Agile Coach

About the opportunity

In this role, you will:

• Put people first and value human interaction over process.
• Embrace radical change and aren't scared of ambiguity or the unknown.
• Make a positive impact on individuals, teams, and the products they build.
• Become a key component of your segment leadership team, partnering with EMs, PMs, and Tech Leads to align OKRs, problems & opportunities and roadmaps.
• Own and drive end-to-end change initiatives and strategic improvements across the product development lifecycle.
• Mentor and guide less experienced Agile coaches through structured coaching agreements to support their professional growth.
• Optimize and improve scaled ways of working. 
• Design and facilitate large-scale workshops and offsites for domain and leadership levels to solve complex problems and drive alignment.

• Be framework agnostic, not dogmatic, and have a diverse problem-solving toolkit.
• Have a holistic understanding of how being (not doing) Agile is a great way to build products customers love to use.
• Drive change (not just observe it) and transformations and deliver tangible cultural or ways-of-working improvements.
• Enable teams to own their work and coach them to be outcome-driven. 
• Understand that building trust in your teams, senior leaders and with your peers is paramount. 
• Work across multiple interdependent complex team structures working towards the same goal.
• Be comfortable dealing with conflicts and can mediate them effectively. 

What you need to be successful:

• Proven experience as an Agile Coach with hands-on experience in coaching multiple teams ideally in complex product led orgs. 
• You are a highly skilled communicator and facilitator who knows how to adapt their stances.
• Proven experience influencing and coaching senior leadership, including EMs, PMs, and Heads of departments.
• You have experience in helping new teams form, setting them up for success and helping them gel effectively.
• A data and hypothesis-driven approach.
• The ability to manage and collaborate with product, technology, UX and functional stakeholders from Operations, Risk and Growth.
• Ability to navigate complexity quickly to solve seemingly impossible challenges.
• Exceptional ability to manage and resolve complex cross-team dependencies and systemic bottlenecks via systems thinking. 
• Expert-level conflict mediation and facilitation skills, capable of navigating high-stakes discussions at scale.
• A very strong toolkit consisting of various flavours of Agile methodologies with a focus on applying them in a framework-agnostic manner.
• A background in driving organizational agility and large-scale cultural transformations in tech-led environments.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to handle resistance to change and effectively guide teams through the transition from traditional to Agile practices.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working in a regulated environment like financial institutions is a big bonus.
• Experience as a Program Manager or having taken a program manager stance to help successfully manage, communicate & deliver initiatives.

What’s in it for you:

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked-about disruptors 🚀.
• Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work-from-home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation. 
• As an N26 employee, you'll have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.    
• Vacation days vary depending on your location of work. Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.  
• A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies - all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, life experiences and family statuses. 
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.

What’s in it for you:

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors.
• Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation. 
• As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.    
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.  
• A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies - all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, life experiences and backgrounds. 
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.

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