As a scrum master / project manager, you are responsible for running a highly efficient engineering team, facilitating execution and championing communication. You coordinate across departments to make sure that product goals encompass business imperatives. You balance business requirements with engineering needs in order to build stable infrastructure we can sell with confidence.

Responsibilities

Your main areas of responsibility that will have the greatest impact are keeping the team organized, focused and facilitating communication between teams.

Daily Responsibilities

ensure all JIRA tickets have acceptance criteria (or: problem/solution format), story point estimates

make sure every developer writes into the standup slack channel

run the daily engineering check-in calls

make sure developers are responding to support requests in the support channels

check-ins on daily (async) standups

Periodic Responsibilities

follow up about the ROI of previous features and product work as compared to the estimates

run all sprint planning meetings

keep up with developers on personal goals

ensure scheduling for all sprint planning meetings

attend Level 10 Product/Engineering and gather ratings for the meeting

ensure remote developers are attending the 9:45 tuesday meeting

ensure developers are keeping up with company-assigned tasks (like annual reviews, reading top-picks emails)

Sprint Responsibilities

collect feedback during sprint retrospectives and take action on them

participate in post mortems on downtime or degraded service events

effectively manage the work of the team from planned sprint and prioritized backlog

ensure all reported bugs are documented (ticketed)

work with product owner to maintain the backlog

assist team with identifying, communicating and resolving blockers (prior to and mid-sprint)

communicate any deviations from planned work

protect the team from (business or self-inflicted) distractions and stay focused

protect team from over-committing during planning and find a balance to avoid complacency

facilitate ticket flow, ensuring applicable tasks are properly reviewed and tested according to process

Requirements

you are solutions oriented: "it's about the who not the what"

you are open minded and willing to think outside the box

you radiate knowledge about Benzinga's products and services

producing high quality products is fundamental to your being

you care about our customers and you care about your colleagues

you believe that attention to detail now will save time later

you work smarter not harder wherever possible, leveraging all available tooling to automate whatever can be automated