Director - Coach Agile

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Prudential Financial

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Financial Services • Investment Management • Life Insurance • Retirement Benefits • Group Benefits

10,000+

Description

• Develop and define plans that align on vision and strategy, and reflect business goals and how Agile ways of working can be adopted and matured to support and result in positive business outcomes. • Partner across business, operations and technology with Chief Product Owners, executives, and transformation leaders to identify situational impediments to Agility, conduct root cause analyses, develop solution hypotheses, test and implement those solutions while measuring impact and encouraging continuous improvement. • Teach, lead, and mentor cross-functional business groups to build, sustain, and strengthen Agile values, concepts and practices, providing them the tools and guidance to successfully implement across high impact programs throughout the enterprise. • Grow trust and health of the collective team, checking that our commitments, pace, and quality are on track with organizational standards. • Ensure appropriate risk management and control practices are integrated into the lifecycle of Agile initiatives. • Own the charge in enhancing Agile delivery processes to reduce areas of uncertainty by identifying trade-offs between short- and long-term benefits to drive a shared vision. • Coach and promote metrics for continuous improvement of the Agile delivery process and propose solutions to the methodology to enhance it and care for unique situations. • Stay ahead of industry trends of Agile and standard methodologies for enhancing the practice. • Identify and coach Agile evangelists across the organization who can function as informal mentors/peers and continue increasing the maturity of the organization by embedding learning and innovation in the day-to-day.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree and/or related experience. • Ability to lead independently with minimal guidance and optimally leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization. • Knowledge of business concepts, tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business. • Demonstrates adaptability by seamlessly transitioning between coaching, teaching, facilitating, and mentoring stances to effectively address the unique needs and contexts of each situation. • Strong written and verbal communication to communicate sophisticated messages and new concepts. • Strong emotional intelligence and organizational awareness with ability to challenge organizational norms and influence decisions without formal authority. • Demonstrated experience with Change Management. • Flexibility and ability to work in ambiguous situations as well as experience with large scale software delivery and/or Agile transformation at scale in large enterprise organizations will be critical to success. • A deep knowledge and background of Agile methods as well as shown results using Agile principles and coached/led initiatives using Scrum or Kanban and efforts using Scrum at Scale, SAFe, or other scaling frameworks. • Considerable experience and/or deep expertise with tools including JIRA, Confluence, and Jira Align. • Professional agile certifications with preference to IC-ACC, SPC, or Certified LeSS Practitioner.

Benefits

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level. • Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance. • Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave. • Retirement plans: 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%). • Company-funded pension plan. • Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs. • Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development. • Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations. • Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.