Title: Product Coach

Location:

Charlotte, NC

Alternative Location:

Minneapolis, MN

Duration: 12 months

Work Engagement: W2

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Transformation Coaching. Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Transformation Coaching business solutions. Strategically engage with client personnel.

Responsibilities:

• Build relationships and act as an advisor to executives, senior leadership and teams to guide and influence transformational change for highly complex business needs
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise to translate Agile and product theory into practical and tangible actions which upskill people, and help evolve how teams work together
• Coach activation and operationalization of products and continuous delivery of customer centric work, including creation of product roadmaps, development of product backlogs, and iterative application development using modern engineering practices
• Strong executive presence with a comfort in communicating beside senior leaders in transformational environments
• Foster maturation of Agile behaviors and product delivery concepts across all levels of staff, and coach leaders to consider readiness, complexity, pragmatic strategies, and the structure required to support software and enable transformation success
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex challenges by asking open, analytical questions to help rethink, change and coordinate the way work is structured
• Create, gain buy-in for, and implement proactive coaching plans that leverage observations and enterprise maturity assessments to evolve the skills of team members, engineering managers, and product managers toward higher levels of maturity
• Ability to quickly shift between being a facilitator, mentor, coach and trainer to best support the organization
• Actively participate in forums and communities of practice to provide strategic thought leadership and guidance on proven approaches for resolving impediments to accelerate delivery
• Guide product managers and product owners on the beneficial use of metrics for continuous improvements and data-inspired decisions
• Provide vision, direction and mentoring for peer coaches, Scrum Masters, and others, to aid growth and improvement

Qualifications:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Strong executive presence with a comfort in communicating beside senior leaders in transformational environments
• Prior experience with project to product transformations
• Experience leading discussions with individuals at varying levels of the organization that result in a shared understanding and consensus on a path forward
• Ability to develop, deliver and mentor effective, well-articulated, written, and oral communications (e.g., emails, presentation materials) applying appropriate level of content/ detail dependent upon audience and intent
• Demonstrated reasonable level of technical and business understanding to optimize credibility with teams and managers
• Works with all levels in the organization to teach and coach the product management principles and practices
• Clear understanding of how to establish product operation standards
• Strong executive presence, facilitation skills, drive for results, attention to quality and detail, and a synergetic attitude