Agile Coach

Smartrecruiters

Company Description
SmartRecruiters is a values-driven, global-minded, and well-funded tech employer on a mission to connect people to jobs at scale. As a global leader in enterprise recruitment software, SmartRecruiters offers a cloud-based global Hiring Success platform that allows teams to attract, select, and hire the best talent. 4,000 companies worldwide rely on SmartRecruiters to achieve hiring success—including brands like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa—using recruitment marketing, CRM, AI, ATS, and a marketplace of 600+ connected vendors all within one scalable platform.

SmartRecruiters was recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Employers in 2020. We are proud to offer a collaborative, diverse, and remote-friendly work environment, as well as competitive salaries and generous equity. We believe in promotion from within, so high performance can lead to upward mobility. Needless to say, we make sure you’re taken care of. Our inclusive office environment welcomes and respects all.

Job Description
As an Agile Coach, you will help our organisation establish an agile mindset, valuable practices and improve collaboration.

You will coach, mentor and guide your colleagues and help them find great solutions for their specific challenges. You will analyze the organization's existing patterns and drive change to help streamline processes and create outcomes. Ultimately, you will play a key role in the long-term strategy across the entire organization, helping our teams to deliver better products in a faster, more efficient manner.

What you’ll deliver: 

• Work with R&D teams to understand current patterns and interactions, and design a strategy for increasing agile fluency

• Support and guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques and practices, fine-tuning approaches as needed to meet strategic and operational goals 

• Lead and develop new agile workshops for teams as well as key stakeholders

• Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, goal setting, focus and accountability

• Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry practices

• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching

• Coach teams and management around agile practices and adoption to enable rapid scaling of the organization

• Effectively communicate agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across the organization

• Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams

• Support and facilitate team meetings and collaboration in order to empower teams and individuals

Qualifications
• Deep understanding of agile principles and mindset

• Experience as an Agile Coach in multiple different teams, cultures and contexts

• Comfortable working with teams, individual contributors, leaders and bigger organizational units as needed

• Large and varied toolbox of exercises, frameworks and approaches for meeting teams where they are

• Ability to identify underlying patterns/dynamics and turning this knowledge into a concrete plan for evolving mindset and interactions

• Knowledge from complementary trainings and courses is a nice to have

Additional Information
SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.