Key Responsibilities
• Coach product teams and Product Owners on product discovery
• Grow and support product owners to become better product thinkers and leaders:
o Set the direction and develop the leadership skills required to become an effective product leader.
o Design and grow a flexible and adaptable product organisation around empowered product teams.
o Develop people and drive a modern product management practice.
• Help refine the structure of the coaching framework we have created to improve how our company build a product that continuously delivers value to its customers.
• Improve teams and business ability to ship quality products.
• Provide product insights and collaborative decision-making to help the team when faced with challenges with a shared focus that is aligned with our values and strategy by unifying a high-performing team.
• Implement the Agile process, principles, and practices across all units in the organisation, by using techniques that promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.
• Practise Agile such that it changes the culture and work processes of the organization to be more efficient and value-adding. Embody the Agile principles and lead by example.
• Explore and experiment with enterprise scaling of agile and business agility
• Maintain a Centre of Excellence on Agile/Digital Culture and Product Management practices.
• Conduct Agile Product Development-related training curriculum suitable for the organisation.
Requirements
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields
• Minimum 5 years of product manager or product designer experience.
• Significant experience in a product leadership role with strong coaching and people development ability
• Practical experience in product discovery techniques, data-informed product management, experimentation, and hypothesis-driven development.
• Scrum.org Product Owner certification (PSPO II) or Professional Scrum with UX (PSU)
• Demonstrates strong knowledge of agile concepts and approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, OKR, Design Thinking, and Lean Startup.
• Being strategic and highly practical. Able to adapt the methods to the organisational reality for best outcomes.
• Possess experience in coaching teams in agile adoption, enthusiastic about Agile practices and their benefits.
• Ability to weave in and out of Facilitating, Coaching, Teaching, Mentoring and Advising stances.
• Exceptional influencing skills to achieve organisational cooperation, buy-in, and engagement from senior management, BUs and internal stakeholders.
