Scrum Master

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

📋 Description

• Lead Agile ceremonies such as standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and reviews with thorough preparation, precise time management, and a strong focus on outcomes over processes.

• Establish trust and psychological safety to foster honest retrospectives and ensure improvement actions are taken seriously.

• Transition sprint planning from discovery during meetings to alignment by handling administrative tasks and preparation work, including ticket reviews, agenda creation, and Jira organization.

• Ensure the health of the backlog: confirm that work is accurately categorized, sized, structured, and ready for commitment prior to entering a sprint.

• Implement and uphold standardized ticket structures, including consistent issue types, field usage, user story formats, acceptance criteria, spike success criteria, and bug reproduction steps.

• Monitor, analyze, and communicate sprint metrics such as velocity, rollover trends, and the comparison of estimated versus actual effort; identify patterns that enhance planning accuracy over time.

• Facilitate root-cause analysis for blockers and rollovers; ensure that discussions about carryovers lead to specific corrective actions.

• Identify and proactively address impediments that impact multiple teams, escalating to the Agile Practice Lead when broader organizational action is needed for resolution.

• Contribute to overall delivery standards by sharing effective practices, highlighting areas needing improvement, and assisting in the development of playbooks and templates that benefit all teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Previous experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting cross-functional product or technology teams.

• Interpersonal skills to quickly build trust within teams that may be skeptical, fatigued, or experiencing conflict.

• Proficient in Jira: managing backlogs, configuring workflows, automating processes, developing dashboards and reports, and maintaining clean and meaningful data.

• Ability to operate across multiple teams simultaneously, managing complex schedules and adapting your approach to teams at varying levels of maturity.

• A diagnostic mindset: capable of identifying patterns, asking insightful questions, and distinguishing between team, process, and organizational problems before deciding on a response.

• Passion for contributing to Stand Together's vision and principled problem-solving approach, along with a commitment to nurturing our culture, which values transformation, innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, along with wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.

• A meaningful career: Become part of a dedicated community of over 1,300 employees focused on enhancing lives and creating innovative solutions to complex social issues.

• Commitment to growth: Flourish in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop, and utilize their unique talents.

• Competitive compensation: Our strategy rewards the value you generate through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, enabling you to share in the success you help create.