The Role
Guides Scrum teams in Agile practices, facilitates Scrum ceremonies, manages backlog refinement, removes impediments, and supports Product Owners. Coordinates stakeholders, project leadership, and finance meetings while tracking project costs against budgets, forecasts, and contracts. Helps improve team performance and Agile maturity through coaching and process improvement.
Summary Generated by Built In
City: Culver City, CA
Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Hybrid (3-4 days a week onsite) - No Flex in this
Duration: About 7 Months (End date: 3/31/2027)
Rate Range: Upto $77/hr on W2
Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except H1B, OPT, CPT
Must Have:
- This is not a IT Scrum Master role - Must have Finance Transformation Experience
- 4+ years of project management or product/project development experience in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Hands-on experience functioning as a Scrum Master or in a similar project management role
- Experience facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and backlog refinement
- Intermediate JIRA experience
- Experience managing project schedules, working sessions, stakeholder follow-ups, dependencies, and action items
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders in a corporate project environment
- Bachelor’s degree
Responsibilities:
- Guide and support the project team in Agile and Scrum practices.
- Facilitate Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and future planning sessions.
- Schedule and coordinate project working sessions.
- Follow up with stakeholders and project team members to ensure deliverables and action items are completed on time.
- Partner with Product Owners to maintain and prioritize the backlog.
- Identify and help remove project impediments.
- Track project schedules and keep teams on task against project timelines.
- Support Sprint Reviews and Finance Steering Committee meetings.
- Monitor and analyze project costs against budgets, forecasts, and contracts.
- Work with internal Agile/Scrum resources as needed.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 4+ years of Agile/Scrum project experience required.
- The target background is approximately 5-10 years of project management/Scrum experience, but candidates outside this range can be considered.
- Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum concepts and practices.
- Intermediate working knowledge of JIRA.
- Experience facilitating meetings across multiple levels of an organization.
- Knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.
- Intermediate Microsoft Office skills.
Nice to Have:
- Finance transformation, accounting, ERP, or finance-related project experience.
- Basic familiarity with finance/accounting terminology or systems such as SAP.
- Scrum or Agile certification. Certification is not required.
- Entertainment/media industry experience. Industry experience is not required.
- JIRA administration experience.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of product or project development experience in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Strong hands-on Scrum experience
- Experience facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives
- Intermediate JIRA experience
- Experience with backlog refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, and Scrum techniques
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum frameworks
- Experience facilitating meetings across different organizational levels
- Knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Intermediate Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- JIRA administration experience
- Advanced facilitation and Agile coaching experience
- Experience supporting financial project tracking, budgets, forecasts, and contracts
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The Company
What We Do
Often, the biggest barrier between setting business objectives and achieving them is talent. Finding technically qualified people when you need them is hard enough. Finding technically qualified people who are the best fit for your organization is tougher. You need a staffing partner with the right expertise who can find the right talent in the right time frame, because your project can’t wait. That’s where we come in. aKube Inc is committed to leveraging its corporate values and operating model to achieve the highest level of performance and respect within the industry. We have developed a highly efficient delivery model for supporting a wide array of clients with expertise in supporting high-volume contingent worker programs.
