What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agile Coach position at Gousto?
Company Description
About Gousto
Here at Gousto, we are on a mission to become the UK's favourite way to eat dinner!
Whether creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner.
Job Description
The Role
To support our rapid growth, we seek a growth-oriented and passionate Agile Coach to join our Agile team. You will play a pivotal role in the evolution and maturity of agile at Gousto, working closely with all levels of the organisation.
The key priority in the agile team in 2023 is defining and rolling out the Gousto Delivery System, which aims to increase time to market and develop the agile maturity of our teams. You will be working with cross-functional teams to define and implement parts of the system, changing the way they work for the better. You will champion our principles of autonomy, simplicity, transparency and sustainable pace.
You will use a combination of coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and training to help teams deliver increased business value, at a sustainable pace and will work across all roles in tech, with the potential to work with teams outside of tech in the future.
Your success is defined by driving impact across our teams, and solving key issues which hold them back from realising their full potential. You will be responsible for continuously growing Gousto's agile maturity as a guardian of Agile mindset and processes in the organisation.
What Will You Do:
- Guide teams on their adoption of lean/agile values, principles, metrics, tools, and practices.
- Collaborate across functions to identify and improve organisational/system level changes to the benefit of all teams.
- Work across teams to increase team performance, health, and overall effectiveness.
- Facilitate change through coaching, training, and workshops to embed cultural and systemic change.
- Collaborate with our agile coaches on the development of the agile guild, growing our agile community.
- Develop processes for knowledge sharing across squads and tribes.
- Act as the guardian of Agile and ensure squads do not fall back on old ways of working.
- Use delivery metrics as an inspect & adapt tool within the team.
Qualifications
What We're Looking For:
- A passionate and driven agile coach/change manager, experienced in applying agile values, principles, metrics, and experience of scrum and kanban.
- Experienced in organisational change management.
- Experience in crafting reference material/running training and workshops across teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong presentation skills.
- Self motivated, assertive, and able to manage multiple improvement efforts.
- An ability to make complex concepts simple.
- Working knowledge of JIRA and how to get the most out of it.
- Ideally, experience within a scale-up environment.
Additional Information
What’s it like working at Gousto?
All of us are responsible for the success of Gousto. Our guiding values - dream, deliver and care - show our commitment to innovation, our ambition to hit goals at speed, and our deep respect for the people we work with.
Our Principles
Dream
Be confident in your curiosity: think big, aim high and respectfully stand up for what you believe in.
Deliver
We look for effective answers that will have a real impact, take initiative to solve problems and have a healthy impatience for change.
Care
We care about our colleagues, customers and suppliers - they are key to our success - and about where our food comes from, the quality of our ingredients and our impact on the environment.
Equal opportunities
Whether it is creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto.
We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner.
Go Gousto!