Lead Agilist

Agility Partners; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Agility Partners is seeking a Lead Agilist to guide Agile squads, mentor stakeholders, and promote Scrum best practices to deliver business value. The role emphasizes servant leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.

You will coach Product Owners and teams, remove impediments, and foster self-organization with strong communication and collaboration across organizational partners.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time business experience with 3+ years of Scrum experience in an Agile environment.
• Strong understanding of the Scrum framework and Agile principles, including experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and continuous improvement practices.
• Proven experience presenting, teaching, mentoring, coaching, and facilitating at multiple levels of an organization, particularly within team environments.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts and guide teams toward effective solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, communicate, and remove team and organizational impediments while navigating interpersonal and organizational conflicts.
• Strong servant-leadership, coaching, collaboration, and team-building skills, with a focus on fostering self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a directly related field, or equivalent work experience; familiarity with Kanban, Scrumban, XP, CI/CD, DevOps, and other Agile practices is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Guide Agile Squads in applying Scrum principles and facilitate key Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
• Coach Product Owners and Development Teams on backlog management, self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, risk identification, dependency management, and conflict resolution.
• Identify and remove organizational and team-level impediments while facilitating communication and collaboration across Agile Squads, stakeholders, and organizational partners.
• Build high-performing, trusting teams by leveraging feedback, metrics, inspect-and-adapt practices, servant leadership, and other Agile frameworks and techniques.

Skills

Scrum experience

Coaching

Facilitation

Communication

Servant leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kanban

Scrumban

XP

CI/CD

DevOps

Job description

Do you thrive on building empowered, self-organizing teams? We're seeking a Lead Agilist to guide Agile squads, mentor stakeholders at all levels, and help deliver business value by promoting Scrum best practices, team effectiveness, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Guide Agile Squads in applying Scrum principles and facilitate key Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
• Coach Product Owners and Development Teams on backlog management, self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, risk identification, dependency management, and conflict resolution.
• Identify and remove organizational and team-level impediments while facilitating communication and collaboration across Agile Squads, stakeholders, and organizational partners.
• Build high-performing, trusting teams by leveraging feedback, metrics, inspect-and-adapt practices, servant leadership, and other Agile frameworks and techniques.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of full-time business experience with 3+ years of Scrum experience in an Agile environment.
• Strong understanding of the Scrum framework and Agile principles, including experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and continuous improvement practices.
• Proven experience presenting, teaching, mentoring, coaching, and facilitating at multiple levels of an organization, particularly within team environments.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts and guide teams toward effective solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, communicate, and remove team and organizational impediments while navigating interpersonal and organizational conflicts.
• Strong servant-leadership, coaching, collaboration, and team-building skills, with a focus on fostering self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a directly related field, or equivalent work experience; familiarity with Kanban, Scrumban, XP, CI/CD, DevOps, and other Agile practices is a plus.

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