Scrum Master

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

📋 Description

• Lead Agile ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and reviews.

• Organize ceremonies with defined time constraints and a focus on achieving outcomes.

• Foster trust and psychological safety to facilitate open retrospectives and reliable improvement initiatives.

• Transition sprint planning towards alignment by reviewing tickets, setting agendas, and cleaning up Jira.

• Ensure backlog integrity by categorizing, sizing, structuring, and preparing work for sprint commitments.

• Implement and uphold standardized ticket formats, issue types, field usage, user stories, acceptance criteria, spike criteria, and bug reproduction protocols.

• Monitor, analyze, and report on sprint metrics including velocity, rollover trends, and discrepancies between estimated and actual efforts.

• Conduct root-cause analyses of blockers and rollovers while ensuring implementation of corrective measures.

• Identify and address cross-team impediments, escalating larger issues to the Agile Practice Lead.

• Share delivery practices and assist in creating playbooks and templates for all teams.

• Support various teams at different levels of Agile maturity.

• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering Leads across multiple teams.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Strong interpersonal abilities to quickly build trust within teams that may be skeptical, fatigued, or experiencing conflict.

• Solid Jira expertise, covering backlog management, workflow configuration, automation, dashboard and reporting creation, and data quality oversight.

• Capability to work across multiple teams at once, manage the complexity of scheduling, and adapt to varying team maturity levels.

• A diagnostic approach to identifying team, process, and organizational challenges.

• Passion for Stand Together's vision and principled methodologies.

• Dedication to fostering a culture of transformation, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, humility, and respect.

• Experience establishing or scaling Agile practices in developing organizations.

• Background in supporting technology, data, or platform teams with inter-team dependencies and technical intricacies.

• Proficiency in creating sustainable templates, guides, and operational standards.

• Experience working within a structured Agile framework under a practice lead or center of excellence.

🏝️ Benefits

• 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting.

• Flexible time off.

• Comprehensive health and dental insurance plans.

• Wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.

• A meaningful career within a community of over 1,300 employees.

• A non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop, and utilize their unique talents.

• Competitive salary packages.

• Opportunities for bonuses.