Associate Principal Engineer - Scrum Master

Company Description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled, team-oriented individual to be an Agile Scrum Master for high performance, cross-functional teams of experts. The successful candidate will be an energizing servant leader, possess strong inter-personal communication and facilitation skills, be detail-oriented, thorough and results-focused.

Responsibilities:

• Organize and conduct all Scrum meetings.
• Partner with Product Management to meet project objectives and achieve maximum project ROI.
• Manage sprint planning and execution which includes the management of project progress and provide status & visibility.
• Facilitate in release planning and scheduling by providing empirical Scrum team statistics, identifying project dependencies, and creating velocity forecasts.
• Own the identification and management of cross-team dependencies.
• Able to do post-mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.
• Manage multiple teams with tight deadlines and dependencies.
• Ensure high throughput of development teams by identifying potential issues and roadblocks and working on preventing or eliminating them.
• Predict Sprint Impediments and plan a mitigation in advance.
• Work with Product Management, Business Analyst, Architects, and UI designers to plan ahead and ensure product backlog is prioritized, groomed, and has sufficient detail, so that it is ready to be worked on by Scrum teams to avoid any downtime, ambiguity or rework.

Qualifications

Must have Skills: Scrum Master, Risk management (Expert), Jira.

• Strong background in agile project management.
• Expert in Agile Scrum framework and must have worked in cross functional global collaborative team environment.
• Drive to build self-organized development teams and facilitate issue resolution within the team.
• Project management experience + Strong communication and presentation skills + Stakeholder management experience.
• Strong risk management. Technical background & willing to participate in discussions.