Product Coach - Job ID: 1468CA

Are you passionate about helping teams navigate the complexities of product management?

Do you have experience within agile practices and team transformation?

If so, now is your chance to join Ascendis Pharma as our new Product Coach.

Ascendis Pharma is a dynamic, fast-growing global biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Europe, and the United States. Today, we're advancing programs in Endocrinology Rare Disease and Oncology.

Here at Ascendis, we pride ourselves on exceptional science, visionary leadership, and skilled and passionate colleagues.

Guided by our core values of Patients, Science, and Passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs.

Our culture fosters a place where skilled, adaptable, and highly resourceful professionals can truly make their mark. We offer a dynamic workplace for employees to grow and develop their skills.

We are seeking a passionate Product Coach to join our growing team. As a key member of the Ascendis Pharma team, you will play a crucial role in facilitating the teams in Global IT to perform at their highest potential.

You will join Global IT in Ascendis Pharma and be part of the Product Coach Competency Team. In Global IT, we have been gradually maturing our product-driven organization for the past two years. We do not follow a specific agile framework or model but conduct experiments to discover what works in our company and regulated industry.

In Ascendis Pharma we are a cloud-first, SaaS, zero legacy system environment. Our product teams operate in an end-to-end delivery fashion and serve specific functional areas. We do not build software ourselves but rely on industry-specific vendors.

You will have excellent development opportunities in a flexible environment where “the way we do things” is open for discussion.

This is a hybrid position which can be based out of either office in Palo Alto, CA OR Princeton, NJ

Key Responsibilities:

• Maneuver teams towards high performance
• Support team alignment and meaningful rhythms to ensure collaboration and foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning
• Provide guidance and support in areas like product discovery and strategy, roadmap planning, and prioritization
• Conduct workshops and training sessions on product management methodologies, tools, and best practices
• Help and coach teams on 'ways of working' to ensure a balance between speed, quality, and customer value
• Implement and maintain effective feedback loops to gather insights from customers, team members, and stakeholders
• Guide and coach on team composition
• Collaborate with people leaders and functional leaders to remove impediments in the team, unclogging the team’s flow where necessary
• Contribute to the Product Coach Competency Team and the continuous development and improvement of our product-driven operating model
• Salary range: $170-180K/year

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Product Coach, Agile Coach or Scrum Master where you maneuvered teams towards high performance.
• Experiences in different types of frameworks like Scrum, Lean, DevOps, Kanban.
• Understanding of related fields like Beyond Budgeting, Teal and Design Thinking.
• Capabilities in working with organizational behavior, psychological safety and change management.
• Must have pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience.
• This is a combination player/coach role and requires someone who is willing to be hands on.
• Travel: 25% Travel

Key competencies:

• You are a strong team player with a can-do attitude who loves to take responsibility.

• You possess an agile and entrepreneurial mindset and can thrive in an informal, open environment where innovation and change are key. You think on your feet and keep your composure when things move quickly.

• To succeed in this role, we also expect you to possess the ability of making frictionless shifts between the different teams’ problems and complexity you are supporting. At daily level. In other words, we are looking for someone who possess a high capacity, a well-developed sense of pragmatism and the ability to quickly analyze how to help teams in the right direction.

A note to recruiters:

We do not allow external search party solicitation.  Presentation of candidates without written permission from the Ascendis Pharma Inc Human Resources team (specifically from: Talent Acquisition Partner or Human Resources Director) is not allowed.  If this occurs your ownership of these candidates will not be acknowledged.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid maternity leave
• Paid paternity leave
• Commuter benefits
• Disability insurance