Digital Scrum Master

**Description**

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Remove internal roadblocks that prevent Product Teams from reaching their full velocity and escalate external blockers to Platform Leadership and key stakeholders
- Facilitate sprint planning and retrospective activities
- Assist Product Owners in coaching them how to keep their backlogs appropriately groomed
- Work with Product Team leadership to establish best practices for team scrums and Scrum of Scrum activities
- Coach or secure coaching for each team to support continuous improvement activities
- Demonstrate an understanding of Agile practices and proactively seek opportunities to evolve them
- Experiment with and integrate processes and tools that encourage continuous improvement
- Develop a deep understanding of each Product Team and their role within the Digital Platform ecosystem
- Emphasize code quality through small, focused user stories; assist teams with a hands-on servant leader approach from inception to delivery of work
- Maintain relevant metrics and monitor team throughput and velocity, driving performance and continuous improvement
- Identify more efficient approaches to delivering working software through team enablement, agility, execution, and transparency
- Assist product teams in setting up scrum boards and dashboards, and showing them how to use them; reconfigure and optimize as needed
- Assist with Digital Platform sprint and quarterly planning ceremonies as needed
- Extract data from Jira or similar systems to create reports for Product Teams and management related to feature releases, defects, etc.
- May supervise other Scrum Masters, provide coaching and feedback, and ensure consistent and coordinated execution of Agile processes

VS&Co provides a range of compensation for this role as shown. Your actual salary will be determined by a number of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic region, or other relevant factors.

**Qualifications**

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Working familiarity with both Scrum and Kanban
- Experience leading teams developing software with Agile or related methodologies
- Well versed in conducting Scrum ceremonies, methods of story estimation, and velocity measurement
- Ability to learn and implement evolving Agile strategies, tools, and tactics
- Ability to develop and communicate clear expectations for training programs, compliance processes, process improvements, and decision-making
- Ability to train and mentor employees, including peers, on Agile and Scrum best practices
- Natural leader with the ability to motivate teams, bring groups to consensus, and inspire enthusiasm towards the goals of the team, especially within a highly collaborative matrix environment
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation and facilitation abilities
- Ability to multi-task in a dynamic work environment and manage competing priorities
- Fluent in Excel, able to create reports to visualize and interpret data
- Supervisor experience

**EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**:

- Bachelor’s degree and scrum master certification required
- 5+ years relevant professional experience or technology project management experience, ideally in a management role and with a digital commerce focus
- 5+ years in an agile environment as Scrum Master/Agile coach
- Proficiency with User Stories, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Pairing, and Automated Testing
- Professional experience in direct retail, e-commerce, or consulting environment preferred
- Must be able to demonstrate deep-working knowledge of key Agile and collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence to help administer, configure, support end users, create dashboards, templates, etc.