[Hiring] Agile Lead @Tide

About Tide

At Tide, we’re on a mission to save businesses time and money. We’re the leading provider of UK SME business accounts and one of the fastest-growing FinTechs in the UK. Using the latest tech, we design solutions with SMEs in mind and our member-driven financial platform is  transforming the business banking market. Not only do we offer our members business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly connected admin tools for businesses. 

Tide is about doing what you love. We’re looking for someone to join us on our exciting scale up journey and be a part of something special. We are wanting passionate Tideans to drive innovation and help build a best-in-class platform to support our members. You will be comfortable in ambiguous situations and will be able to navigate the evolving FinTech environment. Imagine shaping how millions of Tide members discover and engage with business banking platforms and building this on a global scale. 

What we’re looking for:

As an Agile Lead, you will be a seasoned Agile professional with excellent verbal and written communication skills, along with proven conflict management and relationship-building ability. You will have a proactive personality and will thrive on autonomy as well as you will bring a good working knowledge of Agile tools and techniques.

As part of this team, you will be driving and facilitating improvements within our Product Engineering community. Using Agile methodology and practices, you will shape the way we deliver products and leverage technology at Tide. You will be working with 2 small delivery teams and support them in their ways of working.

As an Agile Lead you’ll be:

• Using an agile mindset to facilitate Agile principles and practices in Sprint iterations across several delivery teams
• Facilitating and guide Product Owners in User Story Mapping, backlog creation (Epic Level) and User Story generation
• Working with Product VPs in order to help them set product strategy and make it transparent to the teams
• Working daily with Tech leadership to ensure delivery and quality
• Providing team level reporting against OKRs, identifying and escalating delivery risks
• Helping remove impediments and reduce work in progress
• Conducting analysis on team performance and coach on increasing productivity (e.g. burndown, velocity, burn-up, cycle time, lead time charts and cumulative flow diagrams).
• Helping creating new processes and monitor quality of practices and behaviours across delivery teams

What makes you a great fit:

• You have experience as a Scrum Master /Agile Lead or Agile Coach ideally in a start-up or scale-up
• You manage to coach Product community effectively
• You have knowledge and experience using Agile principles beyond Scrum and Kanban e.g. in Product (Lean Start-up methods, Design Sprints, Lean UX) and in Tech (Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD, DevOps)
• You are an experienced JIRA and Confluence user 

What you’ll get in return:

• 25 days paid annual leave 
• 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
• Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company
• Personal L&D budget in the amount of 1000 BGN per year
• Additional health & dental insurance
• Mental wellbeing platform 
• Fully covered Multisports card
• Food vouchers
• Snacks, light food, drinks in the office
• WFH equipment allowance
• Flexible working from home
• Sabbatical Leave
• Share options

Tidean Ways of Working 

At Tide, we’re Member First and Data Driven, but above all, we’re One Team. Our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy allows you to work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. We are remote first, but when you do want to meet new people, collaborate with your team or simply hang out with your colleagues, our offices are always available and equipped to the highest standard. We offer flexible working hours and trust our employees to do their work well, at times that suit them and their team.

Tide is a place for everyone

At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. We believe it’s what makes us awesome at solving problems! We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.

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