Scrum Master

We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive, and resourceful Scrum Master for this rapidly growing education company committed to making classrooms better for teachers and students. In this role, you will help facilitate and provide oversight of a large development team to provide consistency and velocity.  This team has been running for years, but without a dedicated scrum master.  They will benefit from the fresh perspective of an experienced and dedicated scrum master to improve and provide oversight on day-to-day scrum practices. The role requires a proven track record of professional excellence and a passion to be the driving force behind developing great software with a laudable purpose.

The impact you’ll have:

• Facilitate and moderate sprint grooming, planning, demos, retrospectives and daily scrums
• Remove obstacles to team and sprint success
• Encourage self-organization by facilitating the appropriate delegation of tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members
• Coordinate across co-dependent scrum teams in multi-scrum team environment
• Utilize and improve usage of JIRA, and to a certain extent Confluence, as a tool to monitor and manage sprint success

What we’re looking for:

• A deep understanding and the ability to apply both the theoretical and practical aspects of agile development
• Proven experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience working closely with Project Managers to improve project predictably and delivery success
• Ability to help product teams generate product backlog and make them ready for the next sprint
• Experience effectively identifying and driving resolution on deliverable dependencies with other teams
• At least 1 year of experience using JIRA to track and manage agile development, or experience using tools similar to the Atlassian suite of products
• Someone who has the ability to:
  • Influence and lead development, quality, and product professionals, including design (both user experience and interaction)
  • Partner closely with product to set the vision and execute the sprint plan
  • Foster and maintain a collaborative team dynamic
  • Solve problems and think critically
  • Plan and organize (and re-organize) in an environment of shifting priorities
  • Communicate clearly, both by speaking directly and writing concisely
  • Negotiate and manage conflict
  • Learn quickly and adapt to the environment
  • Proactively identify blockers and help the team look ahead for potential risks and recommend mitigations
• A Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with a minimum of 2 years of experience as a scrum master.
• A Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a computer science, information technology, or an equally technical discipline

We’d also love to see:

• Experience with a variety of AGILE methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Scumban, etc.)
• Experience in education technology
• Experience working in an agile-waterfall hybrid environment