Director, Execution Excellence

Lead enterprise execution capabilities across initiatives, products, and programs by establishing governance, standards, coaching, talent development, and continuous improvement practices. Champion Lean-Agile principles and build organizational capability to improve planning, prioritization, governance, and delivery of work.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Release Train Engineers (RTEs), Scrum Masters, and other execution-focused professionals, including performance management, coaching, succession planning, and capability development.
• Lead and sustain enterprise Agile transformation efforts utilizing SAFe principles and practices, partnering with business and technology leaders to advance organizational agility and execution maturity.
• Establish, implement, and continuously improve execution governance, standards, operating rhythms, metrics, and best practices across Agile, traditional, and hybrid delivery environments.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders, teams, and stakeholders, promoting effective execution practices, organizational agility, continuous improvement, and value delivery.
• Build, lead, and mature Communities of Practice that develop execution capabilities, promote knowledge sharing, and drive consistency across execution disciplines.
• Foster a delivery-agnostic approach to execution by helping teams and leaders apply Agile, predictive, hybrid, or flow-based practices as appropriate to achieve business outcomes.
• Partner with senior leaders to identify organizational impediments, improve execution effectiveness, increase transparency into risks and dependencies, and continuously enhance delivery performance across supported portfolios.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience.
• Current SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certification required.
• Up to 15% domestic travel required.
• Deep expertise in SAFe principles, Lean-Agile leadership, value stream thinking, and organizational change management.
• Strong coaching, facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to balance governance, agility, and execution discipline.
• Delivery-agnostic mindset, experience working in transformation environments from waterfall to agile required.
• Ability to work on a team.

Skills

• SAFe Program Consultant
• SAFe Principles
• Agile Leadership
• Value stream thinking
• Organizational Change Management
• Coaching
• Facilitation
• Stakeholder Management
• Executive Communications
• Governance
• Agility
• Execution discipline
• Transformation Management
• Waterfall to agile transition
• Talent Development
• Continual Improvement
• Enterprise execution
• Planning and prioritization

Languages

English