About This Role
This freelance Agile Coach role supports Product and Engineering teams in delivering high-quality software through effective agile practices, continuous improvement, and a customer-first mindset. It offers an excellent opportunity to work across multiple cross-functional teams and influence organizational delivery performance at scale.
Responsibilities
- Work with Product and Engineering teams to improve the delivery of working software through effective agile practices
- Guide teams to focus on customer value, effective work breakdown, and efficient delivery approaches
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement by facilitating regular review, learning, and implementation of changes
- Identify and resolve delivery challenges, remove blockers, and reduce dependencies through collaboration with stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Help teams understand and utilize delivery metrics to measure success and improve outcomes
- Support continuous delivery practices and help teams adapt and improve their ways of working
- Encourage rapid feedback cycles through incremental software delivery
- Improve planning processes and sustainable delivery practices to create a healthy pace of work
- Drive organizational improvement initiatives by assessing current conditions, defining target states, and supporting implementation plans
- Create and maintain an environment of psychological safety, openness, and healthy debate
- Apply techniques such as root cause analysis and the 5 Whys to identify sustainable solutions
- Build stakeholder engagement through effective communication, change management, and relationship management
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and advisory support to stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Influence decision-making, facilitate alignment, and support successful negotiation outcomes across teams and stakeholders
Requirements
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in Agile Coaching, Agile Delivery, Product Management, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and continuous improvement principles
- Experience working with cross-functional Product and Engineering teams
- Ability to analyze delivery performance and identify opportunities for improvement
- Strong facilitation, coaching, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience driving behavioral and cultural change within organizations
- Knowledge of change management principles and stakeholder engagement techniques
- Strong communication, influencing, consulting, and negotiation skills
- Experience creating psychologically safe and high-performing team environments
