Scrum Master

What's the Short Version?

The Scrum Master plays a crucial role in ensuring the successful implementation of Agile principles and practices within the organization. This position is responsible for fostering a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement. The Scrum Master facilitates the Scrum process, removes impediments, and promotes self-organization within the development team.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Lead and facilitate planning sessions, daily stand-ups, project reviews and retrospectives.
• Ensure that the Scrum framework is understood, adopted, and consistently applied by the development team.
• Coach and mentor the development team on Agile and Scrum principles.
• Foster a collaborative and self-organizing culture within the team to include trust, respect and accountability.
• Remove impediments and facilitate resolution of issues to keep the team focused on delivering high-quality products.
• Act as a bridge between the development team and stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between the team and product owners, ensuring that project priorities and requirements are clear.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Conduct regular retrospectives to review and improve team performance.
• Track and report key Agile metrics, such as team velocity, sprint progress, and release burndown, to stakeholders.
• Ensure transparency into the team's progress and performance.
• Identify and address potential risks and issues that may impact the team's ability to deliver on commitments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to mitigate risks and ensure successful project delivery.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.

What Are We Looking For?

• Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Business, or related discipline or equivalent experience
• 1-3 years proven experience as a Scrum Master in Agile software development environments
• Experience with other Agile frameworks (Kanban, XP, etc.)
• Familiarity with project management tools (ADO, Jira, etc.)
• Knowledge of software development practices and methodologies
• SAFe Scrum Master Certification or equivalent
• Strong understanding of Agile principles and the Scrum framework
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment and facilitate change
• Commitment to customer service
• Solid analytical and reasoning skills and proven ability to develop solutions to complex problems
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical individuals
• Empathy and emotional intelligence

What's Our Offer?

Salary Range: You`ll earn between $100,000 - $140,000 annually, depending on experience.

Bonus: You`ll be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus up to 10% of base salary.

Paid Time Off: You`ll accrue paid time off on a bi-weekly basis based on hours worked up to 112 hours per year to start. Employees also receive 8 paid holidays and 1 paid family day off.

Additional Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle
• Life insurance
• Short/long-term disability coverage
• Paid maternity/paternity leave
• Pet insurance

What Should You Expect?

Hybrid: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work environment is moderately quiet. Ability to work on computer for multiple hours with frequent interruptions.

SanMar's Eastpointe office is located near Seattle, WA and our standard working hours are 8:00-5:00 PST. Quarterly travel may be required.