Scrum Master

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Facilitate sprint ceremonies, driving team collaboration and engagement with a positive energy
• - Guard and shield the engineering teams by doing the ''behind the scenes'' work, setting the team up for success by translating ambiguity into clarity
• - Ensure all items meet a ''definition of ready'' and hold the team to a high-standard way of working—communicating the impact of doing or not doing something
• - Act as the communication glue between multiple engineering teams and wider business functions, to ensure all stakeholders are informed and aligned on key activities
• - Build processes that work for us by adapting Scrum practices to fit the unique needs to the team and business constraints—avoid a purist approach
• - Report project status updates that effectively communicates progress, risks, and milestones
• - Foster a culture of continuous improvement, steering people away from distractions and towards priorities

Required Skills

• - You have 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
• - You feel at home in Jira, and can use it efficiently
• - You have worked with growing engineering teams of 20+ individuals
• - You have managed teams across multiple streams of work
• - You can build relationships, and influence without authority - understanding different personality types
• - Bonus points: You are a magician in Notion, Figma and Miro
• - You have experience with release management
• - You like to explore new systems and ways to automate task in place of manual inputs
• - You have worked in a team across time-zones and are efficient at handovers

Benefits

• - Flexible working hours
• - Unlimited paid time off
• - A fully remote working situation
• - GBP £3k equipment and home office budget
• - Learning & development budget
• - On demand therapy sessions and mental health support via Spill
• - In-person meet ups
• - A compensation system that is transparent, honest, and equitable