Agile Delivery Lead

Ex; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ex seeks an experienced Agile Delivery Lead to anchor a COE spanning Marketing and Inside Sales. You will design the agile operating model, coach multiple pods, and drive delivery outcomes across functions in a fast-paced context.

You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies, establish metrics, and partner with regional leadership to align backlogs and business results. Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years in project management, agile delivery, and scrum with at least 5 years in dedicated agile leadership roles.
• Experience applying Agile/Scrum in marketing, demand generation, or sales/revenue ops contexts.
• Proven track record managing multiple pods and implementing standardized agile practices.
• Strong command of Scrum, Kanban, and scaling approaches (SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale).
• Hands-on experience with agile work-management tools (Jira, Asana, Monday.com, Wrike, Azure DevOps) with dashboards.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills for CXO-level stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and run the agile operating model for the Marketing & Inside Sales COE with sprint cadences and governance.
• Set up, coach, and manage multiple pods/squads ensuring clear goals and sprint discipline.
• Define and institutionalize agile practices, playbooks, and templates across pods and leadership.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies and build scrum capability within teams.
• Establish agile metrics and dashboards (velocity, cycle time, throughput, dashboards) and report progress to leadership.
• Manage stakeholders across geographies and time zones; run steering reviews and communicate risks.
• Identify and remove impediments and manage cross-pod dependencies.
• Drive continuous improvement and scale successful practices across COE.
• Lead agile transformation and change management initiatives for teams new to agile.

Skills

Agile Delivery

Agile Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Cross-functional Leadership

Scrum / Kanban

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Asana

Monday.com

Wrike

Azure DevOps

Job description

• Experience (In Years) 12-15

Job Description

About the Role

We are setting up an Agile Center of Excellence (COE) spanning our Marketing and Inside Sales functions, and are looking for a seasoned Agile Delivery Lead to anchor it. You will bring agile and scrum ways of working — proven in project and program delivery — into a marketing and demand-generation context: campaign activation pods and inside sales teams operating in sprints with clear backlogs, velocity, and outcomes.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will design the COE's agile operating model, stand up and coach multiple pods/squads, institutionalize best practices, and act as the bridge between marketing leadership, inside sales leadership, and global stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and run the agile operating model for the Marketing & Inside Sales COE — sprint cadences, ceremonies, backlog management, prioritization frameworks, and delivery governance.
• Set up, coach, and manage multiple pods/squads (campaign, content, digital, inside sales), ensuring each operates with clear goals, roles, and sprint discipline.
• Define and institutionalize agile and scrum best practices, playbooks, and templates across all pods; drive consistency while allowing pod-level flexibility.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) directly or through pod-level scrum masters; build scrum capability within the teams.
• Establish agile metrics and dashboards — velocity, throughput, cycle time, sprint predictability, and business outcomes (pipeline, MQLs/SQLs, campaign delivery) — and report to leadership.
• Manage stakeholders across geographies and time zones: marketing and sales leadership, business unit heads, and cross-functional partners; run steering reviews and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies clearly.
• Identify and remove impediments across pods; manage cross-pod dependencies, capacity, and resource allocation.
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, maturity assessments, and agile health checks; scale what works across the COE.
• Lead agile transformation and change management — train, coach, and mentor team members who are new to agile ways of working.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 10–15 years of overall experience in project management, agile delivery, and scrum — with at least 5 years in dedicated agile/scrum leadership roles (Agile Coach, Senior Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience applying agile/scrum in a marketing, demand generation, or sales/revenue operations context — or running an agile COE for business (non-IT) functions.
• Proven track record of managing multiple pods/squads simultaneously and implementing standardized agile best practices across them.
• Strong command of agile frameworks and methods: Scrum, Kanban, and scaling approaches (SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum@Scale).
• Hands-on experience with agile work-management tools such as Jira, Asana, Monday.com, Wrike, or Azure DevOps, including dashboarding and reporting.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills — able to engage audiences from pod members to CXO-level stakeholders.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders across multiple geographies and working effectively across time zones and cultures.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent is a plus.

Certifications (Preferred)

• CSM / A-CSM / CSP (Scrum Alliance) or PSM I/II (Scrum.org)
• SAFe Agilist (SA) / SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) or equivalent scaling certification
• PMP / PMI-ACP or PRINCE2 Agile
• ICP-ACC (ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching) is an advantage