Agile Coach

FCS Software Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Agile Coach to lead the transformation of product management practices. In this dynamic role, you will drive the transition from project-centric to product-centric methodologies, coaching teams and executives alike on Agile principles. You'll facilitate workshops, assess team maturity, and provide hands-on training using collaboration tools. This position offers the chance to influence product strategy at a high level, ensuring that teams understand their value streams and measure success effectively. If you're passionate about Agile methodologies and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• 14+ years of IT experience with 3+ years coaching Digital Product Managers.
• Experience in Agile Product Delivery and full product life cycle management.

Responsibilities

• Drive digital product portfolios' transformation to a product-centric approach.
• Facilitate agile-related community practices and training sessions.

Skills

Agile Coaching

Digital Product Management

Change Management

Value Stream Mapping

Problem Solving

Leadership Coaching

Training Skills

Interpersonal Communication

Education

B.S./M.S. or B.E/B.Tech

Tools

Jira Advanced Roadmaps

Azure DevOps

Miro

Mural

Aha/ProductBoard/Planview/Craft.io

Job description

Job Title: Agile Coach

Experience: 14+ years

Location: Remote 100%

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

• Drive the migration of digital product portfolios from project/service centric to product centric.
• Scale agile beyond the individual team or departmental level and use the right scaling model to drive adoption.
• Partner with leaders for the identification of value streams/product or platform teams and for the designing of their product team structures using org. design principles and team topologies.
• Drive OKR (Objectives and Key Results) workshops with the Business stakeholders, Product Management Team, IT Leadership, and the Agile Delivery Teams.
• Directly influence leadership (up to executive level) and their teams throughout DTS (infrastructure, applications teams, Strategy/Innovation/Architecture, Cyber Security and Assurance) and business to drive adoption of Product and Agile thinking.
• Directly work with executives (VP and Director levels) in Business and IT to drive Change Management for the Product Transformation.
• Hands-on coaching to key product roles Product Manager, Product Owner and Scrum Master and Scrum teams.
• Facilitate and coach Product and Team level events such as PI Planning/Quarterly Planning, Steerco, Quarterly Business/Product Review, Scrum of Scrums, etc.
• Make recommendations and manage the adoption of tools and technology to drive the transformation (Product Management Tools, Agile Delivery Tools, Maturity Assessment tools, Collaboration tools, etc.).
• Assess maturity of teams and help them understand their baseline maturity and create an improvement plan.
• Monitor effectiveness of the transformation journey and drive continuous improvement to K-C's product management, Agile framework, and practices.
• Provide guidance on how the Product teams will measure outcomes and value realization (outcome metrics, NOT just agile or delivery metrics).
• Own the communications and stakeholder management strategy for product transformation activities - provide regular updates to leadership on the progress of the transformation and define avenues to provide ongoing testimonials / showcase success stories generated by digital agile teams.
• Partner with leadership teams to build talent development journeys for product team leadership roles Product Manager, Product Owner, Engineering, Scrum Masters.
• Partner with Agile CoE Leader to define annual objectives for executive leadership team to support agile transformation roadmap.
• Coordinate and facilitate agile related community of practice activities to enable thought leadership, collaboration and to drive shared learnings across the enterprise.
• Develop agile training materials and process guidelines.
• Deliver hands-on training in classroom and in virtual setting using collaboration tools (like Mural or Miro).

Required Qualifications and Experiences:

• B.S./M.S. or B.E/B.Tech. (Advanced degree preferred) in a relevant field.
• 14+ years of Professional IT experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Coaching Digital Product Managers (not just Product Owners) in Business and IT.
• 5+ years of experience coaching Product Owners, Scrum Masters and entire Delivery Teams on Agile Product Delivery.
• Strategic experience (Enterprise-level) of owning and driving an entire Digital Portfolio (Digital Sales/Marketing/Supply Chain/Data & Analytics) from Project/Service oriented to Product Transformation.
• Experience of full product life cycle management of a digital product from idea to launch and maintenance.
• Experience with Value Stream Mapping to come up with the Product Value Streams for the respective Product Lines.
• Expertise in Organisation Design Principles and Team Topologies.
• Leadership coaching (VP and Director levels) on Product and Agile Mindset.
• Experience with Agile Product Delivery.
• Experience with any Product Management Tool (Aha/ProductBoard/Planview/Craft.io/Jira Advanced Roadmaps).
• Experience with Agile Life Cycle Management Tool (AzureDevops) is critical.
• Excellent training skills in classroom and in virtual setting using collaboration tools like Miro or Mural (one of the 2 is a MUST HAVE).
• Story Telling - Ability to communicate the commercial story (ROI) of the transformation for each product team you coach.
• Self-driven and ability to operate in the unknown with limited guidance.
• Experience driving execution via benchmarking and performance measurement.
• Expert problem-solving ability and experience leading groups through problem solving methodology.
• Experience coaching agile teams that are dispersed globally.
• Strong Virtual meeting facilitation, business acumen, interpersonal communication & collaboration, training, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Product Management certification.
• Agile Certification (any scaling framework).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Manufacturing/Industrial Automation/CPG/Retail/Oil and Gas (or any org. that uses SAP or S4 HANA as their core digital system).
• Experience with DevOps and Platform development.
• Nice to have Certifications: ICP-ACC / ICP-ENT / ICP-CAT.

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