Reporting to the SVP - Operations, the Vice President of Project Management Office (PMO) is an Agile Coach responsible for managing the PMO and guiding the transition of existing work management practices to an embrace of agile practices. The role will analyze the existing work management program and implement improvements designed to support continuous improvement, create efficiencies, and deliver value. The VP PMO Agile Coach will have strategic and operational responsibility for helping to align work efforts with business goals, driving innovation, and accelerating the delivery of the right products to market in a fast and efficient manner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Sets the vision of the Agile PMO, and builds, coaches, and maintains a highly engaged and inclusive team culture. Leads and transforms a team of Project Managers and Scrum Masters.

2. Oversees the performance management, hiring, training, and development of the team. Establishes and drives the adoption of Agile principles and Scrum practices across the organization.

3. Coaches senior leadership on agile practices, ensuring adoption of best practices from the top down. Creates, implements, and refines the work intake and prioritization processes.

4. Cultivates internal stakeholder, partner, and leader relationships to secure and expand partnerships, and execution success. Works with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of products.

5. Utilizes Agile principles to identify, communicate, and resolve issues and roadblocks hindering progress.

6. Champions the use of key performance metrics (KPI) and other objective measures by teams.

7. Develops dashboards and reports that leverage lean metrics to track and report progress.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field; or equivalent mix of education and work experience required.
• Advanced degree preferred.

Licensure:

• Six Sigma, SAFe, Scrum Alliance, PMI-ACP, PMP, or other relevant certifications are strongly preferred.

Experience:

• 10 or more years of progressive experience with 7+ years of experience growing and scaling PMO organizations and 5+ years of experience in Agile practices.
• Previous experience in coaching and mentoring teams on Agile practices required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proven ability to drive teams with differing perspectives and methodologies in a unified direction to improve decision-making and business outcomes.
• Software Knowledge: Strong experience with Jira, Azure DevOps (ADO), Workfront, etc.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• While performing the essential duties of this position, an employee would frequently be required to stand, walk, and sit.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Our company offers a dynamic hybrid work arrangement, which requires three days on-site in the Sugar Land, TX office. Our retail roles are required to be onsite at the branch locations.

Disclaimer:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Texas Dow Employees Credit Union is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis, including race, color, age, protected veteran status, sex, religion, disability, genetic information, national origin or other status protected by federal, state or local law. Consistent with the American Disabilities Act, applicants may request accommodations needed to participate in the application process.