Scrum Master

Role Overview

• Understand the difference between Agile and Scrum and be able to articulate it
• Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software
• Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective.
• Ensure all participants understand the ceremony's purpose and keep to the time-box.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration
• both inside and outside of team – allowing them to self-organize
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
• Understand and be able to articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team's environment and progress toward them
• Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined – prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
• Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria
• Proactively manage dependencies
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
• Participate in the agile community both internal to Assurant and external with other practitioners
• Enforces the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience working as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead
• Strong working knowledge of Scrum, Agile principles, and servant leadership
• Proven experience facilitating Sprint planning, Daily stand‑ups, and Sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Experience coaching cross‑functional teams (engineering, product, QA, operations)
• Ability to remove impediments and proactively manage dependencies and risks
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work across all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to promote continuous improvement, team accountability, and delivery predictability
• Previous AI experience is a plus

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities