Job Description
hatch I.T. is partnering with Packaged Agile to find an Agile Coach. See details below:
About the Role:
This role is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about helping organizations transform their ways of working to an agile state and who wants to help other teams implement an agile mindset and culture. You will learn about your client’s products, processes, and tools, and help identify areas for improvement that enable them to meet their goals. Leveraging your expertise, you will help guide your clients toward good agile and SAFe practices and recommend processes and tools to support their journey.
We are proud to be a United States Small Business Administration (SBA) HUBZone-certified company. We prefer candidates who reside in an SBA HUBZone or be willing to relocate.
About the Company:
Packaged Agile is a boutique agile and digital services-focused coaching and consulting company. They help their clients deliver measurable value to their customers and aspire to bring “good agile” to clients across the public and private sectors. They hire passionate people who believe in agility, understand how to meet people where they are, and treat them with respect while helping them succeed. And they want to hire people that see their continuous growth and improvement as a way of life. They are proud to be a United States Small Business Administration (SBA) HUBZone-certified company. We prefer candidates who reside in an SBA HUBZone or are willing to relocate.
Responsibilities:
As a Product Coach at Packaged Agile, you’ll be responsible for helping your client understand how to build and lead a product culture that focuses on creating valuable and viable solutions.
- Solve complex problems using sound logic and compelling narratives
- Advise on agile, SAFe, and Scrum @ Scale strategies to implement across the organization
- Build trust and collaborative relationships among all stakeholders across the ART
- Mentor Scrum Masters, leadership, PO/PMs, and other ART team members on agile and SAFe best practices
- Facilitate the identification of objectives and key results (OKRs) that are product-team specific, but roll up to organizational goals
- Coach clients on agile principles and processes and on building compelling Product Vision and Product Strategy descriptions and how to orient Product Roadmaps around the delivery of customer value as opposed to output
- Partner with teams and stakeholders to help improve their agile practices
- Identify practical ways to keep team members engaged and motivated in a remote environment
- Escalate impediments and risks, and clearly explain their impact in plain language
Requirements:
To be considered for this role, you must meet the following requirements.
- US Citizenship or Green Card status with the ability to pass a Public Trust clearance process with a US Government client
- At least three years of experience as an Agile Coach
- Experience leading agile transformations
- Effective coach - excellent communicator , exudes patience and loves to teach others
- Understanding of software development methodologies like Scrum or Kanban
- Excellent facilitation skills, experience leading training, backlog development and refinement sessions, and problem-solving workshops
- Experience with all facets of the product management life cycle
- Certifications: SPC 5.0
- Strongly preferred: RTE and Scrum Master certifications
- Strongly preferred: lives in a US SBA HUBZone ( )
- Strongly preferred: Knowledge of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Automation
- Passionate about product management and continuous learning
- Ability to maintain composure in the face of challenges
- Propose logical approaches to address issues
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
$100,000 - $160,000 a year
Benefits:
Packaged Agile is a small, growing business using a Lean Start-Up mentality. They want to be a place where their employees feel challenged and rewarded. So, in addition to your competitive salary, and medical/dental/vision plan, they offer these additional benefits:
Flexibility: They are a remote-first company and will advocate with their clients to remain so whenever possible. If you want to be on-site full-time or part-time, they will work with you to make this happen.
Growth: Career growth looks different for everyone. You choose your path and how you want to contribute based on your goals, and they support you.
Bonus: They offer competitive annual performance-based bonuses.
Professional Development: They want their people to be active in the agile and product communities. They reimburse all reasonable expenses not covered by the hosts if you are selected to speak at an event or conference.
Culture: They care about your views. You will help them shape their culture and how they support their employees, clients, and communities.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
