SAFE Agile Coach

Saransh Inc; Clinton (NJ); On-site; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

Saransh Inc in Clinton, NJ is seeking an experienced Enterprise Agile Coach to lead large-scale transformations. You will tailor scaled frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, or similar) to client culture and maturity, diagnose challenges, and drive sustainable change across multi-team programs.

The role emphasizes PI planning facilitation, program-wide alignment, and rapid early value delivery, with a focus on change enablement and coaching leaders to embed new ways of working long after the engagement ends.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing or modernizing scaled agile environments for complex, multi-team organizations.
• Deep expertise in Agile/Lean principles with ability to tailor practices to client maturity.
• Expertise in PI planning events, readiness assessment, and outcome reviews.
• Strong change management, training design, and leadership coaching capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, tailor, and modernize scaled agile frameworks across multi-team programs.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and observe work to diagnose root causes.
• Lead PI planning events from end to end and assess readiness.
• Develop iterative practices and pilot programs to validate changes.
• Identify quick-win improvements to deliver rapid business value.
• Coach leaders to sustain new operating models after engagement.

Skills

Scaled Agile

PI Planning

Change Management

Stakeholder Interviews

Job description

Position Title: SAFE Agile Coach
Location: Clinton, NJ (5 Days Onsite)
Duration: 6 Months Contract

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Agile Coach to lead large-scale agile transformations, modernizing operating models for complex, multi-team enterprise clients. In this role, you will diagnose organizational challenges, tailor Scaled Agile frameworks to fit client cultures and maturity levels, facilitate critical planning events, and drive sustainable change.

Key Responsibilities

• Framework Design & Modernization: Design, tailor, and modernize Scaled Agile frameworks across multi-team programs and enterprise divisions, aligning agile principles with the client's specific operating model, culture, and business strategy.
• Diagnostic & Root-Cause Analysis: Conduct stakeholder interviews and direct workplace observation to differentiate underlying systemic root causes from surface-level process symptoms in current planning and delivery pipelines.
• PI Planning Facilitation & Assessment: Lead Program Increment (PI) planning events from end to end. Evaluate readiness before the event, assess alignment and dependency management during execution, and review metrics and outcomes post-event.
• Iterative Process Engineering: Develop, test, and refine recommended practices using iterative showcases, feedback loops, and pilot programs to validate operational changes before full rollout.
• Immediate Value Delivery: Identify and execute quick-win operating model improvements to deliver rapid business value and build momentum early in the transformation lifecycle.
• Change Enablement & Sustainability: Implement robust change management strategies, coaching leaders and teams to ensure new ways of working are self-sustaining long after engagement wrap-up.

Required Qualifications

• Enterprise Experience: Proven track record designing or modernizing Scaled Agile (SAFe, LeSS, Spotify Model, or customized scaled framework) environments for complex organizations with multiple teams/divisions.
• Agile Customization: Deep expertise in core Agile/Lean principles, with a demonstrated ability to flexibly tailor practices to client maturity without dogmatically enforcing rigid frameworks.
• PI Event Leadership: Expertise in preparing, facilitating, and assessing multi-team PI Planning (or equivalent big-room planning) events.
• Change Management: Demonstrated capability in change enablement, training design, leadership coaching, and institutionalizing long-term behavioral and operational change