Scrum Master

Role Overview

• Facilitate Scrum events (Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective, etc.) and ensure outcomes are clear and actionable.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to improve backlog readiness, requirement quality, prioritization, and acceptance criteria clarity at an organization level.
• Work with Product and Engineering Leads to support backlog refinement and readiness, ensuring work is clearly defined, appropriately scoped, and ready for development.
• Identify, escalate, and remove delivery impediments while coordinating cross-functional dependencies and resolving execution risks.
• Drive transparency, ownership, and accountability through delivery metrics, planning rigor, and effective cross-functional communication.
• Provide transparent, data-driven reporting on progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery forecasts to support informed decision-making and predictable outcomes.
• Coach teams to drive continuous improvement, optimize workflow efficiency, and drive predictable delivery.
• Coordinate cross-team planning and alignment on objectives, dependencies, deliverables, and release timelines.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration to proactively identify, manage, and resolve inter-team dependencies, enabling effective planning and successful execution of complex initiatives.
• Establish and maintain delivery metrics including cycle time, throughput, predictability, sprint health, and release performance.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, dependencies, and execution bottlenecks and drive mitigation plans.
• Coordinate release planning activities across Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders.
• Continuously evaluate and improve software delivery processes to increase efficiency, predictability, and quality.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years as a Scrum Master or Delivery Lead supporting Agile software engineering teams.
• Proven experience partnering with Product Owners to refine requirements, establish sprint goals, and ensure backlog readiness.
• Strong cross-organizational facilitation skills and conflict resolution capabilities; able to hold teams accountable with expertise in addressing challenges and conflicts to promote a positive, collaborative environment.
• Hands-on experience with Agile tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Miro) for backlog and metrics.
• Exposure to DevOps practices and release management coordination.
• Solid understanding of Scrum and Agile principles.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Equity
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Parental Leave with Pay
• Holiday pay (including December recess)
• Medical, Dental, Vision and life insurance
• Pre-tax benefits
• Short
• and Long-term disability plans
• Professional Development Stipend