and organizational change to make it work
- A passion and commitment to your own personal development demonstrated by participation in Agile Industry activities and groups as speaker, volunteer or organizer
- Self-starter with Consultant Mentality - Need to be able to coach and guide the client and teams
- Ability to manage senior level relationships
- Strong communication/presentation skills to effectively interact with clients, internal teams and leadership
- Knowledge and experience in two or more Agile or Lean frameworks Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Extreme Programming
- Certified ScrumMaster required (PSM acceptable)
- Coaching Certification a plus (ICP-ACC, Co-Active, ORSC, CEC, CTC)
Benefits
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 10 Paid Holidays
- Medical, Vision, and Dental benefits
- Profit Sharing
- 401(k)
- paid training certifications
- very competitive compensation plans
