Senior Scrum Master, Digital Instruction
 
What was once a traditional scrum team originally composed of engineers, the development team has recently grown to include creative and editorial team members. The team would benefit from an experienced and dedicated Scrum Master with the know-how to work across design, product, research, editorial and engineering teams to deliver projects in a fast-paced, content-focused agile environment.
 
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:

• Help integrate content and engineering teams into a combined, seamless agile delivery model
• 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-project team environment
• Utilize and improve usage of JIRA, and Confluence, as a tool to monitor and manage sprint success

 
Who we’re looking for:

• Experience working with content development teams, such as designers, editors or producers, or similar experience in content production, digital media or gaming
• 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 5 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
• Experience working in an agile-waterfall hybrid environment