W2 Position Executive Agile Coach (Executive level Product Transformation Coach)

Executive Agile Coach (Executive Level Product Transformation Coach)

Location: Charlotte, NC, Minneapolis, MN, or NYC, NY

Must be willing to work on site 3 days a week in one of the above locations

Duration: 12-24 months, likely to be long term and potential to convert FTE down the road

Interview process: 2 rounds via video

Target start date: ASAP

Must Haves:

• Executive level coaching from project to product-centric environments will be partnering with C-suite executives
• Experience working on product transformations
• Must be willing to work on site 3 days a week in one of the above locations

In this role, you will:

• Establish, lead, and guide organizations on the transition to healthy product discipline which embrace and exhibit the Agile mindset, practices and standards to deliver value to our customers
• Leverage and combine different industry standard scaling concepts to specific business problems that best supports scaled Agile values and principles
• Offer credible guidance to team process, structure work, create customer journeys, and start growth of scaling activities
• Assist leaders in considering complexity and long-term implications of transformation to self-governing teams
• Coach leaders on the delivery implications and the structure required to support the software
• Foster maturation of Agile behaviors and delivery concepts
• Provide strategic leadership on approaches to overcome impediments to accelerated delivery
• Collaborate with all levels of managers and steering committees across the enterprise
• Serve as an experienced advisor to the team with a focus on scaling Agile within the organization or line of business

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in Agile Coaching, Scrum Master, Product Owner, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years experience with Jira Align and Jira
• Excellent communications, interpersonal, and presentations skills
• Excellence in facilitating technical and non-technical groups

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in feature delivery in a technology environment leveraging a modern technology stack including cloud native applications and a robust DevOps pipeline
• Prior experience with project to product transformations
• Experience leading discussions with individuals at varying levels of the organization that result in a shared understanding and consensus on a path forward
• Ability to develop, deliver and mentor effective, well-articulated, written, and oral communications (e.g., emails, presentation materials) applying appropriate level of content/ detail dependent upon audience and intent
• Demonstrated reasonable level of technical and business understanding to optimize credibility with teams and managers
• Works with all levels in the organization to teach and coach the product management principles and practices
• Demonstrable experience with Full stack automation (build, test, integration), cloud migration, API gateways, 1-click configuration

Job Expectations:

• Create product transformation strategy is based on customer outcome
• Product design in response to customer feedback
• OKRs are based on customer value
• All product levels practice continuous discovery techniques
• Identify opportunities for efficiency and optimization to help drive the transition from projects to products
• Offer credible guidance on product procedures, work structure, creating customer journeys, and start growth of scaling activities
• Ability to facilitate discussions around value of product mindset and articulating the steps required to achieve agility within a product
• Assist leaders in considering complexity and long-term implications of product based operating models through a transformational lense
• Provide strategic leadership on approaches to overcome impediments to accelerated delivery
• Serve as an experienced advisor to the team with a focus on scaling Agile within the organization or line of business by leveraging different industry standard best practices, that support Agile values and principles, specific to business problems
• Make decisions utilizing Agile metrics and a strategic perspective to show value of practicality in enabling planning, continuous improvement, and thoughtful data inspired decisions
• Ability and willingness to coach at a team, scaled and product level
• Familiarity with customer journey and value stream mapping
• Prior experience with project to product transformations
• Demonstrated reasonable level of technical and business understanding to optimize credibility with teams and managers
• Experience leading discussions with individuals at varying levels of the organization that result in a shared understanding and consensus on a path forward
• Works with all levels in the organization to teach and coach the product management principles and practice