Product & Agile Coach

The Walt Disney Company
San Francisco, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 199K

Job location

San Francisco, United States of America

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
JIRA
Continuous Delivery
Scrum
Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Smartsheet
Enterprise Software Applications
Atlassian Tools
Interactive Whiteboards
Devsecops
Airtable

Job description

As a part of the Product & Agile Coach, you will play a hands-on coaching and change leadership role in guiding teams through the transition from a project-based delivery model to a product-centric delivery model. You will work directly with product teams and leaders to help them adopt new mindsets, methods, and behaviors required to operate successfully in a product model.

This role focuses on coaching teams where they are, apply product principles in real delivery scenarios, and build confidence in new ways of working. You will be a visible change agent, supporting teams as they experiment, learn, and steadily mature their product practices. This role is ideal for someone who is a strong team coach and has experienced the project to product delivery model transformation.

You will partner closely with Product Managers, Agile Coaches, Engineering leaders, and Enterprise Architecture to reinforce aligned ways of working, remove friction, and accelerate adoption of the Product Operating Model across Enterprise Technology and Data.

What You'll Do:

  • Provide hands-on coaching to teams as they move from project delivery to persistent product teams
  • Support teams in applying product thinking, outcome-based planning, and continuous delivery improvement practices
  • Guide teams in adopting new planning, funding, prioritization, and delivery methods aligned to the Product Operating Model
  • Reinforce practical application of product practices such as roadmapping, OKRs, backlog management, dependency management, and value measurement
  • Help teams navigate common transition challenges and trade-offs
  • Act as a trusted change leader
  • Support the adoption of product, agile, and DevSecOps standards and templates throughout the delivery lifecycle
  • Support the definition of Product Operating Model (POM) standards, including frameworks, governance structures, and best practices across the product lifecycle
  • Translate product operating model principles into actionable processes and tool configurations (e.g., Jira workflows, intake processes, prioritization frameworks)
  • Develop and facilitate hands on training workshops for product and agile principles
  • Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and inconsistencies in current product practices and recommend improvements to enhance speed and product quality
  • Monitor adoption and effectiveness of standards through defined metrics, continuously iterating based on feedback and performance
  • Act as a steward of consistency across the product organization, ensuring scalable and repeatable ways of working
  • Stay current with industry trends and best practices in product management and agile methodologies, continuously seeking opportunities for improvement and innovation.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of experience in Product Management, Product Operations, Business Analysis, or Agile Delivery within a large enterprise environment
  • Strong understanding of Product Operating Models and product lifecycle management concepts
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly lead large scale workshops
  • Strong understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and frameworks (e.g., SAFe),
  • Hands-on experience with product and agile tools (e.g., Jira, Miro, Airtable, Smartsheet)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex processes into structured, scalable solutions
  • Experience working in cross-functional environments, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Business teams
  • Detail-oriented with a focus on quality, consistency, and continuous improvement
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively, * Relevant industry Agile and Product Management qualifications (e.g. AIPMM Certified Product Manager, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC))
  • Experience with driving large scale organization change by embedding new mindsets, ways of working, and operating models.

Required Education:

Bachelor's degree with 7 years of related work experience required.

Benefits & conditions

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $148,300 - $198,800 per year and in Burbank, CA is $155,700 - $208,700 per year and in Seattle, WA is $163,100 - $218,700. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About the company

At Disney, we're storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt's passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world-a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences - and we're constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences. The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence., At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company's powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you'll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe., The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished. This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

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