Senior Agile Delivery Coach (6 month contract)
13 days ago
We’re looking for a product-focused Agile Delivery Manager/Coach to join our ustwo team in Malmö on a fixed term basis. The contract would be for six months initially, with the possibility to extend to one year. You would be working on the ongoing product feature development and maintenance of a well-known European automotive brand’s mobile app.
We’re a small and supportive community of Agile Delivery Coaches, and we’re looking for a versatile and passionate delivery person, experienced with supporting the full product lifecycle from early stage opportunity/product discovery through to live product optimisation.
You'll support the teams in the use of good Agile mindsets grounded in Agile principles. In other words, you’ll be the guardian and champion of using Agile ways of working and thinking. You'll support teams to create great team dynamics, foster an atmosphere of collaboration, and to overcome conflicts that may arise. You will use your project management skills to handle team logistics, track and report project budgets, manage risks, manage senior stakeholder expectations and generally keep on top of things to keep the project moving along smoothly. Lastly, ideally you’ll have experience working in an agency, understanding the dynamics at play being a client service business, while empathising with clients and the commercial contexts they operate under.
So, if you’re comfortable supporting and organising build teams of around 10 people, have a deep understanding of Agile approaches, delight in building cohesive and well-functioning teams, and want to be part of a collaborative and dynamic culture that puts people in the centre, then this is probably the gig for you.
About ustwo
Founded by two friends back in 2004, ustwo has grown into an award-winning digital product studio with strong design and tech credentials, and with creativity at the heart. We solve our clients’ business challenges with useful digital products that bring joy. And we do it as a team of people who like, respect and learn from each other. At ustwo we invent, design and build digital products, services, and immersive experiences that people love. We also help our clients to change their digital culture and boost their capabilities.
We believe that by caring deeply for our people, clients, and partners, we can unleash our “collective genius”. That means mastering the art of collaboration, crafting the optimal conditions for a team to perform at its absolute best.
Location
We have a wonderful studio in central Malmö, Sweden, which is very close to the station Triangeln. We have two mandatory universal studio days a week, but the majority of Malmö ustwobies work from the studio 3-4 times a week. We would expect that you would live in a commutable distance to the studio, and if you are based in Copenhagen then we also offer a competitive commuter bonus in addition to your salary, to account for the difference in living costs.
REQUIREMENTS
Agile/Lean Ways of Working & Mindset - You’ve coached many Agile product teams and have a deep expertise in Agile ways of working and mindset. You’re comfortable working in the context of large corporates. You are able to discuss Agile fluently without relying on jargon.
Design and Development Collaboration - You have experience, and are able to guide teams, in how UI/UX design and development can best collaborate together in the spirit of Agile delivery.
Team Dynamics - You understand the characteristics of high performing teams and have a wide variety of tools available to you to help guide a team towards greater dynamics, collaboration and effectiveness.
Conflict Management - You're comfortable addressing intra-team challenges and supporting individuals through conflict resolution.
Stakeholder Relationships - You’re able to cultivate trust and grow meaningful relationships with clients' senior stakeholders, encourage engagement and alignment of expectations, and empathise with the challenges they are facing. You can empathise with the culture of large corporates.
Proactive - You are proactive in supporting your teams, always trying to be steps ahead in identifying opportunities to make their lives easier.
Continuous Improvement - You’re continuously looking for ways to improve delivery processes and eager to learn more about better ways of building teams and products.
Encouraging Growth - You recognise that it’s often the unsaid that holds us back, so you champion a culture of encouraging constructive feedback – both by providing individual feedback and coaching to team members and requesting it for your own improvement.
Leadership - You can read a situation and recognise when it's appropriate and necessary to intervene, or to let things unfold.
Positive and Upbeat - You bring a positive and enthusiastic spirit to everything you do. And you are good at infecting your teams with good vibes.
Fun - You like to have fun and find opportunities to bring fun to the day to day with your teams.
Project Administration - Timesheet approvals and leave tracking.
ustwo is committed to making a measurable positive impact on people’s everyday lives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We believe diverse teams help us make better products and we actively hire for cultural growth. We welcome people of all ages, stories and backgrounds. We provide everyone with equal access to professional development.
ustwo combines expertise in product and service development, ventures and gaming to make a meaningful impact on the challenges companies and individuals face in contemporary culture.
Over the years, we have been carving out a reputation in the space between digital product development and new experience design.
Our deep product development knowledge, our design heritage and our leadership at the edges of technology and culture, means we are capable of providing fresh creative and strategic direction on genuinely new experiences, as well as deep technical expertise on implementation - never disconnecting strategy from implementation.
This combination of capabilities is rare and valuable, particularly in a market that’s seeing ever-increasing convergence of entertainment, gaming, content, commerce, and platforms.
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