Agile Coach - Toronto, Canada - Flipp

Flipp

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Flipp is a pre-IPO company on a mission to help shoppers provide for their families by making life more affordable by leveraging technology.

We work with the largest retailers and manufacturers in the world to help them transform their businesses and connect them with millions of shoppers through our next-generation digital shopping marketplace.

Our award-winning Flipp app is used by millions of shoppers every week to make better purchase decisions and to save 20-40% off their bills.

With the recent increase in costs of living, Flipp's mission has never been more relevant. Flipp's Shopper Consideration Platform allows retailers and manufacturers to create digital experiences from their savings & deals content. These experiences help Shoppers decide what to buy and where to buy it. Flipp then connects those retailer and manufacturer experiences to millions of shoppers through Flipp's owned and operated channels.

The Agile Coach is responsible for promoting and implementing Agile values and methodologies across Engineering to ensure the most effective outcomes for the organization.

They will do this by developing agile teams and facilitating the culture change necessary for sustained success.

The Agile Coach will work closely with product, design, and development team members to achieve value driven delivery, while guiding teams in their evolution of Agile principles and practices.

This person will analyze our organization's existing setup and implement improvements to streamline challenging processes. The Agile Coach will be the Agile expert for the teams they support.

They will work with leaders in their domain to ensure they are equipping teams with the right knowledge, tools, and training to be most effective.

In addition, they will be a mentor and coach other Agile Coaches or scrum masters transitioning to Agile Coach roles.

What you'll get the opportunity to do:

Mentoring, Coaching & Training
Train, mentor, & coach less experienced Agile Coaches (and Scrum Masters transitioning to Agile Coaches) to help with the growth of the Agile team.
Oversee and maintain team and domain (where applicable) Agile processes while contributing learnings to the Agile Delivery team.
Ensures that the entire team (Product Manager, Development Team & Engineering Manager) are respecting the agile values, principles, and practices, while keeping a focus on what is needed by the team in order to successfully deliver the highest amount of value possible.
Lead the creation and delivery of presentations, workshops, and training material on agile practices and techniques. (i.e. User Story Writing, Estimation, Story Splitting, Story Mapping).
Coach and mentor development teams on selforganization and crossfunctionality to drive faster delivery of valuable, highquality products.
Coach and support domain leadership on Agile, ensuring they understand how best to support and add value to their teams and team members

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Agile Subject Matter Expertise (SME)

Drive and lead change
Evaluate and identify opportunities for Agile improvement at both domain and team level, including tooling, communication, collaboration, activities, standards, measurement, and adaptation.
Ensure engineering teams and the organization as a whole are aware and making use of Agile software development and delivery best practices by doing research and keeping up on the latest trends and innovations within the Agile community.
With expert knowledge of their team's stakeholders, provide insight into crossteam dependencies, supporting the product and development team in their execution.
Support new ENG/Product teams in setting up Agile practices, processes, and frameworks.

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Planning and Delivery

Responsible for ensuring that the team's work and impediments are visible and addressed in a timely manner.
Responsible for maintaining team information radiators (JIRA Boards, KPI's, etc. ) to help Eng and Product Managers keep a pulse on
Supports the team in coordinating any product release activities with the appropriate engineering and product team members.
Responsible for ensuring that any road maps produced accurately reflect what the team is capable of delivering based on their performance. This does not mean the Agile Coach maintains the Roadmap but ensures that the information is accurate by working closely with the Product and Engineering Manager.
Where applicable, lead and facilitate meetings that contribute to the scaled planning and execution of work (i.e. Sprint Planning, Grooming, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Quarterly planning)

What you'll bring to the team:

Minimum of 5 years experience in the role of Scrum Master or a similar role (i.e. Agile Coach, Agile Project Manager)
Previous experience working with project management tools like JIRA
Previous experience working Confluence
Solid fundamentals in software development
A passion for constant improvement (always looking to do things