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01/10 Richa Sandilaya
Senior HR Executive at Monotype Solutions India Pvt Ltd

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Global Agile Coach - IT (8-20 yrs)

Noida Job Code: 852754

Are you our - TYPE- ? Brands constantly seek to achieve deeper appeal and connection with their target audience and customers. They express themselves in unique ways, in ways that are meaningful, attractive and compelling to their audience. Fonts play a key role inthisand are central to every brand's visual identity and expression. Headquartered in the Boston area of the United States and offices across 4 continents, Monotype is the world's #1 company in fonts. It's a trusted partner to the world's top brands and was named - One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design for 2018- by Fast Company. Monotype's fonts and technologies help bring brands to life!


Monotype Solutions India is a strategic center of excellence for Monotype and is a certified Great Place to Work- . It is based in NOIDA, Sector 125 (Delhi/NCR). The focus of this fast-growing center spans Market Research, Research in areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Product Management, Product Development, Product Marketing, Revenue Marketing, Customer Success and Enterprise Business Solutions. The Position: Are you passionate about delivering customer value? Do you enjoy constantly improving a vibrant culture of constant improvement? Do you have an eye for impediments and enjoy working with people to overcome?


Do you subscribe to the value of accountable autonomy? Do you care about employee experience and the level of joy teams experience in their work? All of this in the service of customers and related business objectives? If you answered these questions in the affirmative, this position may be right for you. Monotype adopted Scrum close to a decade ago and adopted the Agile Spotify Model about four years back.


As part of this transformation, the organization, it's culture, architecture of products, technology stacks and tools used and the process of planning, forecasting, delivery, deployment etc, have all morphed considerably. As we expand the business in a number of verticals and across newer geographies, this transformation will continue to fuel the business. The individual in this Global Agile Coach role is expected to help drive a lot of this evolutionary transformation. The Role: Reporting to the India Head with dotted line reporting to Monotype's Chief Technology Officer who is based in the US, the Agile Coach will be responsible for the continued Agile evolution of Monotype, specifically encompassing Product Management and Product Delivery. 


- This position shall span each of the four major product teams (Tribes in Spotify lingo) at Monotype and needs to be a trusted partner & Agile coach to the CTO and the CMO (the product management team reports into the CMO) as well. - The Agile Coach will work closely with the leadership of each of the Tribes to help them drive toward their respective objectives. From planning and forecasting, to execution and retrospection. - The Agile Coach shall report on and evolve Agile metrics for the organization, in service of the employee well being and in service of the business objectives. - This individual will manage the Agile Practitioners embedded in each sub-team (Squads, in the Spotify lingo).

Responsibilities- :


- Responsible for driving iterative improvement across the Product Management and the Product Development organizations.


- Bring in best practices and facilitate the organization to live Agile, at scale. Experience with different models is useful, especially Jeff Sutherland's Scrum@Scale.


- Coach Scrum teams in Agile values and best practices, teams of teams in multi-sprint - big room- planning, engineering craftsmanship best practices and enabling delivery at scale across multiple squads.


- Contribute to development of unified Agile methodology, through alignment with product management and engineering stakeholders.


- Help teams to understand and clarify expectations of goals, outcomes and delivery.


- Help continue to build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.


- Help teams to sustain a healthy flow/ throughput by predicting, anticipating and removing impediments and bottlenecks.


- Deliver needed Agile training to align our product & engineering teams around a common language and methodology for Monotype.


- Participate in creation of Agile coaching strategy, creating a common approach that would help our teams deliver with improved effectiveness, efficiency & joyfulness.


- Assess the Agile maturity of the teams and coach the team to continuously improve efficiency, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.


- Partner with product and engineering leaders from across Tribes to enable them as impediment removers for our teams.


- Facilitate communities of practice(Guilds in Spotify lingo) to enable craftsmanship for product owners, development engineers, quality, Scrum masters and Agile program managers. - Be the influencer to help transform product & engineering teams (Tribes) at Monotype into self-learning and continuously improving teams.

- Support the creation of a culture that empowers self-organizing teams, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, quality and speed to market.


- Support and educate Product managers, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog. - Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.


Qualifications :


- 6+ years of Agile coaching experience.


- Experience and active participation in successful Agile transformations, with demonstrable results.


- Communication and change management expertise spanning software developers to senior executives.


- Skilled in the development of Agile metrics to incentivize best practice behaviours - Experience in product management or engineering development, and leadership of product development teams. - Interest and deep expertise in coaching and facilitation,is a must, preferably at the company leadership level as well. - Interest and expertise in human psychology and organizational behaviour is a plus.

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