Project Manager IT (Agile Coach)

This is a 12-month contract role based in Marysville, Ohio. You will serve as an Agile Coach, leading and facilitating SAFe transformation across the MSA department and Global Initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted Agile advisor and coach for leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams.
• Promote Agile values, principles, servant leadership, and Lean thinking across the organization.
• Develop Agile maturity through coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and training.
• Guide teams toward self-organization, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Foster psychological safety, trust, transparency, and collaboration.
• Facilitate retrospectives and improvement workshops.
• Help teams identify root causes of recurring challenges and implement sustainable improvements.
• Coach teams on metrics, flow optimization, and delivery predictability.
• Encourage experimentation and learning through Inspect & Adapt practices.
• Support development of high-performing teams and healthy team dynamics.
• Establish and standardize Agile practices across teams.
• Support Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Scrum of Scrums, PI Planning, and Inspect & Adapt Workshops.
• Ensure consistent execution of Agile processes and governance.
• Partner with leaders to identify and remove organizational impediments.
• Support Agile transformation initiatives and cultural change efforts.
• Help establish Agile operating models, roles, and responsibilities.
• Promote alignment between strategy, priorities, and execution.
• Coach leaders on servant leadership and outcome-focused management approaches.
• Improve visibility into work prioritization and delivery flow.
• Support dependency management across teams.
• Guide backlog refinement and value-driven planning.
• Help teams achieve greater predictability through planning and measurement.
• Encourage focus on customer and business outcomes rather than activity completion.

Qualifications

• Required

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related field; equivalent Agile transformation experience may be considered.

• 5+ years applying Agile methodologies in product, project, or delivery environments.

• 3+ years coaching Agile teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, or organizational leaders.

• Experience facilitating workshops and driving organizational change.

• Experience working with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders.

• Deep understanding of Agile Principles, Scrum, Kanban, Lean Thinking, Continuous Improvement, SAFe Framework, Value Stream Thinking, and Servant Leadership.

• Preferred

• SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification.

• SAFe Agilist (SA) certification.

• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) certification.

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification.

• Lean Six Sigma certification.

• Experience in manufacturing, smart factory, or digital transformation environments.