Position: Agile Coach
Location: REMOTE
Duration: 6 Months
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 Organization 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/Product Board/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.
• 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