Agile Coach

  • Full-time

Company Description

BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts 75 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network. 

Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer long distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and since 2018  a marketplace bus service too. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car. So we want to fill those seats too! 

In 2018, 84 million travellers used BlaBlaCar globally saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one with 87% of members say that carpooling is an enriching experience. 

BlaBlaCar offers a truly and unique international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices in Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 500 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate, and fundamentally mission-driven.

Job Description

Why join us?

BlaBlaCar’s product and engineering teams are growing quickly and we want to take our agile maturity to the next level by providing a growth framework and scale it across the organization. The Agile Coaching team is attached to the Program team, which has one of the highest NPS (Net Promoter Score) at BlaBlaCar, and enjoys the teamwork and support of a group that genuinely likes working together and trusts our coaches to hone our methods. Our agile coaching services are in high-demand and are dedicated to improving the delivery, quality, and happiness of the teams we work with.

What you will contribute to:

  • Agile method discovery: Develop a team of stakeholders in engineering and product to research the most successful agile practices within the organization. Foster discussion and ideation through agile guild discussions.

  • Agile maturity evaluation: Document the approaches and outcomes discovered in an agile maturity rubric that puts our best practices into an organized growth framework.

  • Agile adoption and alignment: Invest time within teams to help them assess their level of maturity and adopt best practices in the framework that will help them to deliver more/better/faster. Where it makes sense, help teams align their agile methods to improve collaboration between engineering and product teams and work with EPMs/Program team on driving company-wide initiatives.

  • Coaching: Work as an agile coaching team with our existing 2 coaches to develop these projects and collaborate on assessment of team maturity. Align with them on execution of our quarterly health check and perform 1-1 coaching with teams to improve the teams’ and individual’s agile process.

  • Communicate quarterly: Each quarter we will compile a summary of our accomplishments and rely on the coaches to communicate our growth and set the course for the upcoming quarter in an agile roadmap.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

  • 3-5 years experience implementing agile business practices in engineering and product teams. Hands-on experience is more valuable than theoretical knowledge for this role.

  • Experience working with KanBan, Scrum, SAFe, scrum @ scale,, and other agile best practices.

  • Remote experience, working with teams when they are not on-site

  • A curious and open-minded mindset to discover what our teams need and how best to connect their methods together.

  • Communication skills that bring people together and inspire cooperation.

  • Change management expertise, ability to influence change at the right pace and in the right way to ensure adoption.

  • Experience working with Jira, Confluence, G-suite a plus.

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role

  • Start: As soon as you are ready!

  • Location: Paris HQ

  • Contract: Permanent contract (CDI)

  • Compensation: Competitive package based on experience 

What we offer all of our employees

  • The opportunity to have a meaningful impact, building a CO2-saving global travel network enabling strong human connections too

  • A strong “Fun & Serious” company culture;

  • An international environment with a team counting 35 nationalities,  serving a global member-base from 8 offices around the world (Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo, Warsaw);

  • State-of-the-art office spaces, in a great location

And some other great perks!

  • Free carpooling to live our value “Be The Member”

  • Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend

  • Possibility to work from another BlaBlaOffice abroad for a week once a year (BlaBlaSwap)

  • Opportunity to attend Tech conferences in France and Europe.

What is next?

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English. 

Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.

You can expect us to review your application within the following 3 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for an HR and technical phone interview, and a round of onsite/remote interviews.

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.