Location: Auckland CBD | Hybrid | Flexi-Hours
At Talent, we don’t just place people into roles-we partner with innovators to build the future. Right now, we’re on the hunt for a Director of Business Agility to join our client, a fast-growing Tech organisation headquartered in Auckland with a global footprint.
This role is critical to shaping how the client works-not just what they do, but how they do it. It’s a rare opportunity to craft and embed enterprise-wide agility at the strategic level, creating real, measurable change across cross-functional teams.
Why This Role Exists
The client already has a strong agile foundation at the team level. But with rapid growth and the need to drive enterprise-wide outcomes, they’re looking to evolve. You’ll bridge the current gap between strategy and delivery, designing and implementing tailored ways of working that drive faster, better, cross-pillar outcomes.
This isn’t about dropping in a playbook or forcing a framework. This is about understanding what makes the business tick-and building an adaptable, high-performance environment around that.
Key Focus Areas
- Design and deliver a strategic, fit-for-purpose enterprise agility strategy-tailored to the client’s people, pace, and goals.
- Collaborate closely with the SLT, Heads of Engineering, Product, and Operations to align agility with business outcomes.
- Drive initiatives to improve work visibility, delivery forecasting, and organisational flow efficiency.
- Introduce structured change management approaches across the business.
- Champion cross-pillar collaboration by embedding lean and agile principles that enhance cross-functional outcomes.
- Embed systems thinking, adaptive governance, and customer-centric delivery practices.
Ways of Working – The Heart of the Role
You’ll be responsible for redefining how the client works, not what methodology to follow. They value:
- Psychological safety & trust-building: Influence through collaboration, not command.
- Agility as a mindset, not a methodology: Frameworks serve the people, not the other way around.
- Real-world strategy: Practical solutions over theoretical perfection.
You’ll live and breathe ways of working-so much so that we’ll say it again: this role is about ways of working. It’s at the core of everything you’ll do.
What Success Looks Like
- Strategic enterprise agility roadmap embedded across pillars
- Enhanced delivery visibility and forecasting for leadership
- Effective change processes that support transformation
- Collaborative, ego-free culture where teams align and adapt with clarity
- Lead, coach, and mentor the Agile Lead Coach and broader coaching team
Cultural Fit – What You’re Made Of
The client’s culture is fast-paced, collaborative, and ego-free. To thrive here, you’ll need to:
- Embrace change and bring others on the journey-not impose it.
- Collaborate without patch protection-you influence across boundaries without owning them.
- Be humble: If you think “this is how Agile must be done,” this probably isn’t the right place.
- Challenge and be challenged– constructively. Diverse thinking is celebrated.
- Lead by example, build trust, and foster psychological safety.
What You Bring
- 6+ years in organisational change, Agile transformation, or business agility roles
- Proven success in embedding new ways of working across a Tech business
- 2+ years in enterprise Agile leadership or coaching, preferably in software environments
- Skilled in systems thinking, change management, lean/agile delivery, and adaptive governance
- An exceptional communicator and influencer-across all levels
- Familiarity with frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe-but not wedded to any
The Perks
- Competitive salary + 15% STI bonus
- 4 wellness days + birthday leave
- $2,000 annual training budget
- $1,000 WFH setup allowance
- Paid health & life insurance
- Hospitality perks
- Summer hours (1pm Friday finish Dec-Feb)
- Paid volunteering leave + mental wellbeing support
Apply Now
If you’re ready to drive meaningful, human-centred change in a high-growth tech business, we want to hear from you.