Agile Delivery Lead – Scrum Master

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Build a robust, self-sustaining team that embodies extensive software development practices focused on communication, estimation, planning, prioritization, and delivery.

• Foster team wellbeing by showcasing vulnerability in leadership, holding team members accountable for their actions, and ensuring a structured process is established for capturing and sharing feedback both within and outside the team.

• Sustain an open and transparent set of facilitation practices to ensure clear communication regarding backlog, workload, throughput, and velocity, along with well-defined metrics on delivery and milestones.

• Evaluate the skills of team members based on the competency matrix relevant to their disciplines, conducting gap analysis related to workload and team responsibilities.

• Lead team meetings, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, demos, and retrospectives.

• Assist the Product Owner and/or Platform Lead in creating a healthy team dynamic focused on scope and prioritization.

• Support the Technical Lead in their iterative development efforts, emphasizing sound technical decision-making and understanding trade-offs to manage technical debt effectively.

• Establish checks and balances to ensure a balance between productivity and maintaining high quality and efficiency.

• Aid the team by removing barriers that hinder their ability to deliver work.

• Ensure transparency in the team’s progress through tools like the sprint backlog, burndown charts, and other relevant metrics.

• Coordinate multiple teams to ensure timely delivery of committed work.

• Collaborate with Product and Platform leads to execute 90-day scenario planning, major release planning, contingency strategies, and resource forecasting.

• Manage prioritization across teams by considering software and project dependencies.

• Apply project management skills such as creating project plans, meeting agendas, follow-up actions, and documentation of decisions as needed.

• Keep stakeholders updated on project statuses, achievements, and challenges promptly, while formulating action plans to address delays or issues and adhere to deadlines.

• Collaborate with team leads to design, develop, and implement a Team Maturity model aimed at enhancing execution capacity across the Technology team.

• Implement a phased approach for improving technical competencies, communication, platform culture, systems/capabilities, processes, curiosity, ownership, and management through training, coaching, education, and regular events.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in Agile facilitation and project management.

• 5-7 years of experience in a multi-team, cross-functional, platform environment.

• Excellent facilitation and collaboration abilities.

• Strong preference for candidates with a background in startups and/or growth-stage companies.

• Strong preference for candidates experienced in organizational change management.

• Any background supporting Salesforce development teams is advantageous.

• Proven track record in facilitating the development of high-quality teams.

• Ability to consistently and actively coach teams toward improved health and performance.

• Demonstrated capability to drive initiatives in cross-functional implementations.

• Proven effectiveness in fast-paced, dynamic growth-stage organizations.

• Capacity to inspire and motivate by example while managing organizational change.

• Knowledge of Lean and Agile methodologies, combined with pragmatism and adaptability.

• Proven abilities in stakeholder management, strategic prioritization, consensus building, and advocacy.

• Willingness to operate at multiple levels: strategic, managerial, and executional.

• Exceptional visual, verbal, and written communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness programs.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Flexible work arrangements promoting a healthy work-life balance.

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Collaborative and inclusive company culture.