What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agile Delivery Lead 2 position at HNI Workplace Furnishings?
HNI Corporation is a global family of brands for the workplace and home dedicated to enhancing the spaces where we live, work, and gather. We pride ourselves on fostering an environment where we make a positive impact on others, upholding our beliefs in integrity, inclusion and belonging.
Your Impact Starts the Day You Do!
We are looking for an Agile Delivery Lead II to join our HNI Workplace Furnishings team.
The Agile Delivery Lead II is accountable for the effectiveness of multiple agile teams, ensuring continuous improvement and delivery of high-value product increments. As a servant leader, this role fosters an environment of collaboration, agility, and executional excellence while championing agile product delivery within a scaled environment.
What You Will Do:
- Ensure teams are effective and continuously improving, leveraging agile principles for high-quality, predictable delivery.
- Owns and ensures transparency of flow metrics (cycle time, throughput, work in progress, predictability) to inform decision-making and improve delivery efficiency.
- Facilitates the integration of work across teams, ensuring an integrated, cohesive increment is delivered each sprint.
- Removes organizational impediments that hinder flow, engaging management to drive necessary changes.
- Partners with product managers and stakeholders align backlogs with strategic priorities while maintaining delivery focus.
- Encourages cross-team coordination and synchronization, ensuring dependencies and risks are proactively managed.
- Mentors and develops Agile Delivery Leads 1 and team members, fostering agile mindset adoption across the organization.
- Encourages collaboration, trust, and self-organization within teams, supporting their ability to own and drive their work.
- Leads agile coaching efforts, workshops, and training sessions to reinforce agile behaviors and methodologies.
- Influences scaled agile events, actively contribute to cross-team planning and ensuring smooth execution at the product level.
- Drive continuous improvement through experimentation, learning and adaptation.
- Participate in events and activities as appropriate to ensure the success of the organization.
What You Have:
- High School diploma or equivalent required; bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field preferred.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master I (PSMI) certification preferred.
- Ability to obtain Professional Scrum Master I (PSMI) certification within 90 days of start date is required.
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) I certification is preferred.
- Ability to obtain Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) I certification within 90 days of start date is required.
- Nexus or LeSS scaled agile certifications preferred.
