Lead Scrum Master (Remote)

Job description:

* Responsible for guiding the development of an agile team into an effective delivery unit with a sustainable cadence

* Responsible for ensuring the teams process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice

* Must be able to nurture self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring

* Facilitate project team meetings, project road-mapping sessions, gather feedback by presenting to all levels of leadership

* Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes

* Excellent communicator, able to gain the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management

* Able to resolve conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation

* Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution

* Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, retrospectives and sprint reviews

* Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed

* Ensure cross-team coordination

* Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal

* Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team see how they are doing

Top 3 skills:

* Scrum & Agile Mindset

* Tool Knowledge (Jira & Confluence)

* Proactive Team Player

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.