Director, Agile Delivery

Job Description:

Title:               Director, Agile Delivery

Location:        Remote – USA, Canada

Reports to:     SVP, Engineering

The Role:  

As the Director of Agile Delivery, you will own the entire Scrum Master function — building the team, raising the bar on agile excellence, and embedding AI into the way teams plan, build, and ship. Reporting directly to the SVP of Engineering, you'll have a seat at the table where strategy meets execution.

The Impact You Will Have in This Role: 

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who wants to shape how an engineering organization delivers at scale.

Your first priority will be assessing the current Scrum Master roster and strategically positioning them to support and accelerate our highest-growth product areas. You'll match the right coaching talent to the teams that need it most, ensuring our investment in agile leadership directly fuels the products driving the business forward. From there, you'll scale the function, deepen agile maturity across Engineering, and pioneer the use of AI tooling to give every team a competitive edge in how they work.

What You’ll Be Doing in This Role:

People Leadership

• Recruit, onboard, and retain a high-performing team of Scrum Masters across multiple product areas.
• Coach and develop direct reports through 1:1s, performance reviews, and defined growth plans.
• Define career ladders and competency frameworks for the Scrum Master discipline.

Agile Practice

• Own and evolve Engineering's agile standards, playbooks, and ceremonies.
• Establish metrics for team health, velocity predictability, and delivery throughput.
• Lead retrospective systems that produce organizational learning, not just team-level insights.

AI Integration

• Drive adoption of AI tools across Engineering's agile workflows — backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospective analysis, and dependency tracking.
• Evaluate and pilot AI-powered tooling; establish standards and guardrails for responsible use.
• Build AI fluency across the Scrum Master team.

Impediment Removal & Change

• Identify and resolve systemic blockers across teams and value streams.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and technical leaders to address structural impediments.

Stakeholder Communication

• Advise Engineering leadership on agile readiness, team capacity, and delivery risk.
• Represent the Scrum Master community in Engineering forums and quarterly planning.

Qualifications of this Role:

• 5+ years as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach, with 3+ years in a people management role.
• Experience leading teams of 10 or more Scrum Masters.
• Deep expertise in Scrum, Kanban, and at least one scaled framework – e.g. SAFe.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills

This position has a starting salary range of $180K - $210K USD / $150K - $180K CAD per year. This is the range we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for the role at the time of posting. An employee’s pay within the range is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, education, qualifications, experience, performance, business or organizational needs, and geographic location.

Our Values
We POWER Our Customer’s Success

We are Innovative, Collaborative and Grounded and in Data

We Make Things Easy

We Get It Done

We Start with Trust & Prove it Everyday

JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. 

Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to tarecruitment@jdpa.com.

JD Power does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, JD Power has international sites and JD Power uses resources located throughout the world. JD Power may from time to time also use third parties to act on JD Power’s behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within JD Power group of companies as well as to third parties acting on JD Power’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided JD Power with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America. If you are a California or United Kingdom resident, additional disclosures about the information we collect and how we use that information can be found by clicking here. 

To all recruitment agencies: JD Power does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.  

Company Mission

Our mission in the market we serve is clear. To power every auto-related decision through proprietary data, advanced analytics, deep industry expertise, and seamless workflows that connect insight to action.

Our Values

We POWER Our Customer's Success

We are Innovative, Collaborative and Grounded in Data

We Make Things Easy

We Get It Done

We Start with Trust & Prove it Everyday

JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. 

Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to tarecruitment@jdpa.com. 

JD Power does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, JD Power has international sites and JD Power uses resources located throughout the world. JD Power may from time to time also use third parties to act on JD Power’s behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within JD Power group of companies as well as to third parties acting on JD Power’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided JD Power with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America. If you are a California or United Kingdom resident, additional disclosures about the information we collect and how we use that information can be found by clicking here.

To all recruitment agencies: JD Power does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.