Job Description:
About us:
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).
About the Role
Dow Jones is looking for an experienced Transformational Agile Leader to lead our Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) transformation. You will lead this important multi-year transformation across the Enterprise (B2B and B2C) reporting directly to the Head of PMO.
You will be an impactful position to influence and collaborate across the C-suite and their departments, ensuring a seamless integration of Agile Practice throughout the organization. You will work with cross-functional teams to establish and integrate Agile methodologies, design and oversee team training, ensure execution and enterprise adoption while encouraging an outcomes focused culture. With your understanding of Agile principles and the SAFe framework, you will provide strategic guidance and mentoring to teams, allowing them to improve their processes and deliver value to our customers.
Your knowledge of the SAFe Agile framework is combined with your practical experience in complex program execution and delivery to accelerate our transformation.
Director, Agile Transformation
NYC or Princeton, NJ
You Will:
- Lead the Agile Transformation program starting with an evaluation of the current state of
- Agile to develop the transformation roadmap
- Roll-out role specific Agile training and provide coaching on SAFe agile
- principles, practices, and frameworks
- Define metrics (KPIs) to measure and communicate the success of our SAFe agile
- transformation and adoption
- Bring the relevant processes, modes of thinking, and practices to increase agility and the associated value delivered to customers
- Partner with the Dow Jones Enterprise Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) on establishing best practices for sustain SAFe adherence
- Communicate the value and benefits of Agile methodologies and transformation, and technical concepts, to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Communicate the business need, urgency, and vision for change
- Provide new methods and practices that connect the entire enterprise with the principles that allow Business Agility
- Allow collaborative environment that furthers the organizational ability to problem-solve, learn and retain top talent
- Lead quarterly PI planning sessions
- Assess and evolve launch and backlog readiness
- Present/support preparation of program updates for key stakeholder and executive-level meetings (e.g C-suite meetings)
You Have:
- 8+ years with scaled agile framework
- 10+ years Project Management Experience
- SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) Certification
- Enterprise Agile Coaching (ICP-ENT) Certification
- Undergraduate degree required; MBA preferred
- Demonstrated experience managing and delivering large-scale business change or continuous improvement programs preferably in large, matrixed organizations
- Experience with change management techniques
- Committed to learning and staying up-to-date with the latest Agile trends and Practice
- Operate at strategic level to drive Agile adoption with a willingness to dive into details of
- execution to ensure delivery
- Ability to compete and excel in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and new opportunities with innovative, digitally-enabled business solutions
- Experienced in relevant collaboration tools and applications such as G-Suite, Atlassian
- products, Miro, Figma, LucidChart, etc
Our Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plans
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
- Education Benefits
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Family Care Benefits
- Commuter Transit Program
- Subscription Discounts
- Employee Referral Program
Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy – All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put “Reasonable Accommodation” in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.
Business Area: DJ – EXPERIENCE
Job Category: Software Product Engineering
Union Status:
Non-Union role
Pay Range: $100,000 – $250,000
We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate’s experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.
For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including “elective” benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..
Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.
This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.
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Req ID: 38395