Home24 AG Careers

Description

Home24 is Europe’s largest online destination for home furniture and decor. Being a dynamic, fast-growing market leader, our goal is to consistently provide our customers with the best service and assortment.

Home24 is currently active in 8 countries in Europe and Latin America. We employ more than 1,000 people worldwide and are looking to expand our team with dedicated top talents and experts who are ready to grow with us. Our dynamic and international team works with great passion and enthusiasm towards a great goal: To revolutionize the Home & Living market.

Therefore we are looking for you from now on as:

Agile Coach (f/m)

We are looking for an enthusiastic coach to help our product teams to create the best experience for our customers and internal stakeholders. Your role as an Agile Coach is to drive continuous improvement for the agile processes and team dynamics, coaching the groups to self-organize and to identify their potentials with their roles. You will facilitate the internal rituals making sure that everything runs smoothly and helping define continuous process improvement. In addition, you will work closely with the Product Owners and Engineer Managers to ensure coordination and communication of teams’ interdependencies, solving communication issues proactively.

Responsibilities

• Help the group to create a positive agile culture and improve their working methods
• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching, deliver trainings, effective meetings and agile practices including Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
• Help teams and individuals to identify potentials with their roles and maintain transparency into the team’s work through relevant metrics and consistent performance indicators
• Work closely together with the Product Owners, Engineer Managers and Lead Developers in managing interactions and cross-team communications
• Coach and propose solutions for the continuous process improvement within the team
• Help identify and mitigate any external dependency risks in feature/product development
• Take care of team dynamics, preventing conflicts and ensuring new members integrate successfully

Requirements

• 2+ years experience as Agile Coach with multiple teams
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, XP or other agile processes
• Experience facilitating teams working within technology
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Deep knowledge of software development life cycle and best practices
• Ability to handle conversations about Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development etc.
• Comfortably switch between roles: motivator - coacher - negotiator - conflict solver
• Startup mindset, act as a product manager or QA when necessary
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills in English, German is a plus

• Chance to make an impact! We need leaders with an aptitude and appetite for challenge, growth and change!
• A highly motivated team of professional Tech people as well as key people across the company to promote a consistent message about our people-value proposition at Home24
• An open-minded and adaptive culture ready for incorporating new and creative ideas and approaches
• A merit-centric environment – A “Zero Politics” workplace
• Access to the Rocket Internet technology network
• A freshly furnished office space showcasing our assortment  
• International colleagues from over 30 different countries
• Relocation support for our international recruits
• Benefits including employee discounts on all of our assortment, team events, free fruit and drinks, German language classes and more!

If you are interested in being a part of an exciting success story, we look forward to hearing from you. Please send us a copy of your resume and relevant credentials (including a copy of your diploma, if available), as well as your expected salary and earliest possible start date.