Technical Dojo Coach

Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Union
Posted on: November 23, 2022

Job Description:

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.A digital-first world means that skills are constantly evolving, so it is crucial to the firm that teams are equipped to develop emergent products. That's where the Dojo Coach (aka Sr. Agile Coach) comes in.

The Dojo Coach is responsible for upskilling teams in strategic areas of the firm by employing an immersive, "learn by doing" approach.

Leveraging their empirical experience and strong expertise, the Dojo Coach will evaluate a team's operational, product and technical health to take a hands-on approach to addressing growth opportunities. The Dojo Coach will also facilitate all dojo workshops and training.

Additionally, the Dojo Coach will partner with leadership across the firm to ensure that environment and strategy support teams' growth and development.

Role & Key Responsibilities

Embody a hands-on teaching approach to equip Product teams with Agile, product, DevOps, and software development skills that support strategic outcomes

Champion continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation

Exemplify empathy, humility, and active listening

Help expand and iterate on the enterprise strategy for the Dojo including vision, mission, value proposition, KPIs, and operating model

Foster relationships across the firm to identify opportunities for Dojo coaching

Ensure Product Teams can demonstrate their learning based on the educational goals as part of the Dojo coaching engagement

Communicate the outcome of the Dojo coaching, as well as coaching observations to the Product Team and the team's leader chain (up to senior leadership)

Collaborate with Embedded Portfolio Coaches and Enterprise Coaches to align Dojo coaching to strategic outcomes

Participate in thought leadership within spaces such as Agile, product, DevOps, and software development to continuously grow skills in order to better support Product Teams Requirements

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