Agility Lead

As an Enterprise Agility Lead, you will be supporting product team and/or tower(s) across our organization and facilitating agile transformation workshops aimed at re-visioning their organization around an agile delivery and customer-centric view as well as leading agility related education classes and workshops. You will be responsible for leveraging and/or developing a transformation playbook that will be key in helping to drive our agility transformation.

Our culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big, and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

Job Responsibilities:

• Be thoroughly familiar with the organization's agility strategy, initiatives, and expectations to ensure the alignment with agile operating expectations.
• Work with Technology Partners and/or Tower Leads to transform the organizations to agility centric teams through the facilitation of assessments and workshops, guide them through transformation playbook by aligning agility priorities based on maturity.
• Coach technology partners, tower leads, and agility leads in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning and quarterly outcome-based roadmaps.
• Drive a culture of transparency and shared understanding by using metrics correctly to develop and communicate a clear narrative that correctly conveys the organizations (products and/or towers) strengths and opportunities, and to help teams focus on continuous improvement. Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts.
• Serve as a shock absorber for what's coming next and ensure information is flowing to Agility Leads and across the product group.
• Promote JIRA Standards & Guidelines (and support Jira Align onboarding)
• Communicate organizational impediments to leadership; teach and clear impediments for the team.
• Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events.
• Identify agility related learning priorities (up-skilling & re-skilling) including providing training sessions.

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.