Agile Delivery Lead

About the role

At YETI, we believe that time spent outdoors matters more than ever and our gear can make that time extraordinary. When you work here, you'll have the opportunity to create exceptional, meaningful work and problem solve with innovative team members by your side. Together, you'll help our customers get the high-quality gear they need to make the most of their adventures. We are BUILT FOR THE WILD™.

About the Role

YETI is seeking a Agile Delivery Lead Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery across complex product, technology, and business initiatives. This role serves as a servant leader for Agile teams while supporting execution excellence, predictable delivery, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement. The Delivery Lead partners closely with Engineering Leaders, Business Stakeholders, and PMO leadership to deliver high-quality solutions.

This is an individual-contributor role for an experienced Agile delivery practitioner who can operate independently, manage multiple concurrent initiatives, and bring strong Jira expertise to team execution, reporting, governance, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

Agile Delivery Leadership

• Lead multiple Agile Scrum teams to deliver technology and business initiatives on time and within scope.
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement, and Release Planning.
• Ensure Agile principles, frameworks, and best practices are consistently followed.
• Drive continuous improvement through team coaching, metrics analysis, and process optimization.
• Remove impediments and proactively manage risks, dependencies, and blockers.

Program & Delivery Management

• Manage and track end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams, vendors, business units, and technology groups.
• Establish delivery plans and monitor progress against milestones and commitments.
• Prepare reporting on delivery status, risks, issues, and key performance indicators for leadership and key stakeholders.
• Support quarterly and annual planning activities.

Jira Administration & Reporting

• Serve as a Jira power user for Agile delivery management.
• Create and maintain Jira dashboards, boards, workflows, filters, and reporting structures.
• Drive data quality and adherence to Agile governance standards within Jira.
• Monitor sprint health, velocity, throughput, cycle time, and other delivery metrics.
• Generate actionable insights from Jira data to improve predictability and team performance.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships across business and technology teams.
• Facilitate decision-making and drive alignment among stakeholders.
• Communicate delivery progress, key achievements, risks, and dependencies to leadership.
• Partner with business stakeholders to ensure backlog readiness and prioritization alignment.

Team Coaching & Leadership

• Coach team members and stakeholders on Agile practices.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous learning.
• Provide guidance and share best practices with others performing Delivery Lead responsibilities and Agile practitioners.
• Promote high-performing team behaviors and servant leadership principles.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering preferred, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Agile delivery, program management, project management, or Scrum Master roles.
• 3+ years serving as a Scrum Master supporting software development teams.
• Advanced Jira experience, including dashboard creation, reporting, workflow management, filters, and Agile boards.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and Lean principles.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional initiatives in enterprise environments.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to identify and mitigate risks, dependencies, impediments, and delivery challenges.
• Experience working with distributed and global teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or SAFe Scrum Master certification.
• SAFe Agilist (SA) certification.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Experience supporting digital transformation, cloud migration, ERP, PLM, or enterprise application initiatives.
• Experience with Confluence, Power BI, and portfolio management tools.
• Knowledge of Agile metrics, flow metrics, and value-stream management practices.

Key Skills

• Agile leadership and servant leadership across multiple teams.
• Delivery planning, execution, dependency management, and risk management.
• Advanced Jira administration, dashboards, reporting, workflow management, and data quality.
• Executive communication and stakeholder alignment.
• Facilitation, coaching, conflict resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to operate independently across large, complex, strategically important initiatives.
• Ability to improve delivery practices and Agile maturity across supported teams.

Benefits & Perks

• Click here to learn about the benefits and perks we offer at YETI.
• YETI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Our commitment to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture is at the center of everything we do for our employees.
• We embrace all applicants looking to bring their authentic selves to YETI and contribute to our mission of keeping the wild WILD.
• Find out more about our commitment to DE&I at yeti.com/esg.html.