Scrum Master
Los Angeles, CA - USA
Job Summary
Recognized as Social Media/Influencer Agency of the Year and as the annual partner for Forbes Top Creators List Influential sits at the center of culture and the creator economy.
Through our platform Captiv8 the industrys #1 ranked influencer marketing platform we combine deep API integrations advanced AI and machine learning with human expertise to connect brands with a network of more than 15 million creators worldwide.
Our work powers award-winning campaigns across Meta Snap TikTok YouTube and more partnering with Fortune 500 companies and global organizations to deliver impact across retail foot traffic in-store sales online conversions and TV tune-in.
At Influential youll work with a fast-moving high-performance team solving complex problems and shaping the future of marketing. Youll build grow and make an impact alongside top talent leading brands and the worlds most influential creators.
Ready to join us
Influential is looking for a highly organized execution-driven Project Manager / Scrum Master to support delivery across our Creator Commerce platform. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments brings structure to ambiguity and is passionate about driving predicable high-quality execution across product and engineering teams.
You will play a critical role in optimizing Agile processes improving team velocity and ensuring alignment across cross-functional stakeholders. A key focus of this role is owning and enhancing our Jira and Confluence environments to design efficient workflows implementing automation and leveraging AI to streamline reporting and improve operational visibility.
This is a hands-on role for someone who combines strong program management fundamentals with a continuous improvement mindset.
Agile Execution & Scrum Facilitation
- Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to ensure smooth sprintexecution
- Facilitate core Scrum Ceremonies:
- Daily Standups
- Sprint Planning
- Retrospectives
- Backlog grooming and refinement sessions
- Ensure backlog readiness by making sure Product Backlog items are clearly defined
- estimated and ready for upcoming sprints
- Drive continuous improvement through actionable insights from retrospectives
Delivery Management & Accountability
- Track feature progress and ensure timely delivery across sprints
- Proactively identify risks blockers and dependencies and drive resolution
- Communicate delays and changes in timelines clearly to stakeholders
- Facilitate trade-off decisions (scope vs. Time vs. Quality) in alignment with Product
Resource & Capacity Planning
- Assign resources in coordination with Engineering Leads
- Track engineering workload and capacity across sprints and releases
- Support forward-looking capacity planning and resource allocation
Performance Tracking & Reporting
- Monitor and report on engineering performance metrics including:
- Sprint burndown
- Cycle time
- Throughput / velocity
- Own status reporting for stakeholders and leadership
- Ensure transparency into progress risks and delivery health
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Coordinate dependencies across teams including Engineering Infrastructure QA Legal
- and Marketing
- Build and maintain project timelines across initiatives and dependencies
- Manage release schedules and calendars
Tooling Workflow Optimization & Automation
- Own and continuously improve Jira and Confluence workflows
- Set up and manage boards tagging structures dashboards and reporting frameworks
- Implement automation within Jira and Confluence to improve efficiency and reduce
- manual work
- Leverage AI tools to optimize workflows generate reports and surface actionable
- insights
- Establish and enforce best practices for documentation and team processes
- 5-8 years of experience as a Project Manager Scrum Master or Technical Program
- Manager in a product-driven organization
- Strong experience running Agile/Scrum processes with engineering and product teams
- Deep hands-on expertise with Jira and Confluence including workflow optimizationboard setup tagging and automation
- Experience leveraging AI tools to improve workflows reporting and team efficiency
- Proven ability to track and improve delivery metrics (velocity cycle time throughput)
- Strong organizational skills with experience working across cross-functional teams
- Ability to proactively manage risks dependencies and competing priorities
- Experience with release planning and coordinating complex multi-team deliverables
- Detail-oriented with a focus on executional excellent and continuous improvement
Our Publicis Groupe motto Viva La Différence means were better together and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities across all facets of intersectionality and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage dental vision disability 401K as well as parental and family care leave family forming assistance tuition reimbursement and flexible time off.
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About Company
Publicis Media is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40], alongside Publicis Communications, Publicis.Sapient and Publicis Healthcare. Led by Steve King, CEO, Publicis Media is powered by its five global brands, Starcom, Zenith, Spark ... View more