Sr. Agile Coach (Contractor)

Introduction to Demandbase: 

Demandbase is the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands. We help B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. How? By aligning their sales and marketing teams around a combination of their data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what we call Account Intelligence — so they can identify, engage, and focus their time and money on the accounts most likely to buy. 

As a company, we’re as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class technology. We invest heavily in people, our culture, and the community around us. We have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and India, as well as a team in the UK, and allow employees to work remotely. We have also been continuously recognized as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area including, “Best Workplaces for Millennials” and “Best Workplaces for Parents”!

We're committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce. By ensuring that every Demandbase employee is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we're increasingly capable of living out our mission to transform how B2B goes to market. We encourage people from historically underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at Demandbase!

About the role:

Demandbase is looking for a senior-level Agile Coach contractor. Demandbase is growing as is the number of Scrum teams. We’re on a journey towards “Self Managed” Scrum teams (without having an external dedicated Scrum Master). This will allow current TPMs (currently playing the Scrum Master role) to take the ownership of Annual/Quarterly planning, ensuring we are on track to meet our OKRs and run cross functional programs. You’ll be providing agile coaching to TPMs, Engineering & Product teams and help achieve engineering productivity/predictability OKRs. You will coach teams on various aspects of the Agile development and delivery process, leveraging Scrum, lean, Kanban, SAFe, and DevOps principles and practices, with practical guidance. 

We’re looking for a full-time remote contractor to start as soon as possible. The predicted length of this engagement is up to 12 months and reports to the VP of Program Management.

What you’ll be doing:

• Enable the adoption and optimization of Agile principles and methodologies (Identify, evaluate and recommend process & tool improvement opportunities across the engineering and product management efforts and guide in implementation initiatives)
• Coach and mentor ScrumMasters, Product Owners, Agile teams, Technical Program Managers and management to enhance release planning, agile ceremonies, continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
• Assess the agile maturity of the organization and advice how individual teams can increase their agile maturity levels.
• Advises on key Iteration (Product Increment, Sprints, etc.) practices, on how to effectively and pragmatically teach teams how to break work into small features and user Story backlogs and groom for the next product increment or sprint
• Guide Release Train Engineers (RTEs), TPMs on cadence and synchronization at the Program and Team Level to improve effectiveness of progress towards the iteration or increment goals
• Transferring knowledge and helping teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles and increasing the outcome, collaboration, and quality practices
• Demonstrates and shares experiences and observations with all team members to ensure best practices are being used and recommends process improvement
• Able to write new methodologies and development practices and will help to implement those
• Regularly collect feedback from the development team and improve current processes and practices
• Facilitate agile education workshops for group agile adoptions or other education needs in alignment with our customer’s best practices
• Encourage and promote established engineering practices like unit testing, pair programming, test-driven development, and continuous integration

What we’re looking for:

• Experiencing implementing SAFE, Scrum, Kanban, Lean principles
• 10+ years’ experience leading large projects, transformation efforts, process improvements, product implementations, systems development and integration efforts
• Must have experience in scaling agile at an enterprise level
• Ability to coach and mentor the team to reach their potential
• Demonstrates initiative by anticipating risks, issues and opportunities, and escalating them accordingly
• Enabling programs/portfolio success by applying agile practices­ & providing hands on coaching & support
• Must have experience managing projects on a large scale with several teams / stakeholders.
• Must be able to present a detailed assessment of how challenges are identified in agile teams with supporting data and propose coaching improvements/action plans during the interview phase.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Demandbase

At Demandbase, we believe in creating a workplace culture that values and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We recognize that everyone brings unique experiences, perspectives, and identities to the table, and we are committed to building a community where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. Discrimination of any kind is not tolerated, and we strive to ensure that every individual has an equal opportunity to succeed and grow, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity, background, marital status, genetic information, education level, veteran status, national origin, or any other protected status. We do not automatically disqualify applicants with criminal records and will consider each applicant on a case-by-case basis.

We also understand that women often face unique challenges pursuing careers in tech, and we believe that diversity drives innovation and growth. That's why we encourage talented women to apply for roles at Demandbase, even if they don't have all of the required skills listed in the job description. 

We acknowledge that true diversity and inclusion require ongoing effort, and we are committed to doing the work required to make our workplace a safe and equitable space for all. Join us in building a community where we can learn from each other, celebrate our differences, and work together.