Job Description
As a Product Agility Lead, you will act as a leader and Agile transformational leader for the Collections Product. Our Product Agility Leads are open, approachable, collaborative, enjoy working with passionate people and drive agility. You embrace agility as a practice and are responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals. You have a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes while driving Agile frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement.
The Product Agility Lead will evaluate the health of the product in order to identify opportunity for improvements around scaling Agile and product management, as well as assisting leaders and teams in maturing their product vision, planning, and delivery. This role will be accountable for partnering with leaders to develop a strategy to set and achieve the objectives and key results for the product.
Our culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big, and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. We are excited to see what you will bring to our team.
Job Responsibilities:
- Work with the product organization to ensure successful implementation of agility ways of working. Including but not limited to: Backlog Management, Ideation Process, Product inner workings.
- Facilitate groups of 50 or more, coaching multiple teams & individuals across the Product
- Create an environment of collaboration that allows for open dialogue, productive solutions for resolving conflicts and experiments to continuously improve.
- Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvements events
- Communicate organizational impediments to leadership; teach team to remove impediments
- Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey, and instill the same in the team(s) you coach
- Teach systems thinking and servant leadership
- Elevate team performance by utilizing techniques such as: professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation
- Participate in Scrum Team Level events to provide coaching and support the career growth of Agility Leads
- Mentor others in Agility and Leadership within your product and to the broader organization
- Coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog including empirical planning
Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience in leading Agile Transformation; Agility Lead with demonstrated understanding of scaling framework; influence for up to 25 teams and facilitating appropriate scrum events; experience using various Agile frameworks such as Kanban & XP
- Expertise with Agile and Scrum Framework and its application in Product Development and delivery organization
- Ability to collaborate and influence with people at various levels; ability to leverage capabilities across the firm to solve local problems
- Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as LeSS and various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban, XP
- Ability to coach and mentor; ability to leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution, and more to serve the team(s); executive coaching experience, and ability to coach multiple teams across the product
- Experience developing shared internal training and learning materials that apply the principles of Lean, Agile, and product transformation
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Ability to evaluate organizational maturity and create a plan to improve it
- Experience in software development and engineering within legal and regulatory control applications
- Agile Certifications preferred
About Us
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking Group depends on innovators like you to serve consumers, small businesses, municipalities and non-profits. You'll support the delivery of award winning tools and services that cover everything from personal and small business banking as well as lending, mortgages, credit cards, payments, auto finance and investment advice. This group is also focused on developing and delivering cutting edged mobile applications, digital experiences and next generation banking technology solutions to better serve our clients and customers.
What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.
Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.
Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
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Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
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