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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Agile Coach - **Company:** Slalom, LLC - **Location:** Boston, MA, United States - **Salary:** $111,000.0 - $154,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Capability Maturity Model, Scrum Methodology, Interactive Whiteboards - **Published:** September 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/59522051-agile-coach ## About the Role * 6+ years of experience across Agile coaching, product management, product ownership, Scrum Master, delivery leadership, or similar roles, including at least 1 year working directly with clients * Experience actively coaching Agile and/or product teams, not simply participating on an Agile team * Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and Lean, with familiarity with scaled approaches such as SAFe * Experience coaching Product Owners and Product Managers in areas such as discovery, prioritization, backlog management, roadmapping, customer value, and outcome definition An understanding of modern Product Operating Models, value streams, portfolio management, and product management practices * Strong facilitation skills and the ability to lead productive conversations with everyone from delivery teams to senior leaders * Practical knowledge of AI and Generative AI, including an understanding of how these technologies can be applied throughout the Product Development Lifecycle * The curiosity and judgment to help clients explore AI opportunities and determine the best solution for their specific needs rather than simply chasing the newest technology The ability to quickly understand complex environments, bring structure to ambiguity, and adapt your approach as circumstances change * Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills A coaching mindset that values principles over process, outcomes over outputs, and pragmatism over rigid adherence to frameworks The willingness and ability to regularly work alongside our clients in person and commute to client locations in the Boston area It's a Plus If You Bring: Relevant certifications such as CSM, CSP, SAFe Agilist, Product Owner/Product Management, or ICAgile are helpful, but they aren't what will define success in this role. We'd also value experience coaching across multiple teams or at the program, portfolio, or enterprise level; working across multiple industries; supporting Product Operating Model or Agile transformations; or working with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Miro, Confluence, portfolio management platforms, and modern AI tools. Most importantly, we're looking for someone who enjoys being with clients and teams, asks great questions, isn't afraid to challenge established ways of working, and gets energy from helping people improve. If you're excited about the intersection of product, Agile, coaching, and AI and want to help organizations turn those ideas into better ways of working and better outcomes, we'd love to talk. ## Description * We're looking for an experienced Agile & Product Coach to join our Modern Product Organization capability. This is a hands-on consulting role for someone who loves working directly with teams, Product Owners, Product Managers, and leaders to solve real delivery challenges, strengthen product thinking, and create better ways of working. * We're especially interested in people who can bring together Agile coaching, product thinking, and AI fluency. You don't need to have every answer, but you should be curious about emerging AI capabilities, comfortable exploring them with clients, and able to help teams determine where AI can genuinely improve how they discover, plan, build, test, and deliver products. * This is a hybrid role with regular client-site expectations in the Boston area. Being present with our clients matters. You should be comfortable commuting to Boston and working alongside client teams in person based on engagement needs. What You'll Do: No two client engagements are exactly alike, and that's part of what makes this role interesting. Depending on the client and challenge, you may: * Coach teams where the work happens. Partner with Product Owners, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, engineers, and cross-functional teams to strengthen planning, prioritization, discovery, backlog management, delivery, retrospectives, and continuous improvement. * Help teams become more product-minded. Shift conversations from outputs and features toward customer needs, measurable outcomes, experimentation, learning, and business value. * Improve Agile ways of working. Help teams apply Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, and other approaches pragmatically to improve flow, quality, predictability, collaboration, and delivery. * Bring AI into the product lifecycle. Help clients understand where AI can make a meaningful difference across discovery, requirements, planning, development, testing, documentation, measurement, and decision-making. * Help clients navigate AI choices. Explore available tools and approaches, facilitate experimentation, and help clients identify solutions that make sense for their people, processes, technology environment, and business goals. * Facilitate meaningful conversations. Design and lead workshops, team launches, planning sessions, retrospectives, value-stream exercises, product sessions, and leadership discussions that move teams forward. * Understand what's getting in the way. Assess product and Agile maturity, organizational structures, roles, processes, tools, dependencies, and delivery performance and translate what you learn into practical recommendations. * Shape better operating models. Help clients establish clear roles and responsibilities, team structures, governance, decision rights, planning rhythms, metrics, and ways of working. * Coach leaders as well as teams. Help leaders remove organizational barriers, improve decision-making, reinforce new behaviors, and create environments where empowered teams can succeed. * Make improvement measurable. Help clients establish meaningful measures of flow, quality, predictability, customer value, team effectiveness, and business outcomes. * Make the change stick. Build playbooks, training, coaching materials, and practical tools while developing client capabilities so improvements continue after the engagement ends. * Help build our Modern Product community. 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