Director, Execution Excellence

Lead enterprise execution capabilities across initiatives, products, and programs by establishing governance, standards, coaching, talent development, and continuous improvement practices supporting Agile transformation. Build organizational capability, lead communities of practice, and partner with leaders to improve planning, prioritization, governance, and delivery.

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.
• Prior experience in nonprofit, humanitarian, or mission-driven organizations preferred.
• Ability to clearly articulate hands-on involvement in prior work.

Skills

• SAFe Program Consultant
• SAFe Principles
• Lean-Agile leadership
• Value stream thinking
• Organizational Change Management
• Coaching
• Facilitation
• Stakeholder Management
• Executive Communications
• Governance
• Agility
• Execution discipline
• Agile Culture Transformation
• Talent Development
• Continual Improvement
• Planning
• Prioritization
• Delivery Management

Languages

English