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Leading the efforts of a software development team from definition through delivery of a timely, quality product. Being an Agile Scrum Master for 1-2 teams.
Coordinating team activities to ensure each project completes on-time and within agreed constraints of resources, scope, and quality
Working with product management and engineering teams to develop program plans, schedules, and risk assessments
Monitoring each project from initiation through delivery, including tracking and communicating status, leading options for mitigating risk, and driving issues to resolution
Providing leadership to drive projects to successful completion.
Strongly serving and supporting the product owner and team in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style
Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments
Facilitating discussion, decision-making, problem solving, and conflict resolution Guiding and coaching the team how to use Agile/Scrum practices and get the most out of self-organization
Communicating status, improving transparency, and radiating information Supporting the Product Owner, especially in managing the product backlog.
- B.S. or B.A. in a related field or equivalent experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, organizational skills, and interpersonal skills
- Strong, proven ability to interact and be credible with peer and senior level managers
- Strong, proven ability to build relationships across team boundaries and successfully operate in a highly cross-functional and global organization Experience collaboratively leading cross-functional teams
- Minimum 3 years of experience working on an engineering development team
- Minimum 1 year of experience as a Scrum Master
- First level Scrum Master certification (PSM I, CSM)
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, and continual improvement
- Planning, promoting process improvement, dealing with complexity, analyzing information
- Proficiency in MS Office & Google apps
- Experience with Pro Tools and audio production workflows
- Project/program management experience in software development
- Knowledge of new product development and program management processes Ability to assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification
- Second level Scrum Master certification (PSM II, CSP)
- Proficiency in Atlassian Jira and Confluence