Director, Agile PMO

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE.

What do NASA and emerging space companies have in common with COVID vaccine R&D teams or with Roblox and the Metaverse? 

The answer is data, -- all fast moving, fast growing industries rely on data for a competitive edge in their industries. And the most advanced companies are realizing the full data advantage by partnering with Pure Storage. Pure’s vision is to redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data. With 11,000+ customers including 58% of the Fortune 500, we’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions. 

Pure is blazing trails and setting records:

• For eight straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant 
• Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally
• Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions
• And, our 4,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go

If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark.

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

In this key role, the Director, Agile PMO will report directly to the Head of Strategy & Ops and is responsible for defining and enabling the enterprise, operational, and cultural components that will drive our global Agile transformation. 

At Pure Storage, the Director, Agile PMO holds both leadership and management roles in the APMO. The Director, Agile PMO is responsible for various methods and practices around provisioning capabilities into the business, as well as improving the overall agile maturity across the organization. As part of this undertaking the Director, Agile PMO will help define and build our global Agile strategies, and then work with all levels of the organization to affect positive, sustainable change. 

As a natural servant leader, this role will develop and support a learning organization model through mentorship and coaching, encouraging training and continuous improvement throughout. The  Director, Agile PMO embodies and enables an agile culture, fosters Communities of Practice, provides community engagement opportunities, and offers career development guidance.

Experience in metric-driven delivery, and lean methodologies, will be required to build the best-in-class delivery assurance required at the enterprise level. As an arm of the overall governance function, the Director, Agile PMO is responsible for supporting and enabling the organization’s portfolios, products, programs and structured work efforts. 

Director, Agile PMO, through collaboration with peers, will drive the execution of strategy. Supporting the implementation and management of productivity tools to measurably improve performance. As a leader within the Digital Transformation Group  this role is not static and will integrate constantly changing dynamics into an evolving enterprise methodology and delivery practice. The Director, Agile PMO must combine strong delivery and lean process experience, and a proven track record of transforming large scale delivery from traditional methodologies to agile and beyond.

The Director, Agile PMO ensures that the work of the Agile Portfolio Management Office (APMO)  adds value, is relevant to the strategy of the organization, and establishes and meets strategic OKRs. They will balance agility with the need for formal risk management approaches through formal processes, whilst applying empirical continuous improvement to meet the control needs of our business and global regulatory partners.

 

What You’ll Do

 

Agile Leadership

• Accountable for the APMO team with two primary focus areas; Enterprise Performance and Lean Governance
• Evangelizes, among the APMO stakeholders and organizational leadership, a consensus around the strategic vision, associated missions and the role of the APMO to foster a product oriented culture and mindset
• Leads the identification and development of APMO roles, organizational design and recruitment appropriate to deliver the agreed-upon APMO goals and objectives
• Engages senior leadership and business partners to define the APMO mission, goals and operating model, and releases this after senior management approval, in the form of the APMO Mission Statement.
• Develops and leads the Agile Practice, putting in place the systems, processes and ways of working to sustain a high performing team, where skill developme