Agile Coach with restaurant

Agile Coach with restaurant or retail

Location: 100% Remote

1-year contract

Essentially, they need an Agile Coach with restaurant or retail experience to help them implement Agile.  As such, someone who has helped implement or shape Agile for an organization in the past would be an ideal fit

Must Haves

o             Top Three Technical Skills: Agile coaching, training, and content curation for "ways of working."

o             Other Technical Skills: Experience with quarterly planning, story writing, pointing systems, burndown/burnup charts.

o             Restaurant or retail experience

Plusses

Key Soft Skills/Attributes: Enthusiastic, energetic (but not over the top), good listener, able to meet teams where they are, able to make ideas feel collaborative rather than dictated, and experience working with executive teams.

Day to Day

o             Daily Responsibilities: Getting the lay of the land, observing conversations, helping junior staff, coaching and training PMO leaders, driving the coaching and training aspect, creating/curating content (not straight out of a book), assessing current practices and suggesting improvements.

o             Expected Achievements: Aligning the organization on "how we work," improving story writing, refining pointing/burndown systems, establishing a parallel path for future work planning, and getting everyone on the same page speaking the same language.

•             Additional Information

o             Target Audience for Coaching: 75-90 people across tech (150 contractors and FTEs total, plus business partners), including cross-cutting product teams, engineering, QA, and shared services teams (e.g., cybersecurity).

o             Industry Background: Restaurant or retail experience is preferred due to the fast pace; banking or government experience is less desirable.

o             Team Growth: Tech team has doubled in two years (from 50-55 people plus 40 contractors to 100 people plus 50-60 contractors).