The Role
Lead and monitor daily Scrum activities, mentor Agile practices, facilitate project planning, remove roadblocks, and communicate with stakeholders to ensure team success.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Onit
We're redefining the future of legal operations through the power of AI. Our cutting-edge platform streamlines enterprise legal management, matter management, spend management and contract lifecycle processes, transforming manual workflows into intelligent, automated solutions.
We’re a team of innovators using AI at the core to help legal departments become faster, smarter, and more strategic. As we continue to grow and expand the capabilities of our new AI-centric platform, we’re looking for bold thinkers and builders who are excited to shape the next chapter of legal tech.
If you're energized by meaningful work, love solving complex problems, and want to help modernize how legal teams operate, we’d love to meet you.
Responsibilities:
- Leading and monitoring the daily Scrum, working closely with the Product Owner while collaborating with the business and the Scrum team.
- This position will be responsible for mentoring Agile practices on the development team; and works closely with subject matter experts to lead project efforts and build solutions for a high-volume, high-availability cloud-based system.
- Organizing and facilitating project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Removing roadblocks/impediments to teams' progress
- Ensuring that the development team's practice and adhere to the core agile principles of collaboration, self-organization, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
- Liaison between technical and non-technical departments.
- Communicating with developers, management, and Stakeholders on development issues and providing guidance for resolution.
- Assisting the team in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and information.
- Assisting with backlog maintenance, prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.
- Advocate for continuous improvement in quality and process.
- Act as change agent to drive continual adoption of Scrum and operational and technical excellence.
- Act as interference shield for team, so that it can remain focused on delivering business value every sprint.
- Support Scrum Teams in US and India.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related field, or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- First level Scrum Master certification (PSM I, CSM)
- PMP certification a plus
- 3+ years of experience in development of highly transactional, business critical applications.
- 3+ years of experience as software Program/Project Manager using Agile techniques and iterative development.
- Ability to manage multiple scrum teams simultaneously.
- Experience of being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
- Proven success in leading and driving complex, time critical software development projects.
- Proven success in removing impediments enabling teams to progress.
- Thorough knowledge of agile software development methodologies, values and procedures.
- Strong working knowledge of software configuration management.
- Strong working knowledge of web application technologies.
- Strong working knowledge of burndown metrics, velocity, user story development and task definition.
- Knowledge of software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Knowledge of a broad spectrum of infrastructure technologies and secure computing environments: network, hardware and operating systems, servers and storage.
- Knowledge of relational databases and web technologies.
- Knowledge of enterprise application integration and messaging technologies.
- Experience with JIRA is a plus.
- Servant Leader Attitude
Benefits & Perks That Support You:
Onit offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support the whole employee at work and beyond:
Health Coverage: Employee and immediate family members.
Time Away: Flexible paid time off and 10 company paid holidays annually.
Family Support: Exceptional paid leave for birth parents, non-birth parents, and caregivers. Onit also offers surrogacy and adoption reimbursement.
Income Protection: 100% employer-paid life and disability insurance.
Additional Coverage Options: Voluntary benefits including hospital indemnity, critical illness, accident, and even pet insurance.
Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Flexi, NPS.
Community Engagement: One paid volunteer day each year to give back to the community.
Our Commitment to Applicants
We know that not everyone will check every box in a job description. At Onit, we value diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply. You may be exactly who we’re looking for.
Onit Values
Customer First - Customer success is our success. We deliver value, listen, and act on customer needs.
Purposeful Innovation - Innovation fuels our growth. We harness creativity to solve problems and lead with the intentions and expertise.
Win as One - Teamwork is how we win. We are accountable, act with integrity, and communicate openly.
Intentional Growth - Our people are the difference. We create an environment with compelling work, impactful contributions, and career growth.
Top Skills
Agile
JIRA
Relational Databases
Scrum
Software Configuration Management
Web Application Technologies
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The Company
What We Do
Onit is a global leader of enterprise software and artificial intelligence platforms and products for legal, compliance, sales, IT, HR and finance departments. Our software transforms best practices into smarter workflows, better processes and operational efficiencies. With a focus on enterprise legal management, matter management, legal spend management, contract lifecycle management and legal holds, we operate worldwide and help global companies and billion-dollar legal departments bridge the gap between systems of record and systems of engagement.
Onit is the only company in our space with two platforms: Our leading no-code business process automation platform, Apptitude, and our business intelligence platform, Precedent. Apptitude allows customers to create, modify and deploy new software products and custom workflows. Onit’s legal AI platform, Precedent, enables our software products to read, write, and reason like a lawyer. Combined, the two platforms enable customers to digitally transform legal operations by automating processes, reducing costs and maximizing productivity with industry-leading cloud-based software.
