Scrum Master

2 weeks ago
Full-time
Mid Level
Project and Program Management
Stand Together

Stand Together

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that empowers changemakers to address the underlying issues of significant societal challenges in America, focusing on areas such as education, healthcare, and fostering bipartisan collaboration.

Diversified Consumer Services
251-1K

Description

  • Facilitate standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and reviews.
  • Build trust and psychological safety to support honest retrospectives and meaningful improvement.
  • Prepare teams for sprint planning through ticket review, agenda setting, and Jira cleanup.
  • Maintain healthy, properly categorized, sized, structured, and sprint-ready backlogs.
  • Apply standardized ticket structures, including issue types, fields, user stories, acceptance criteria, spike criteria, and bug reproduction steps.
  • Track and communicate sprint metrics such as velocity, rollover trends, and estimated versus actual effort.
  • Lead root-cause analysis for blockers and rollover, ensuring corrective actions are defined.
  • Identify cross-team impediments and escalate issues requiring broader organizational action.
  • Contribute to Agile standards, playbooks, templates, and operating practices across teams.

Requirements

  • Prior experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting cross-functional product or technology teams.
  • Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills, including the ability to build trust within skeptical, fatigued, or conflicted teams.
  • Strong Jira skills, including backlog management, workflow configuration, automation, dashboards, reporting, and data quality.
  • Ability to support multiple teams simultaneously and adapt to different Agile maturity levels.
  • Diagnostic mindset with the ability to distinguish team, process, and organizational problems.
  • Commitment to Stand Together’s values, including transformation, innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.
  • Experience establishing or scaling Agile practices in maturing organizations (preferred).
  • Experience supporting technology, data, or platform teams with complex cross-team dependencies (preferred).
  • Experience creating durable templates, guides, and operating standards (preferred).
  • Experience working within a structured Agile practice, center of excellence, or under a practice lead (preferred).

Benefits

  • 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting.
  • Flexible time off and comprehensive health and dental plans.
  • Wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
  • Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
  • Non-hierarchical environment supporting employee growth and development.
  • Mission-driven community of more than 1,300 employees.

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