Why join this team:
Our PMO is a passionate group of servant leaders supporting high-performing teams. We are committed to quality, continuously learning, and relentlessly improving. Our work directly impacts the company’s goals and mission. Want to make a difference? Join us!
The impact you’ll have:
- Facilitate and moderate sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint demo, sprint retrospective and backlog refinement meetings
- 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 Confluence, as a tool to monitor and manage sprint success
Who 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 Stakeholders 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
- Experience with a variety of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, etc.)
- Someone who has the ability to:
- Assess the Agile maturity of the team and organization and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Influence and lead development, quality, and product professionals
- 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
- Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example
- A Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with a minimum of 2 years of experience as a Scrum Master in more than one organization, for multiple teams simultaneously
- A Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a computer science, information technology, or an equally technical discipline; or equivalent work experience
We’d also love to see, though not required:
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
Experience in education technology