Scrum Master

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
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 Agile ceremonies including standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and reviews.
  • Prepare teams for sprint planning by handling ticket review, agenda setting, and Jira cleanup in advance.
  • Maintain backlog health by ensuring work is categorized, sized, structured, and ready for sprint commitment.
  • Apply and reinforce standardized ticket structures, including issue types, field usage, user stories, acceptance criteria, spike criteria, and bug reproduction steps.
  • Track, analyze, and communicate sprint metrics such as velocity, rollover trends, and estimated versus actual effort.
  • Lead root-cause analysis of blockers and rollover, and drive corrective actions from carryover discussions.
  • Identify impediments that cross team boundaries and escalate unresolved issues to the Agile Practice Lead.
  • Build trust and psychological safety so retrospectives are candid and improvement actions are meaningful.
  • Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering Leads across multiple teams.
  • Contribute to delivery standards by sharing effective practices and helping create playbooks and templates.

Requirements

  • Prior experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting cross-functional product or technology teams.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust quickly on teams that may be skeptical, fatigued, or in conflict.
  • Strong Jira skills, including backlog management, workflow configuration, automation, dashboard creation, and reporting.
  • Comfort working across multiple teams at once and adapting to different Agile maturity levels.
  • Diagnostic mindset with the ability to distinguish between team, process, and organizational problems.
  • Enthusiasm for Stand Together's mission and commitment to its values, including transformation, innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.
  • Experience standing up or scaling Agile practices in a maturing organization (preferred).
  • Experience supporting technology, data, or platform teams with cross-team dependencies and technical complexity (preferred).
  • Demonstrated ability to create durable templates, guides, and operating standards (preferred).
  • Experience working within a structured Agile practice or center of excellence under a practice lead (preferred).

Benefits

  • 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Comprehensive health and dental plans.
  • Wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
  • Competitive salaries.
  • Bonus opportunities.
  • Non-hierarchical environment focused on growth and development.

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