What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agility Lead - Product/PAL position at JPMorgan Chase?
Join our team to foster agile methodologies, encouraging a culture of innovation and high performance in a leading financial institution.
As an Agility Lead - Product/PAL in Consumer and Community Banking, you will play a significant role as a champion for the adoption and continuous improvement of Agile practices within our teams. Leveraging your deep knowledge of product development methodologies and Agile principles, use your expert guidance, mentorship, and support to teams to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance. As a recognized subject matter expert, put your knowledge to use to work on complex issues, exercise considerable judgment, and make impactful decisions that shape the operational and business direction of your sub-function. Your leadership, communication, and coaching skills will be instrumental in empowering teams to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently and effectively, while continuously adapting to changing requirements and priorities.
Job responsibilities
- Lead and coach teams to adopt and implement agile methodologies, and promote open communication and engagement among team members ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals
- Use advanced communication, facilitation, and presentation skills to manage and influence stakeholders while communicating organizational impediments to leadership
- Develop and implement short to mid-term operational and transformation plans, prioritize tasks and manage resources to achieve product goals in a timely and efficient manner through the utilization of metrics and evidence-based decisions
- Identify trends and generate original ideas to contribute to the development of new policies and best practices within the discipline
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5 years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on coaching teams and individuals on agile methodologies and project management
- Possess advanced knowledge of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices, enabling effective guidance and support for teams
- Display advanced knowledge of agile delivery and multiple agile approaches, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), and scaling frameworks, monitoring agility metrics; with the ability to guide teams through complex projects, emphasizing iterative progress and adaptability
- Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels within the organization, effectively guiding group discussions and decision-making processes within the domain context
- Experience managing and developing individual contributors
- Ability to monitor agility metrics and guide teams through improvements, emphasizing iterative progress and adaptability while providing regular reports to management on sprint outcomes and team performance across the product
- Experience in coaching a team of Agility Leads to ensure regular uplift of their teams and consistent collaboration between development teams and the product owner
- Expertise in Driving product efficiency by managing the product improvement backlog, promoting speed, efficiency, and collaboration
- Ability to oversee strategic coordination and design for quarterly planning, ensuring alignment of the product backlog with organizational goals
- Capable of enabling the product portfolio at a strategic level, ensuring that quarterly planning outputs, including objectives, delivery plans, and risk mitigation strategies, are effectively aligned across all product teams
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training on Agile coaching, such as recognized coaching certifications
- Knowledge of product operating model
- Previous management experience supporting large teams
- Recommended skills include but are not limited to: agile delivery, business acumen, change management, continuous improvement, coaching, internal stakeholder management, strategic thinking, self-study, verbal communication, adaptability, and decision making
