Senior Agile Delivery and Transformation Lead-Executive Director

Harness your technical and strategic expertise to shape innovative client solutions and bridge product capabilities with real-world challenges! As a Senior Agile Delivery and Transformation Lead on the Data & Analytics (D&A) Team, youll drive three key responsibilities: managing a team of Agility Leads (ALs), Agility Lead Managers, Product Agility Leads (PALs), driving multi-product performance improvement efforts, and ensuring robust metrics and governance.

As the Senior Agile Delivery and Transformation Lead, youll foster a culture of innovation and high performance. You will be a critical pillar in our enterprise agility strategy, helping scale best practices across the entire product portfolio, as well as to meet the needs of a complex, product-driven organization. Youll enhance team effectiveness, quality, speed, and overall employee and client experience by reducing barriers and improving practices.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of PALs, ALs and AL Managers on how to effectively uplift and support their products

• Partner with stakeholders and leaders in Product, Technology, Data, Design, and other key areas to ensure alignment of effort

• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence while guiding your team to successfully implement agile practices across the organization

• Enhance delivery processes and productivity through effective collaboration and innovation

• Leverage AI across the product development lifecycle to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

• Capitalize on opportunities and design solutions for holistic and long-term improvements across the portfolio.

• Deliver business outcomes through streamlined product development practices

• Drive the strategic roadmap for the adoption of agile methodologies, ensuring alignment with business objectives

• Utilize your communication and influence skills to remove impediments for the team
• Identify hot-spots using baseline product and agility metrics, collaborate on remediation plans, prevent metric manipulation, and ensure effective governance
• Drive continuous improvement for the portfolio of products to enable faster, higher quality, and smoother delivery

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• 10+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in a relevant domain, with a focus on product development, agile methodologies, and leading cross-functional teams
• Experience managing and developing managers and individual contributors
• Possess advanced knowledge of multiple product development lifecycle stages, methodologies, and best practices, enabling effective guidance and support
• Display advanced knowledge of agile delivery and multiple agile approaches; with the ability to guide teams through complex projects, emphasizing iterative progress and adaptability
• Experience delivering enterprise products at scale and managing product solutions with multiple cross-functional stakeholders
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a focus on team collaboration
• Understanding of regulatory and control landscape and its impact on strategy and delivery
• Extensive product management experience related to a data and analytics function

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Bachelors or advanced degree in a related discipline

• Management consulting skillset (impact orientation, business understanding, program management, executive presence)

• Deep knowledge of data governance and controls