Toyota Connected has an exciting opportunity for a Scrum Master to join our expanding team. You will be a true servant leader to a team of highly skilled development professionals. Your primary role will be helping to build high performing and self-sustaining teams while growing a healthy, collaborative, and continuously improving engineering culture. 

You should have experience in team building, business agility, lean product delivery, and have at least 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master on a team with proven and demonstrable results in that role. You should be able to talk in detail about agility, the Scrum Framework, and product delivery in an empirical environment, and be able to present on ad hoc topics as requested.

Responsibilities:

• Help grow a collaborative and continuously improving engineering culture
• Teach and serve as example to the team of Scrum and agile values and principals
• Coach and give feedback to individuals (including senior leadership) and teams
• As a Scrum Master, facilitate Scrum Events when requested by the team
• Deliver effective conflict resolution between individuals and teams
• Be an assertive but friendly and communicative person with first class interpersonal skills
• Have experience in estimation and planning techniques and be able to explain and teach release planning in an empirical environment
• Advocate for modern agile software development and organizational practices, such as XP, CI/CD, Devops, TDD, etc. 
• Have excellent visualization skills and be able to explain and create visual radiators
• Help individuals, teams, and programs to clarify goals and actions to achieve them
• Deliver effective methods and practices for managing and resolving impediments
• Coach and support others in effective techniques for backlog creation, management, and refinement
• Demonstrate effective techniques for managing team interruptions, and for protecting the team in a sprint
• Work beyond team boundaries to improve efficiencies, flow of work, and value delivered. 
• Be able to explain the differences between various Scrum Scaling frameworks and approaches
• Provide support to teams that contribute to a larger product suite. Facilitate planning with teams as they contribute to larger area planning, and facilitate decision making with Product Owners and Principal Architects
• Create and maintain team happiness, and demonstrate effective techniques for building happy teams
• Demonstrated deep system level thinking and proven ability to impact cross-team dynamics
• Be a genuine self-starter needing no prompting to get going, and be able to observe and then take action to improve the team delivery

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master on a team
• Proven track record at facilitating, coaching, and mentoring teams and leaders towards rapidly delivering high impact, high quality software in a sustainable fashion
• Experience in helping teams build and develop trust, safety, and effective communication
• Experience in multiple agile approaches (Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, Lean, etc), and have the ability and flexibility to adapt approach to fit team and product environment
• Excellent visualization skills, and be able to explain and create visual radiators, roadmaps, and other communication to senior leadership
• Experience with full software development life cycle and advocating for modern agile software development and organizational practices
• Committed to the development of all team members and continuous development of capability within the department
• Committed to continuous learning and able to demonstrate a pattern of personal development in agility
• Not afraid to raise issues and inspire change while being comfortable dealing with situations of conflict, ambiguity, and uncertainty
• Demonstrates advanced problem-solving
• Exhibits integrity and high standards in work quality 
• Displays care, empathy, and understanding towards team members including valuing diversity and differences amongst individuals 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Added Bonus if you have:

• Experience working with API Services
• Technical experience developing software and/or business experience
• Relevant practitioner level certifications (PSMII/CSP)
• Experience with product management/ownership

What’s in it for you?

In addition to an excellent compensation and benefits package, you’ll also receive:

• A Career Path that allows you to take your career to the next level.
• Annual $2,500 Training Budget to help you grow and develop your professional skills.
• Unlimited time off and flexibility for a great work-life balance. At TC you'll be treated like the professional we know you are and left to manage your own time and workload.
• Hybrid work schedule to allow for a blend of in office and remote work 
• Home office stipend of $1,000 to help furnish an ergonomic remote office.
• Four months of paid parental leave. We want new moms and dads to have an opportunity to bond with their new little bundles of joy.
• Adoption Assistance of $5,000 for regular adoptions or $6,000 for special needs. We know adoption costs can add up, and we want to help.
• 401(k) with generous company match that is fully vested day one.
• Toyota and Lexus vehicle discounts to allow you to drive in style.
• Generous vehicle allowance for new and leased Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Scratch that vehicle payment off your monthly bills!
• Annual Patent-a-thons and Hackathons to embrace your superior creative thinking ability.
• Annual fitness reimbursement to help you balance your overall health without breaking the bank. We also have a Toyota Connected fit club that loves plank competitions!
• Free catered lunches when working onsite. We try to keep it healthy, but Fridays are “cheat” days, so you can get your carbs on!
• Two fully stocked Nespresso bars for your coffee and tea fixes.
• No dress code! Come as you are. We know the smart people we hire don’t need to be told what to wear.
• Free covered garage parking to shield your vehicle from those sneaky storms and to protect your buns from the Texas sun.

Who Are We?

Toyota Connected is a new company created to infuse the power of big data and cloud intelligence into all aspects of the mobility experience so that driving a Toyota or Lexus is more personal, intuitive, and safe. We create and enable technologies that delight, simplify, and connect the lives of those who use our products. We believe this mobility revolution will empower our customers to use their vehicles in an array of exciting new ways. We support, celebrate, and thrive on the opportunity to provide Mobility for All.
Making a connected life a more human experience takes humans from all walks of life. Toyota Connected celebrates and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces you regardless of your race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, skin color, age, disability, military or veteran status, big shot relative, or Instagram fame. Different makes us awesome.