Job Description

Agile Coach

Location: San Jose, CA Duration: 12 months

What You'll Do

• Create frameworks for continuous improvement, transparency, delivery velocity, and waste elimination, and educate the team on how to best implement the frameworks.
• Evangelize a build, measure, learn, iterate mindset; along with the tools to support this mindset.
• Develop a culture of continuous learning and self-reflection to allow for the product development organization to be capable of absorbing the changes emergent from a rapidly growing organization.
• Leverage tooling to help cross-functional teams create transparency and visibility into their work.
• Help identify and clear dependencies between teams.

What You'll Have

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 7 years of project or program management experience, with at least 4 years in a coaching capacity.
• Experience in evolving agile practices in a rapidly growing organization with a geographically distributed team.
• Strong soft skills with a demonstrable ability to wield soft influence.
• Highly effective communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with deeply technical resources, and proven ability to negotiate cross-functionally.
• Comfortable switching, as needed, between the roles of a servant leader, mentor, facilitator, teacher, partner, and hands-on expert.
• Expansive understanding of Jira structure and best practices to effectively support various types of agile implementations.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAFe 4.0 Scaled Agile certification and/or prior experience in rolling out of SAFe.
• Agile certifications in one or more practices (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, etc).

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