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Senior Agile Coach - 6 month contract

We’re looking for a passionate, experienced delivery-focused lean and agile expert to join us for a 6 month contract. You will be joining an existing mobile product team working closely with designers, developers, testers and the client product owner.

Your role will be varied. You'll be responsible for effective product delivery, whilst contributing to the improvement of our delivery processes. You'll create great team dynamics, and help individuals grow both personally and professionally. You will also use your project management skills to monitor and report project budgets and manage senior stakeholders’ expectations.

If you have plenty of experience with supporting teams of various sizes, using a variety of agile and lean approaches, delight in building cohesive well-functioning teams and want to be part of a collaborative and dynamic culture that puts people in the centre, then we'd love to hear from you.

This role will be part time for 3 days a week, with the view of it moving to full time after 3 months. Candidates must be residing and eligible to work in Australia.

ABOUT USTWO

ustwo is an industry-leading digital product studio with an expansive portfolio spread across client projects, our own products (Monument Valley, Sway, Moodnotes) and ventures. We strive to create digital products that improve people’s lives and make a meaningful impact on the world. We do this by harnessing our collective genius through sharing and learning from each other and leveraging each individual’s unique skills.

What You’ll Do...

• Drive and deliver on projects that exceed the client’s expectation supporting full product delivery cycles from discovery and build to handover
• Build, guide and support high performing teams by facilitating key ceremonies/workshops and encouraging learnings within the team
• Use and introduce latest tools and methods to unlock your team’s potential
• Champion a culture of constructive feedback, both individually and as a group
• Teaches and coaches client, team members and stakeholders to create an effective working environment
• Lead and advocate for delivery best practices, comfortably challenging project decisions and providing alternative approaches
• Continuously seek ways to improve delivery processes and learn about better ways of building teams and products
• Solid understanding on how to cultivate and grow meaningful relationships with clients and external stakeholders helping to create one team
• Measure and forecast progress against project milestones, ensuring visibility to both the team and client
• Support the client by helping them influence and drive change within their own organisation and empathise with the challenges they face
• Partner with the Product Owner in using a variety of approaches to manage technical, product, business and schedule risk on the project
• Manage project budgets, optimising return on investment
• Collaborate with the commercial team to develop and negotiate contracts, budgets and Scope of Work documents
• Works closely with client to identify and address project needs and initiate commercial conversations
• Help clients to understand the value of ustwo’s methods and processes, championing their use across the engagement and beyond
• Ultimate goal: Build the right product, building it right - don’t miss the mark (tradeoff speed vs quality etc.)

About You...

• Role model of the principles and values you stand for and look to foster the same within your teams
• Skilled in agile and lean methodologies able to use the right tools to fit the project and team.
• Able to remain calm under pressure and ensure stable team performance
• Detail oriented and highly organised, able to juggle many moving parts
• Strong understanding of tech and design and able to speak both languages
• Cultivate a culture of transparency, communicating effectively across the project and wider team
• Solid understanding of team development approaches
• Eager to explore new ideas and approaches, encouraging learning at a personal and team level
• Seeking to push forwards and go beyond your comfort zone
• Stakeholder management - creating alignment etc.
• Solid experience in a similar role

Diversity

We have a warm and welcoming culture. We are a transparent company and work hard to distribute leadership across the studio. We are an equal opportunity employer and very much value diversity and inclusion. We believe diverse teams help us make better products and we actively hire for cultural growth. We seek people of all ages, race, genders, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, stories, cognitive capabilities and backgrounds.

Our Values

We live our values through how we approach our work, our clients, our teams and ourselves. We’re looking for someone who embodies these values and helps us raise the bar.

Be human. You are empathetic and care about the impact of actions on others. You speak your mind; no politics, no games. You lead by example.

Learn together . You have a curiosity to explore new ideas and share your knowledge with others.

Raise the bar. You don’t stand still. You always push forwards and go beyond your comfort zone. You are a work in progress and comfortable with that. You do things that make people say “I wish I thought of that.”

Use the freedom. You relish independence and harness it to experiment and push boundaries. You build trust with people and provoke change.

Enjoy the journey. You celebrate, even when you fail. You make studio life count and enjoy the ride!