Job responsibilities
- Guide and support your teams in adopting and implementing agile methodologies to achieve operational goals
- Foster engagement and teamwork, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives
- Utilize analytical skills to review data and make inferences
- Manage your team’s delivery backlog and prioritize work effectively to meet business teams as well as assist your team in efficiently prioritizing their own backlogs
- Utilize your communication and presentation skills to manage and influence stakeholders
- Encourage and develop your team’s skills to ensure continuous improvement
- Use advanced communication, facilitation, and presentation skills to manage and influence stakeholders while communicating organizational impediments to leadership
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 6+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on coaching teams and individuals on agile methodologies and project management
- Experience managing and developing individual contributors
- Possess advanced knowledge of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices, enabling effective guidance and support
- Display advanced knowledge of agile delivery and multiple agile approaches, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), and scaling frameworks, monitoring agility metrics; with the ability to guide teams through complex projects, emphasizing iterative progress and adaptability
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a focus on team collaboration
- Ability to develop and implement product strategies aligned with business goals
- Must be able to collaborate and work effectively with heads of product / product owners
- Must be able to maintain regular communication within product space, be transparent about goals, challenges, and progress
- Excellent skills in collaborative planning – involving other product owners and coordinating efforts
- Be able to share insight and data to inform decision-making.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training on Agile coaching, such as recognized coaching certifications
- Previous experience managing individual contributors
- Recommended skills include but are not limited to: agile delivery, business acumen, change management, continuous improvement, coaching, internal stakeholder management, strategic thinking, self-study, verbal communication, adaptability, and decision making, product leadership