Agile Practitioner

Are you our “TYPE”?_ Brands constantly seek to achieve deeper appeal and connection with their target audience and customers. They express themselves in unique ways, in ways that are meaningful, attractive and compelling to their audience. Fonts play a key role in this and are central to every brand’s visual identity and expression. Headquartered in the Boston area of the United States and offices across four continents, Monotype is one of the world’s leading font companies. It’s a trusted partner to the world’s top brands and was named "One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design'' by Fast Company, Monotype brings brands to life through type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman and more. Monotype also provides a first-of-its-kind service that makes fonts more accessible for creative professionals to discover, license, and use in our increasingly digital world. We work with the biggest global brands, and with individual creatives, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences. Want to learn more about who we are and how you can become part of our team? Visit us at Monotype Solutions India is a strategic center of excellence for Monotype and is a certified Great Place to Work®. It is based in NOIDA, Sector 125 (Delhi/NCR). The focus of this fast-growing center spans Market Research, Research in areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Product Management, Product Development, Product Marketing, Revenue Marketing, Customer Success and Enterprise Business Solutions. What you will be doing: Monotype is looking for a high-energy Agile practitioner who can help our teams harness the power of Agile practices, to deliver the next generation of solutions for the global market. You will be key to helping us accelerate and develop well-functioning Agile teams by facilitating daily Scrums, backlog refinement, identification of risks and ensuring teams are communicating with each other and enabled to autonomously own their commitments & constant improvement. The individual in this role will be focussed on driving top line and bottom-line business success by helping drive: 1. Organizational commitment & urgency 2. Greater operational rigor This person will: - have a very customer centric mindset. - participate in establishing a roadmap for the Agile transformation along with the sponsors and driving its implementation across multiple teams (called squads, in the Spotify model which we use). - facilitate estimation and planning, daily progress, customer reviews, demos and retrospective sessions with teams. - coach and facilitate continuous improvement efforts by the squads, by implementing take away from retrospectives and implementing concrete solutions to make the squads more efficient and improve delivery success. - conduct sessions with teams around Agile overview, processes, and practices, writing user stories, estimation, backlog refinement, as required. The approach should be creative, innovative, and effective to ensure concepts are understood by the team. - provide insights into areas for improvements with a focus on outcomes and with the objective of establishing a culture of autonomous management as well as self-improvement in individuals and squads. - be involved in multiple projects throughout the company and should be flexible enough to do this successfully. What we are looking for: - 5+ years of related project management experience with Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Agile background - Demonstrated ability to develop a good understanding of the team dynamics and build high performing teams Thrive in an environment of constantly changing projects with tight deadlines. - Experience within iterative and adaptive software environment - Strong collaboration, coaching, facilitation and problem-solving skills - Exceptional communication skills - Passion for impeccable quality and customer success - Expert at Agile process tools like JIRA & Aha - Frequently Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization. - Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments. - Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving. - Advise and coach the Product Owner on the scrum framework, getting items to ‘ready’, user story best practices, writing good acceptance criteria. - Ask thoughtful questions to help our customers, product owners, and product managers to maximize ROI and meet company objectives. Understand product strategy and benefits of key deliverables in the area of responsibility. - Leverage skills in project management to manage projects - Plan and track the team's progress regularly to ensur