Director Of Agile Delivery

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Products and Technology

Job Details

Who We Are:
We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good– you’ve come to the right place.
What We Do:
Salesforce has one of the best-regarded Agile at-scale stories in the industry, and we continuously seek to improve and push boundaries. As an Agile Transformation Coach for teams, you will be an individual contributor with the responsibility to design and implement a strategy for technology teams to continuously improve their use of Agile principles and delivery practices:

• Help teams inspect, adapt, deliver, and mature.
• Use your Agile/Lean approach and coaching expertise to facilitate the process and partner with internal customers within the Technology, Marketing, and Products organization.
• Interacting and engaging with executives to define and deliver outcomes for their teams.
• Support teams in their Agile journey by improving their current practices and establishing new practices for the teams.

Your Impact:
Trusted Partner and Coach

• Coach and mentor leaders and teams toward improving business agility - organizational adaptability, leadership effectiveness and product innovation
• Empower others to adopt and adapt Salesforce Agile guidelines (e.g., Release planning, DoR, DOD, role excellence and responsibilities.)
• Interact directly with product, development and/or operations organization to coach and guide them to adopt ways of working to improve organizational adaptability, product innovation, and leadership effectiveness.
• Provide hands-on coaching for leaders and teams in all aspects of Scrum and Kanban principles and practices - daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, limiting WIP, retrospectives etc.
• Strong enterprise organizational background, partnering with executive leadership to define strategy and roll out initiatives. Requires experience with all roles and levels from enterprise and executive leadership to team coaching.

Facilitator and Teacher

• Facilitate workshops on topics (e.g. working agreements, release level retrospectives, assessments, Agile practices)
• Support internal certification and continuing growth of team Scrum Leads and Product Owners.
• Create, build, and deliver training classes and workshops to organizations, teams, Scrum Leads, Product Owners, leaders and functional managers, so they can understand and optimally embody their Agile roles and responsibilities.

Agile Leadership

• Be highly ambitious. Influence within business units using Agile and Lean principle and values, to build, grow, innovate, and maintain a thriving Agile organization at scale.
• Expose your teams to the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the Agile community to increase agility, demonstrating Lean, Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile thinking.
• Create, launch, and facilitate Agile collaborative groups, Communities of Practice, and Agile Working Groups.
• Adopt agile leadership and lead by example with behaviors informed by Agile and Lean principles as well as the Salesforce values of Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, Equality and Sustainability .

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience applying Agile/Lean methodologies within product, infrastructure, hardware, and/or operational environments.
• Deep knowledge of Agile principles and practices and the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organization.
• Application of principles in one or more of these development fields: design, development, testing, and management; can relate principles, and practices into performing these subject areas in an Agile environment.
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
• 12+ years of experience in technology organizations.
• Senior Agile Leadership skills with an ability to lead by example and challenge command and control behaviors.
• Excellent presentation and training skills.
• Consulting and facilitation skills in leading technical teams in the adoption and improvement of Agile methodologies.
• 5+ years of large-scale Agile coaching experience with methods such as XP, Scrum, Lean, or Kanban.
• Certified Scrum Lead and Product Owner or equivalent.

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For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $168,300 to $330,800.

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