Job Description

Role: Senior Agile Coach

Duration: 6 months (possible extension)

Location: It will be mostly remote, with maybe some on-site meetings in Century City, CA

Key Responsibilities

Agile Training & Enablement

• Develop and implement Agile training models and learning paths for teams and leadership.
• Facilitate Agile training sessions for Program Managers, Scrum Masters, Kanban Coaches, and teams.
• Create and enhance training guides, playbooks, and best practice documentation.
• Establish a coaching framework that supports Agile role development and team autonomy.
• Drive stakeholder engagement by educating leadership on Agile principles and ways of working.

Hands-On Team Coaching & Agile Maturity Growth

• Provide individual coaching for teams, helping them adopt Agile best practices.
• Support and mentor Scrum Masters and Kanban Coaches in their roles.
• Partner with Product Owners to improve backlog management, prioritization, and stakeholder engagement.
• Conduct Agile health assessments and maturity evaluations, recommending improvements.

Facilitation of Agile Events & Organizational Agility

• Lead and facilitate Scrum of Scrums and Product Owner Syncs to drive alignment and collaboration.
• Support Quarterly Planning events and Agile Release Train (ART) ceremonies.
• Guide teams through Agile adoption challenges and remove systemic organizational impediments.
• Work with leadership to identify pain points and recommend solutions for optimizing delivery.

Agile Metrics, Jira & Confluence Expertise

• Utilize Jira and Confluence to support Agile processes, creating and managing content for Agile teams.
• Build custom dashboards, reports, and filters in Jira to track team and portfolio performance.
• Define Agile maturity metrics, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Leverage Jira insights to support forecasting, capacity planning, and Agile OKRs.

Agile Frameworks & Continuous Improvement

• Advocate for Lean-Agile principles, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile methodologies.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives helping teams establish feedback loops and innovation cycles.
• Align Agile practices with business and technology objectives to optimize value delivery.
• Partner with leadership to embed an Agile mindset into the organization's culture.
• Act as a change agent, guiding teams through Agile transformation roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, or a related field.
  • 15+ years of experience in Agile Coaching, Agile Transformation, or Enterprise Agile adoption.
  • Extensive hands-on experience coaching teams, leaders, and Agile roles (Scrum Masters, Kanban Coaches, Product Owners, and Program Managers).
  • Strong expertise in Jira and Confluence, including dashboard and filter creation.
  • SAFe SPC, SAFe Program Consultant, ICP-ACC, or similar Agile certification preferred.
• Skills & Competencies:
  • Deep knowledge of SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), and Agile at scale.
  • Strong training development and facilitation skills, with the ability to tailor learning experiences to different audiences.
  • Proven ability to lead Agile ceremonies such as Scrum of Scrums and Product Owner Syncs.
  • Experience in coaching teams and leadership at various levels of Agile maturity.
  • Exceptional communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.

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