Scrum Master

Scrum Master

• Dual-Scrum Facilitation & Product Owner Collaboration: Partners closely with Product Owners as they work in their own discovery and refinement sprints. Ensures alignment between Product sprint outputs and Development sprint inputs. Facilitates joint sessions to clarify requirements break down work and ensure Definition of Ready is consistently met. Guides POs in user story creation acceptance criteria clarity and incremental delivery planning.
  
• Scrum Ceremony Facilitation & Coaching: Facilitates all Scrum ceremonies for onshore development teams including sprint planning daily standups sprint reviews and retrospectives. Coaches team members on Scrum values principles and role expectations. Strengthens team accountability transparency and self-organization.
  
• Backlog Readiness & Workflow Optimization: Leads backlog refinement and readiness sessions to maintain a predictable pipeline of sprint-ready work 12 sprints ahead. Identifies story gaps dependencies and risks early and ensure follow-up with relevant stakeholders. Supports smooth handoff from Product discovery engineering analysis development QA validation.
  
• Impediment Resolution & Team Support: Proactively identifies and removes blockers that impact sprint progress or quality. Protects teams from scope creep unplanned work or conflicting priorities. Promotes continuous improvement and fosters a culture of predictable high-quality delivery.
  
• Cross-Functional Coordination & Communication: Ensures clear communication between Product Owners UX Development QA Architecture and leadership. Communicates sprint goals progress risks and dependencies to stakeholders. Supports alignment across teams on roadmap priorities technical constraints and delivery expectations.
  
• Metrics Reporting & Continuous Improvement: Tracks and analyzes sprint metrics such as velocity burndown predictability and story readiness. Provides insights and recommendations to improve team flow product readiness and overall delivery health. Facilitates retrospectives and turns improvement items into actionable plans.
  
• Other duties and projects as assigned.
  

• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks with deep practical experience in Scrum.
  
• Ability to coach both development and product teams in Agile best practices.
  
• Exceptional facilitation communication and conflict-resolution skills.
  
• Ability to translate high-level product goals into clear actionable team-level execution plans.
  
• Skilled in driving alignment across cross-functional groups.
  
• Proficiency with Jira or comparable Agile lifecycle management tools.
  
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities with attention to detail and follow-through.
  

• Scrum Master certification (CSM PSM) required.
  
• Minimum 5 years as a Scrum Master or Agile facilitator in software development environments.
  
• Experience supporting Product Owners or Business Analysts in refinement and backlog preparation.
  
• Experience working with onshore and offshore development teams preferred.
  
• Experience implementing process improvements and best practices within the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
  
• Experience in dual-scrum or product discovery/delivery pipeline models preferred.
  

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
  

Annual Salary Range: $100000.00-$125000.00

Compensation: Salary is established based on various factors including but not limited to prior employment history job-related knowledge education and training skills and geographic location.

Requirements

• Scrum Master certification (CSM PSM) required.
  
• Minimum 5 years as a Scrum Master or Agile facilitator in software development environments.
  
• Experience supporting Product Owners or Business Analysts in refinement and backlog preparation.
  
• Experience working with onshore and offshore development teams preferred.
  
• Experience implementing process improvements and best practices within the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
  
• Experience in dual-scrum or product discovery/delivery pipeline models preferred.
  
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks with deep practical experience in Scrum.
  
• Ability to coach both development and product teams in Agile best practices.
  
• Exceptional facilitation communication and conflict-resolution skills.
  
• Ability to translate high-level product goals into clear actionable team-level execution plans.
  
• Skilled in driving alignment across cross-functional groups.
  
• Proficiency with Jira or comparable Agile lifecycle management tools.
  
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities with attention to detail and follow-through.