As a Scrum Master you will be a delivery leader responsible for enabling effective execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement within a value stream or domain-aligned team. This role partners closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and IT Portfolio Management to help teams deliver value predictably and sustainably.
Reporting to the Manager of IT Portfolio Operations, the Scrum Master focuses on how work gets done — facilitating team effectiveness, improving flow, surfacing impediments, and fostering a culture of accountability, learning, and transparency. This role goes beyond facilitating ceremonies to actively coach teams and stakeholders in agile and lean practices that fit the complexity of our environment.
Ready to get in the driver’s seat? Join us!
What you’ll do
Team Delivery Enablement
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and team-level planning activities in a way that drives clarity, alignment, and outcomes.
- Help teams plan, sequence, and execute work effectively while balancing quality, predictability, and flow.
- Coach teams on backlog readiness, estimation, and commitment practices.
- Support teams in managing dependencies, risks, and impediments, escalating as needed through appropriate channels.
- Encourage ownership, accountability, and collaboration within the team.
Flow, Visibility & Metrics
- Promote transparency into delivery progress, risks, and dependencies using agreed tooling and practices (e.g., Azure DevOps).
- Help teams understand and use delivery metrics (e.g., flow, predictability, throughput) to inform continuous improvement.
- Ensure work items are well-maintained and accurately represented to support portfolio-level visibility.
- Partner with IT Portfolio Managers to provide reliable insights into team delivery status and capacity.
Coaching & Continuous Improvement
- Coach team members and stakeholders on Agile and Lean principles and practices.
- Facilitate retrospectives that lead to actionable improvement experiments.
- Help teams evolve from reactive execution to proactive problem-solving and systems thinking.
- Foster a psychologically safe environment that supports learning, experimentation, and honest feedback.
Cross-Team & Ecosystem Collaboration
- Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to align practices and manage cross-team dependencies.
- Partner with Technical Product Managers, Engineering Leaders, and Architects to improve engagement, planning, and delivery outcomes.
- Participate in Communities of Practice to share learnings and promote consistent delivery practices.
- Support organizational initiatives related to delivery maturity and operational excellence.
Standards, Tools & Ways of Working
- Apply and reinforce agreed delivery standards, readiness expectations, and tooling practices.
- Use frameworks pragmatically (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban) based on team context and maturity.
- Contribute feedback to resources, templates, and guidance to improve their effectiveness and relevance.
Reporting & Role Context
- Reports to the Manager of IT Portfolio Operations
- Supports one or more teams aligned to a value stream or domain
- Partners closely with IT Portfolio Managers, Engineering, Product, and Architecture
- Leverages tools including Azure DevOps (ADO) and collaboration platforms (e.g., Lucid or equivalents)
How This Role Fits in the Ecosystem
- IT Portfolio Managers focus on what is delivered and how value flows across the portfolio.
- Managers of IT Portfolio Operations enable delivery by developing and supporting Scrum Masters.
- Scrum Masters focus on how teams work to deliver, acting as facilitators, coaches, and delivery leaders within value streams.
This might describe you
- Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master in a software delivery environment
- Strong facilitation and coaching skills
- Systems thinker who understands dependencies and flow beyond a single team
- Comfortable influencing without authority
- Clear communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
- Pragmatic and outcomes-focused, not dogmatic about frameworks
- Curious, empathetic, and committed to continuous improvement
- Experience working in complex or enterprise environments preferred
- Financial Technology Industry Experience.
- Experience working with Data Engineering Scrum Teams.
Other things to note
- This position is open to U.S. remote work. However, team members who reside within 20 miles of the Traverse City headquarters will follow a hybrid schedule, working from the office three days per week.
- May require travel for quarterly events.
- Familiarity with public company requirements, including Sarbanes Oxley and key regulations, if applicable. For SOX compliant roles, responsible for designing, executing, and documenting internal controls where they have been identified as owners to prevent errors in financial reporting, processes, and business operations. Including attestation to the completeness, accuracy, and compliance of all financial reporting data, where applicable.
Say hello to Hagerty
Hagerty is an automotive enthusiast brand and the world’s largest membership organization. Along with being a best-in-class provider of specialty insurance for enthusiasts, Hagerty is also home to the Hagerty Drivers Foundation, Hagerty Drivers Club, Marketplace and so much more. Committed to saving driving for future generations, each and every thing Hagerty does is dedicated to the love of the automobile.
Hagerty is a rapidly growing company that values a winning culture. We provide meaningful work for and invest in every single team member.
At Hagerty, we share the road. We are an inclusive automotive community where all are welcomed, valued and belong regardless of race, gender, age, or car preference. We are united by our shared passion for driving, our commitment to preserve car culture for future generations and our desire to make a positive impact in the world.
If you reside in the following jurisdictions: Illinois, Colorado, California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, or Jersey City, New Jersey, Cincinnati or Toledo, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington, British Columbia, Canada please email [email protected] for compensation, comprehensive benefits and the perks that set us apart.
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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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What We Do
Hagerty was built by people who love cars. We began as a niche insurance agency offering coverage for collector cars. We’re now a global automotive enthusiast brand and the world’s largest membership organization for car lovers. It's all driven by our love for cars.
Our purpose is saving driving. We exist to fuel car culture and ultimately save driving for future generations. Our mission is building a global business to fund our purpose, create a space where team members thrive; and drive positive impact throughout the world.
Driving is who we are. Hagerty offers integrated membership products and programs with unique experiences that bring together automotive enthusiasts across the globe. We connect people who love cars through our Hagerty Drivers Club (620,000+ members), entertainment and events such as the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, The Amelia, The Detroit Concours, Motorlux and the California Mille, as well as valuation capabilities, Hagerty Marketplace, Hagerty Media, and Garage + Social.
Hagerty is always looking for talented new team members to help us drive forward. If our purpose, mission and beliefs resonate with you, let’s talk about getting you behind the wheel
