Agile Team Coach

ChemAxon is an open and friendly market-driven scientific software company, providing software solutions for customers primarily from the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, including many of the global Top500 companies.

Location: Budapest, Graphisoft Park. Our office will move to Váci Greens office park at the beginning of 2022.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for creating an environment where the team naturally delivers high-quality results.
• Drives the team to reduce idea-to-delivery/execution time.
• Provides assistance and support to develop new skills and stretching boundaries.
• Gives support to the team to strengthen end-to-end ownership of development or service
• Drives processes to include customer/user value, usability, feasibility and business value validation.
• Creates a safe environment for healthy conflict and meaningful collaboration.
• Promotes a results-oriented mindset.
• Tracks and supports removing impediments.
• Acts as a change agent.
• Acts as a catalyst for continuous improvement culture.
• Bridges between the team and the organization in terms of operational alignment.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years experience as an Agile Team Coach in software development or IT organization.
• Has a deep understanding of agile and lean values, principles, and practices, especially in the given method the team uses (Scrum, Kanban, Dual-Track Agile, etc.)
• Active listener and uses effective questioning techniques.
• Uses direct and non-violent communication that reflects partnering relationships.
• Able to intervene when an individual or team behavior does not serve the benefit/goal of the team or organization.
• Knowledgeable about facilitation and mediation techniques and uses them in practice.
• Uses the appropriate approach (coaching / mentoring / teaching / facilitation / telling) according to the situation, context, and team maturity.
• Able to motivate and inspire people.

Characteristics:

• Flexible: willing to change or compromise, think about problems and tasks in creative ways, even in case of stressors or unexpected events.
• Takes initiative: able to act first, start an action, including coming up with a proposal, experiments with new ideas.

We offer:

• Competitive salary in an innovative company
• To be a part of a creative and progressive team
• Pleasant and homely atmosphere: leisure and recreation area, playing corner for children, training packages
• Everyday use of English in a multicultural environment
• Continuous learning opportunities

Covid info

Although we are a great believer that colocation supports collaboration and the flow of knowledge, we mostly work from home at the moment. The office - with all the necessary safety regulations & equipment - is still opened for those who prefer to work there.

For some info on ChemAxon, you can check two videos:

• a shorter one about who we are (~1.5 min)
• another one with some history and about what we do (~5m)

How to apply? If you are interested please send your CV by clicking the "Apply now" button below.