Agility and Performance Coach – R&D Accelerator
Hybrid · Paris, Île-de-France, France
Job Summary
Lead Coach in the R&D Digital Accelerator to embed Lean, flow, and continuous improvement habits across product teams and leadership. Coach one or more R&D product teams to strengthen Agile practices and discovery, contribute to shared coaching standards, and partner with business stakeholders to build genuine ownership and evidence-based decisions. Drive delivery discipline with small, releasable increments, and use Gemba-first observations to inform interventions. Collaborate with the coaching crew to balance people development, delivery, and transformation, while navigating regulatory and data integrity considerations in regulated scientific environments.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years in Agile, Lean, and/or product environments — coaching teams in the work, not above it
- Demonstrated flow metrics and DORA metrics practice as daily steering tools — not reporting
- Continuous delivery coaching: batch size reduction, faster feedback loops, quality built in
- Lean as lived practice: VSM, A3, PDCA in real engagements
- Product ownership coaching as a core competency
- Proven experience coaching at the business/stakeholder interface
- Strong facilitation and mentoring capability
- Fluent English required
- French is a genuine advantage
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