Director, Agile Delivery Chapter

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Job Description:

The Chapter Lead is a people manager within the Agile Delivery domain, focusing on skill/people development and the continuous improvement of Agile Delivery. This includes developing chapter members through peer-coaching, training, mentorship, and ensuring teams have the capabilities needed to succeed. The Chapter Lead also builds and promotes knowledge, standards, and best practices for the domain more broadly in collaboration with other Chapters Leads. The Chapter Lead will have chapter members reporting to them and will act as a performance coach, supporting goal setting and development.

Preferred skills

• Expert in the Agile Delivery domain; strong understanding of Agile methodologies
• Ability to develop and promote high performing Agile Delivery team members
• Proficiency in Scaled Agile (SAFe) preferred
• A progressive thought leader who can build engaged teams and promote continuous improvement

Qualifications

• 5+ years working in an agile delivery role
• Experience in scaled agile delivery preferred
• Experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams as a people manager
• Experience identifying and acquiring talent, resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
• Experience encouraging team members to create a rewarding working environment in which they are driven and motivated to have a real impact
• Experience creating an environment of learning and continuously improving your skills, and the skills of those in your chapter
• Experience in fast-paced Agile environments

Responsibilities

• Act as the performance coach to a team of Agile Delivery domain experts
• Develop and manage expertise within the Agile Delivery domain
• As a people manager, develop and execute a talent strategy that enables career progression and mobility, and professional development
• Refine standards and best practices within the Agile Delivery domain
• Manage and develop capabilities within the domain through coaching, training, and mentoring
• Manage capability roadmaps for chapter members to develop “T-shaped” profiles
• Support the organization in talent management for the domain
• Anticipate future needs for critical skills/competencies and develop workforce plans to meet them
• Establish the direction of professional development for chapter members
• Manage and/or participate in the review of practitioners’ progression, performance, and compensation process
• Actively participate in the Chapter leadership community of practice to ensure consistency and alignment in chapter management practices and expectations

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Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being – mental, physical and financial – including generous vacation and sick time, market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave, a partially-paid sabbatical program, medical plans, company paid life and AD&D insurance as well as disability programs and more  
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Retirement and Stock Purchase programs to help build and enhance your future financial security including a 401(k) plan with an employer-paid match as well as an employer-funded retirement account   
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A flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture   
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Great Place to Work® Certified in Canada and the U.S.   
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Named as a “Top 10” employer by the Boston Globe's “Top Places to Work” two years running  
   
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.  
   
If you are a California resident, the salary range for this position is:  
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Southern California region: $152,100 - $228,200 annually 
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Central California region: $160,300 - $240,500 annually 
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Northern California region: $171,400 - $257,100 annually 
  
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