Location: Remote, United States

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Program Management Office

At Wisk, we're transforming the future of urban mobility through safe, all- electric, autonomous flight. We are a passionate team working together toward a sustainable future, solving high-impact problems that have never been solved before. By delivering everyday flight for everyone, we're making it possible to spend less time getting there and more time being there. If you want to be part of shaping the future of mobility, then read on!

The agile coach will be a member of the program management office and use agile methodologies and framework to improve on the delivery of products across Wisk while maintaining a balance with a traditional waterfall approach.

You will analyze the organization's existing infrastructure and implement improvements to help streamline processes and create efficiencies across the program. This position will play a key and influential role in the long-term program management execution strategy across the organization as the operating and reporting requirements evolve through the life of the program.

Objectives

• Work with project teams to analyze current systems and processes and design a strategy for the adoption of agile best practices that supports programmatic requirements for operating and reporting cadence
• Guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met
• Lead agile workshops/training for technical teams, IPT leads (POs) and leadership
• Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them
• Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices

Responsibilities

• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching
• Coach senior management in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices from top-down
• Effectively communicate agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across the organization
• Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams
• Undertake daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are being met

Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Coach
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)
• Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments
• Experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity
• Strong leader, educator, and coach
• An excellent communicator and motivator
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Familiarity with hardware development lifecycles
• Experience implementing agile with non-traditional agile teams and functions

Preferred Qualifications

• Scrum Coach certification
• Scrum Master certification
• Aviation/Aerospace experience

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We are located in Mountain View just a couple of hundred feet from Shoreline Lake and its surrounding walking/jogging trails. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance (company pays 100% of employee premium), alternative work schedule (9/80), flexible time off, 10 company holidays, a 401(k) plan with 50% company matching (no vesting period), commuter assistance, and education assistance. And on top of all that, we also offer a variety of perks such as flight lessons, wellness subsidies, employee referral bonus, charitable giving match, IP bonus program, happy hours and many more.

Wisk Aero provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Wisk Aero abides by applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Wisk Aero is an E-Verify employer.