About the role

Role Overview

As an Agile Coach, you will help organizations transition to an agile mindset and culture. You’ll work with clients to understand their products, processes, and tools, identify improvement opportunities, and guide teams toward effective agile and SAFe practices.

Responsibilities

Help clients build and lead a product culture focused on valuable and viable solutions
Solve complex problems using clear reasoning and compelling storytelling
Advise on Agile, SAFe, and Scrum @ Scale strategies across the organization
Build trust and collaborative relationships with stakeholders across ARTs (e.g., Scrum Masters, leadership, Product Owners/Product Managers, and ART teams)
Facilitate setting OKRs aligned to product teams and rolled up to organizational goals
Coach teams on agile principles and processes, including Product Vision, Product Strategy, and aligning roadmaps to customer value
Partner with teams to improve their agile practices
Identify practical approaches to keep teams engaged and motivated in a remote environment
Escalate impediments and risks and explain impact in plain language

Requirements

US Citizenship or Green Card status and ability to pass a Public Trust clearance process for a US Government client
3+ years experience as an Agile Coach
Experience leading agile transformations
Effective coach: strong communicator, patient, and enjoys teaching
Working understanding of software methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
Strong facilitation skills, including leading training and sessions for backlog development/refinement and problem-solving workshops
Experience across the product management lifecycle
Strong written and oral communication skills
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Certifications / Nice to Haves

SPC 5.0 (required)
RTE and Scrum Master certifications (strongly preferred)
Reside in a US SBA HUBZone or willing to relocate (strongly preferred)
Knowledge of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Automation (strongly preferred)

Benefits

Competitive salary plus medical/dental/vision (details truncated in source) and a Lean Start-Up mentality with growth and reward.

About hatch I.T.

Packaged Agile is a boutique agile and digital services-focused coaching and consulting company. It helps clients deliver measurable value to customers and promote “good agile” across public and private sectors. The role is partnered via hatch I.T. and emphasizes coaching, agile transformations, and strong product culture development.

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