Agile Coach

As a candidate, I’m excited about the opportunity to step into an Agile Coach role where I can help teams deliver complex work with clarity, alignment, and continuous improvement. In this position, I’ll partner across Product Management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Delivery Leads, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to strengthen Agile execution and drive successful outcomes for large-scale initiatives.

Job Title: Agile Coach

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Pay Range: $80-$85/hr

What's the Job?

• Serve as a servant leader and chief coordinator for Agile delivery, supporting planning, execution, and continuous improvement across large-scale initiatives.
• Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning and Agile Release Train ceremonies, ensuring teams are aligned and dependencies are managed effectively.
• Translate business, regulatory, and technology requirements into clear user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria to support accurate development and testing.
• Lead end-to-end delivery execution across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including dependency management, milestone tracking, and resolution of impediments.
• Support governance and compliance by ensuring adherence to change management, risk, and control frameworks, including required forums and audit-ready documentation.

What's Needed?

• Strong experience serving as a Release Train Engineer, Senior Scrum Master, Agile Program Manager, or Delivery Lead in a large-scale Agile environment.
• Deep understanding of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and SAFe methodologies, including experience facilitating PI Planning and Agile Release Train ceremonies.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional dependencies across multiple teams and maintain strong stakeholder management and executive communication.
• Experience identifying, tracking, and resolving program-level risks and impediments, using delivery metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Proficiency with Agile management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, or similar platforms.

What's in it for me?

• The opportunity to coach and enable teams to improve delivery flow, collaboration, and Agile best practices.
• A role focused on transparency - tracking delivery health, agile metrics, risks, and dependencies for senior stakeholders.
• Experience strengthening alignment between business priorities and execution teams in a complex, multi-team environment.
• Exposure to program and project governance processes and enterprise technology controls in a regulated setting.
• The chance to own and maintain platform documentation, including process flows, control documentation, training materials, and user-facing artifacts.

Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Health Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• 401(k), Plus Match
• Weekly Pay

If this is a role that interests you and you'd like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.

ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells – creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.

ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.