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Event and Community Lead

Job Description

What you will be doing:

  • Able to develop Community Canvas
  • Design and develop community engagement programs both offline and online. 
  • Able to manage our internal team to help conduct the community programs and events (both online and offline
  • Conduct community research to find out business opportunities
  • Research the right person/community/business to be potential partners
  • Negotiate with partner in partnership
  • Conduct assessment to seek collaboration opportunities
  • Responsible to handle and maintain community engagement program
  • Expand networking with journalists
  • Write press release of each event and distribute it to the journalists
  • Design and develop testimonial concepts from event community participants. 
  • Approach the potential partners
  • Do clerical and practical work related to the event e.g proposal, contract, TOR, partnership form, etc.)
  • Design and develop partnership event with universities or campus
  • Increase our existence by attending, collaborating, being speaker in any startup or innovation event
  • Do as an event organizer expert while and after the event.
  • Responsible for gathering testimonials from event participants
  • Responsible for editing testimonials from event participants

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Qualifications

What we expect from you:

  • Excellent public speaking and communication skills in Bahasa and English.
  • Have prior experience as a moderator or master of ceremonies in both Bahasa and English.
  • Experience with community management
  • Capable of event strategic planning and execution
  • Detail-oriented and capable of collaborating with multiple parties (multitasking).
  • Detail oriented and capable working with many parties
  • A bachelor’s degree in marketing, journalism, public relations, communications, sales, or a related field is required.
  • Willing to travel for out-of-town engagements
  • Willing to relocate to Jakarta or establish a base in Jabodetabek.

Senior Agile Coach

Job Description

What you will be doing:

  • Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers.
  • Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
  • Assist the leaders to transform their leadership fit into an agile way of working
  • Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization
  • Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
  • Assessing the Agile Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
  • Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
  • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
  • Facilitating getting the work done without force, assigning, or dictating the work.
  • Facilitating discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution
  • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
  • Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially concerning grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
  • Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.

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Qualifications

What we expect from you:

  • JABODETABEK based.
  • Able to work full-time for our clients.
  • Excellent communication skills in Bahasa Indonesia and the English language.
  • Helping people to bring back common sense and humanity to the workplace.
  • Good to be a graduate, if you have that IT flavor and servant leadership experience even better.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in Agile way of working and Coaching.

Agile Coach / Agile Business Consultant

Job Description

  • Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers
  • Develops strategies, organizes, leads and coaches multiple senior leaders and product management to adopt, sustain and continuously improve delivery performance through Agile/DevOps/product/lean practices, process improvement and problem solving. Evolves the way of working / operating model across the Enterprise for better customer value delivery at a faster pace. Leads targeted improvement efforts in Business Units.
  • Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self organization
  • Guiding the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
  • Assessing the Agile Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
  • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
  • Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
  • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
  • Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
  • Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
 

Qualifications

What we expect from you:

  • 2+ years of experience
  • Fluent in Bahasa is a mandatory
  • Strong leader, educator, and coach
  • An excellent communicator and motivator
  • Experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity
  • Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments
  • Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and Agile Cadence
 
 

Associate Agile Business Coach

Job Description

  • Building good relationships and a safe environment between people of different roles in the team, allowing them to deliver creative initiatives together where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
  • Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching
  • Facilitating Agile team integration in Sprint Evaluation, Retrospective and other planning
  • Coach senior management in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices from top-down
  • Effectively communicate agile principles, scrum practices and overall operating model across the organization
  • Actively expand transformative consulting skills and professional development through training courses, mentoring, and daily interaction with clients.
 

Qualifications

  • Min. 3+ years of experience
  • Fluent in Bahasa is a mandatory
  • Strong leader, educator, and coach
  • An excellent communicator and motivator
  • Experience running agile projects of varying size and complexity
  • Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments
 
 

Innovation Leader

Job Description

What you will be doing:

  • Position Ekipa’s innovation services vis-a-vis our agile service offering. Specifically:
    – Further develop Ekipa’s innovation program offering
    – Initiate and organize accelerators and competitions with our customers
    – Find opportunities for corporate venture building (develop our partnership with the right partners
  • Develop opportunities in the market, find customers and projects
  • Further develop our community (Agile Circle) to drive our innovation offering
  • Initiate and lead innovation programs at the big Indonesian enterprises, from A to Z, together with your customers
  • Lead a team of Ekipa coaches to grow the innovation muscle of customer teams
  • Continually use your leadership skills to find gaps and have more impact on our customers
  • Coach innovation leaders 1on1 (or as a team)

Qualifications

What we expect from you:

  • 10 years working experience
  • Extensive experience in leadership roles and can think BOD-level
  • Able to place yourself in the shoes of the leaders you’re helping
  • Experience with agile, innovation, and entrepreneurship
  • You’ve got a commercial attitude, driving the marketing funnel up till closing deals
  • Innovation is your nature: you know how to organize programs that lead to new products and services in enterprises
  • You are able to build a team of innovation coaches to service customers (attracting recruits and forming strong team).
  • Servant leadership, coaching is your habit both internal and with customers
  • Structured, methodical approach to the programs you run
  • You’re strong at the big picture, visionary and strategic thinking
  • Openness, direct in your feedback, not afraid to address the elephants in the room
  • Fluent in English (ideally also fluent in Bahasa Indonesia)
 

Junior Digital Marketing

What You Gain:
  • Freedom to work from any place
  • Freedom to do work you like and how you think it should be done (while you show outcomes and behave responsibly)
  • Get paid for your passion
  • Being part of a fast-growing startup with direct ownership from day one
 
Job Description
    • Running & Improving Digital Ads
    • Set up Ads properly/well structured (Google Ads & FB/IG Ads)
    • Daily checkup Ads performance
    • Weekly update Ads performance
    • Create plan on how to improve the Ads
    • Copywriting improvement
    • Creative material improvement (coordinating with our content creator)
    • Web performance improvement (coordinating with our web developer)
    • Helping in Managing CRM
    • Making sure leads form are well set up
    • Running email marketing
    • Updating contact info of the leads to the email marketing audience
    • Digital Marketing metrics collecting and analysis (especially Ads and email performance)
    • Make sure the leads conversion from marketing effort is well tracked
Qualifications
  • Strong knowledge and experience in Digital Marketing (Google Ads, FB/IG Ads, Google Analytics, Social Media, Events & Community, Email Marketing)
  • Good understanding in Digital Marketing metrics & tools
  • Basic skill of Spreadsheet operation and formulation
  • Basic skill of CRM
  • Basic skill of WordPress (preferable)
  • 2 years experience in Digital Marketing (preferable)
  • Eagerness to keep improving together (doesn’t wait for orders)
 

Senior Agile Coach

Job Description

What you will be doing:

  • Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers.
  • Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
  • Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization
  • Guiding the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
  • Assessing the Agile Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
  • Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
  • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
  • Facilitating getting the work done without force, assigning, or dictating the work.
  • Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
  • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
  • Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
  • Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.

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Qualifications

What we expect from you:

  • Excellent communication skills in Bahasa Indonesia and English Language
  • Helping people to bring back common sense and humanity to the workplace
  • Good to be a graduate, if you have that IT flavor and servant leadership experience even better.
  • Minimum 3 years experience in Agile way of working and Coaching

Business Development Support

Job Description

What you will be doing:

  • Communicating with clients and gathering information about a project’s scope, budgets and timelines
  • Growing the business by acquiring and establishing relationship with potential client and transform into business deal
  • Scheduling meetings / appointments according to established procedures & making reminder calls to prospective customers.
  • Manage the pipeline data
  • Nurturing the client leads

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Qualifications

What we expect from you:

  • Experience in Business Development and Lead Generation
  • IT sales/ Software product & Software services sales experience is mandatory
  • Strong networking and relationship building ability — you are a connector at your core
  • Growth mindset – excited to learn and improve. You enjoy going out of your comfort zone, you are constantly looking at new opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your work and how things are done.
  • Comfortable with data and reports to draw key insights, and use data to create and execute a plan
  • Establish network of relationships with key decision makers in small/medium & large sized companies and ability to leverage these relationships for generating new business globally

Transformation Lead

Job Description

What you will be doing

  • Lead a team of Ekipa coaches to grow the agile maturity of customer teams 
  • Co-create and implement enterprise transformation roadmaps
  • Continually use your leadership skills to find gaps and have more impact on our customers
  • Help the Ekipa team to grow (coaching coworkers) and increase impact on our customers
  • Provide coaching and training at all levels in an emerging Agile environment and proven ability to perform in various agile roles where needed. 
  • Familiar with execution within agile software delivery frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc.) especially for the automation of business processes, improvements, or redesigns

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Qualifications

What we expect from you:

  • At least 10 years working experience

  • You’ve got extensive experience in leadership roles and can think BOD-level

  • You’re able to place yourself in the shoes of the leaders you’re helping

  • Experience with agile, innovation, and entrepreneurship

  • Servant leadership, coaching is your habit both internal and with customers

  • Structured, methodical approach to the programs you run

  • You’re strong at the big picture, visionary and strategic thinking

  • Openness, direct in your feedback, not afraid to address the elephants in the room

  • Fluent in English (ideally also fluent in Bahasa Indonesia)

 

Business/Market Research Internship

Job Description

What you will be doing

Market Research Interns handle information and data gathering on current market trends and movement.
These firms analyze the data and create reports to help companies assess their next moves to capture their target market.

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Qualifications

What we expect from you:

  • Candidate must at least a final year student from economic background from reputable University
  • Interest in management consulting, consumer-focused, export – import, or B2C & B2B industry.

  • Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and conceptual thinking skill

  • High degree of initiative, accuracy and meticulous attention to detail

  • Have a strong affinity for critical thinking, hands-on execution, problem solving, and result-orientation

     
     
 

Admin & Finance Internship

Job Description

What you will be doing:

  • Supporting in finance document filing, such as monthly budget and cost reports, and draw out actionable insights from financial data
  • Support finance improvement project

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Qualifications

What we expect from you:

  • Bachelor degree or final year student from Finance/Accounting/Economics or other quantitative majors)
  • Microsoft Excel analytical skill (number and visualization)
  • Have strong interest in finance & eagerness to learn
  • Organized, agile, attentive to details, and have a positive can-do attitude
  • Fluent in English both written and oral

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What You Gain
  • Valuable skillsets in finance and big data technology
  • Being part of a fast-growing startup with direct ownership from day one
 

Ekipa DNA

Entrepreneurship

We get stuff done. We keep the ball rolling.
Never stop.

Openness

Speak your mind. Share your suggestions. Be curious, not judgmental, be empathetic.

Ekipa DNA

Be Your Own Boss

Nobody, but you tells you what to do. We self-decide what stuff to work on. If you need help, ask for it.

Keep Learning

There is no teacher. There's only you to decide what to learn. Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Ekipa DNA

Openness

Speak your mind. Share your suggestions. Be curious, not judgmental, be empathetic.

Be Your Own Boss

Nobody, but you tells you what to do. We self-decide what stuff to work on. If you need help, ask for it.

Entrepreneurship

We get stuff done. We keep the ball rolling.
Never stop.

Keep Learning

There is no teacher. There's only you to decide what to learn. Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Culture and Values at Ekipa

Ekipa is a 100% self-managed organization without any hierarchy. 

Everybody is an owner and everybody shares in our success and income. Everybody works on the things he wants to contribute and we don’t have fixed job descriptions. We co-work with our customers to help them bring entrepreneurship, innovation, and agility to their organization.

Together, we create the company we want Ekipa to be and we create better lives for ourselves and the people we serve. We’re co-workers.

Ekipa Reinvented

People

  • People are systematically considered to be good (reliable, self-motivated, trustworthy, intelligent).
  • We’re all creative, thoughtful, trustworthy adults, capable of making important decisions.
  • We’re all accountable and responsible for our decisions and actions. Integrity: our word is our bond.
  • People are fallible, we make mistakes.
  • We want to use our talents and skills to make a positive contribution to the organization and the world. 
  • We bring positivity, play, joy, and appreciation to our workplace.

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Trust

  • We relate to one another with an assumption of positive intent.
  • Until we are proven wrong, trusting coworkers is our default means of engagement.
  • Freedom and accountability are two sides of the same coin.

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Information and Decision Making

  • All business information is open to all.
  • Every one of us is able to handle difficult and sensitive news.
  • We believe in the power of collective intelligence. Nobody is as smart as everybody. Therefore all decisions will be made with the “advice process”.

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Responsibility and Accountability

  • We each have full responsibility for the organization. If we sense that something needs to happen, we have a duty to address it. It’s not acceptable to limit our concern to the remit of roles.
  • Everyone must be comfortable with holding others accountable to their commitments through feedback and respectful confrontation.
  • We are a profit-making company. As we all share in the profits, we all have a responsibility to find the right balance between ‘putting money in our own pockets’ and ‘making a profit for the company’. 

Growth and Learning

  • Every problem is an invitation to learn and grow. 
  • Failure is always a possibility if we strive for our purpose. We discuss our failures openly and learn from them. Hiding or neglecting to learn from failure is unacceptable.
  • Feedback and respectful confrontation are gifts we share to help one another grow. 
  • We focus on strengths more than weaknesses, on opportunities more than on problems. 

All power is with the team. There is no formal hierarchy, we abandon the traditional system. There are no bosses to turn to. Teams decide what they focus on, how they achieve outcomes and how they solve problems. 

Roles are fluid. We have no job descriptions. Every co-worker is free to create, modify or  remove roles. If you think something adds value to your team’s purpose, you own it and move it forward. Once a week, we organize an overall team retrospective. During this event, the teams discuss the current roles and propose additions, improvements, modifications.

Decisions are made based on the ‘advice process’. If you recognize a decision has to be made, you own that decision. We assume you can make most of the decisions by yourself. If you need the help of other co-workers, ask them for advice, make your decision and move on.

The Advice Process

There are a number of steps in the advice process:

  • Someone notices a problem or opportunity and takes the initiative, or alerts someone better placed to do so.
  • Prior to a proposal, the decision-maker may seek input to sound out perspectives before proposing action. 
  • The initiator makes a proposal and seeks advice from those affected or those with expertise. 
  • Taking this advice into account, the decision-maker decides on an action and informs those who have given advice.

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The Team Decision Process

If the decision maker can’t reach a decision on his own to resolve important issues, a team meeting is organized with the following process:

  1. Team appoints facilitator 
  2. Agenda and topics selected based on current issues
  3. Proposals for resolution are shared
  4. Review, improve and refine proposals
  5. Group makes a decision. Not consensus. Accepted is solution without anyone having a principled objection

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Guidelines

  • The facilitator can’t make any statement suggestions or decision. 
  • You can’t veto a solution just because you think another (or your own) solution is better. 
  • The solution can be revisited at any point if new information is available. 
  • If the team gets stuck, you can ask for an external facilitator

We organize work in teams and chapters. Teams work for a specific customer. Chapters work for an internal purpose, to grow Ekipa.  At the beginning of each quarter, we set the top 2-5 objectives as a company (what do we want to accomplish as a company in the next 90 days). From the company objectives, we decide what chapters we need. Each chapter creates their own OKR’s (Objectives Key results). 

Each new team member has a ‘peer coach’. The coach helps the new co-worker to develop a personal development plan as well as a 90 day plan to get ‘onboarded’. The Personal development plan is filled and focuses on the things the co-worker needs to develop and learn. The peer coach will establish a meeting rhythm with the co-worker to follow up on both plans. 

To execute work, team(s) and chapters hold regular alignment meetings. All meetings are Mandatory; it’s beneficial for team alignment. The coaching teams on the client side will have their own meeting cadence. We have found scrum to work well. In scrum, we have the following meetings:

  • Sprint planning: typically monday morning to decide what will be done during the week. Each team member creates or ‘takes’ tickets (from a Trello board). 
  • Daily meeting: every day, we do a 5-15 minute skype call to align on 3 questions: what have you done yesterday, what are you working on today, do you have any ‘stucks’?
  • Demo: typically on friday afternoon; team members share what they have accomplished during the week
  • Retrospective: after the demo, people share what they believe went well or could be improved in the teamwork, process.
  • It’s impossible to change other people. We can only change ourselves. 
  • We take ownership for our thoughts, beliefs, words and actions.
  • We don’t spread rumors. We don’t talk behind someone’s back. 
  • We resolve disagreement one-on-one and don’t drag other people into the problem.
  • We don’t blame others. When we feel like blaming, we take it as an invitation to reflect on how we might be part of the problem (and the solution). 

If two co-workers have a conflict, there is nobody but yourselves to resolve the conflict. To reach a resolution, the following conflict resolution process is followed:

  1. the two co-workers sit together, discuss the conflict and try to find a resolution.
  2. if that doesn’t work, you seek advice from 1 trusted colleague
  3. if that doesn’t work, they elect a panel to help resolve it
  4. the CEO is asked to resolve it

In all cases, you are expected to keep the information to yourselves and not seek others to be on your side. Nobody should spread the information. 

If you find it hard to open up to someone you have a conflict with, use the following three topics in your conversation with the person:

  1. Here is how I feel…
  2. Here is what I need…
  3. What do you need?

We are a commercial company; our goal is to make profit. Teams are 100% responsible for generating profit. All financial information is open and accessible to everyone. Teams make informed decisions based on the financial information available. 

At the end of each year, 10 % of the profits will be shared with the team(s). Teams decide themselves how to distribute the profit between themselves. 

Our salaries and other compensations are based on the Ekipa salary system. In all situations where you need to spend company money, you do so with caution; frugality and savings are crucial to our company. 

When coaching customers, we adhere to strong Agile principles. Our mission is to move customers to a new way of working, not to stick with what they’ve been doing before. That sometimes creates friction and that’s ok. When you need to push, push. Use the following principles to decide when to push:

  1. Ekipa changes how organisations work, think and act.  We don’t solve your problems with waterfall projects running behind schedule (we teach and coach agile, this will help with your delivery medium and long term, not short term)
  2. Always think more about products and less about projects.  Even better, #noprojects! As long as there are projects, shuffling of team members and deadlines, you are not bringing the optimal benefits of Agile.
  3. Move at the right speed If clients are in a hurry and want you to go faster, tell them the risks! If they move to slow, try to push the right buttons to make them move faster.
  4. Use consistent terminology When clients want to set up Tribes in IT, tell them to stop and instead set up tribes across the business. Teams are functional groups of people. Squads are cross-departmental teams. Tribes are collections of squads. 
  5. Always create actual value when coaching When teaching teams, use their real work, not dummy work. Our ultimate goal is to bring business value; that means more happy clients (of our client), more profit, more impact in the market. Coaching teams is a means to that end. Always keep your eyes on the ultimate value you must bring. 
  6. Agile coaches should do (sprint) plans (etc) too! Create, update and communicate your coaching plans to the customer.
  7. Agile = dedicated, cross-functional teams only. If stuck in silos, keep pushing to move towards cross functional, stable teams. 
  8. Clients must master Agile at the team level before they try to scale!
  9. Reject coaching under/overloads If clients want you to go from 2 squads to 5, reject them and tell them to hire more coaches. If you are underutilized, ask for more. 

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