First Factory is looking for an Agile Program Specialist to join our team.This position will have a passion for agility with excitement to level up their skills to help our organization adopt agile working methods. You will facilitate the learning and growth of cross-functional teams in developing an Agile/Scrum mindset, continuously improving practices in their context, and guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream.As a servant leader, the Agile Program Specialist plays a key role in planning, facilitating, and supporting teams, removing impediments, and providing team coaching and mentorship. You must have a passion to continuously learn new practices and techniques that improve the organizational Scrum implementation**Key Responsibilities**:- Guide the scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint- Coach development teams to higher scrum maturity- Assist in facilitating meetings with the team for idea generation, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives,problem-solving, and alignment- Encourage a continuous improvement culture, constantly discovering better ways of working, through transparency, collaboration, and retrospectives- Participate in agile transformation and implementation-related operational tasks- Assist and mentor Product Owners/Managers in crafting epics and stories- Maintains and reports team performance metrics; communicates projects' transformation progress via weekly updates to management, highlighting successes, risks, areas of improvement, and suggested resolutions- Participate as a thought leader in Agile and contribute to workshops, documentation, training materials, and authoring any similar literature that furthers our mission- Foster a positive relationship between lines of business and resources supporting Agile Transformation; Evangelize the need for top-down support for agile culture and values to achieve maximum results from the use of agile practices- Actively participate and contribute to an Agile Community of Practice- Knowledge of Agile and Lean principles and practices- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, and backlog refinement)- Strong communication (both verbal and written), interpersonal and mentoring skills- Prior experience leading through influence- Ability to work with and lead a team- Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); Experience developing/managing digital capabilities preferred- Experience working with multiple teams is desired- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability- Outstanding organizational skills- Eager to learn
