Scrum Master

Job Title

Scrum Master

**Job Description**:
Job Summary:
We are looking for experienced Scrum master to join our dynamic team. You will work closely with development teams in introducing and strengthening our Agile practices while bringing visibility to progress. As a Scrum master, and experienced Agile evangelist, you will gain trust, identify a team’s challenges, asses a team’s maturity, understand their limitations, and implement suggested improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

- You will work with multiple cross-functional development teams in a Scrum Leader role.
- You will facilitate Agile ceremonies like daily stand-ups and retrospectives, as well as cross-team planning activities to plan, project and continuously deliver business value.
- You will monitor the health of development cycles, and initiative projections while maintaining consistent communication around risks and timelines.
- You will help teams to optimize the flow of work by removing impediments, running effective retrospectives, collecting and sharing metrics, and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement.
- You will track and communicate initiative status, dependencies, risks & their mitigation plans and timelines as appropriate for the respective audience.
- You will facilitate communication and forward progress within the team including breakout sessions, identifying milestones, decision making, removing blockers, and maintaining focus.
- You will help setup and organize work and documentation in systems including Jira, Confluence, Google, etc. to provide clarity and transparency around the work being done.
- You will collaborate with the rest of the program management team to both streamline and improve processes within the product development organization, creating and updating clear documentation for colleagues.
- You will help foster a healthy and collaborative team culture.
- You will assess the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coach the team to high performance, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- You will partner with product management and engineering to participate in program increment planning sessions and create short
- and longer-term roadmaps and release plans, contributing to roadmap alignment with other teams.

Required Skills and Experience:

- You are a self-starter, problem solver, communicative, facilitative, assertive, situationally aware, enthusiastic, and continually improving.
- You value transparency, can foster a cohesive team culture, and strive to empower your teams.
- You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to resolve conflicts and foster alignment with individuals and teams.
- You are well-versed in and a proponent of the Agile principles and manifesto and able to balance it with a drive to organize, plan and forecast, and being flexible enough to adapt practices to specific teams and the organization.
- You understand the fundamentals of full lifecycle software development processes and procedures.
- You have a strong ability to communicate in and outside the team on projects, timelines, risks & dependencies, process, and technical issues with peers and with executive stakeholders.
- You have experience with a range of tools and can learn to configure everything from an index card to JIRA integrations.
- You have 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager.
- You have 3+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams.
- Experience, insight, enthusiasm, and ability to learn is more important than classroom learning and certifications.

Good to Have:

- Agile coaching experience
- Safe certification

What will you learn on this job?

You will learn how to push ideas to the next level collaborating closely with editors, product leaders, and fellow creatives at the largest digital and print publisher in the US.

Designation: Scrum master

Working Hours: 1 PM - 10 PM IST

Work Location: EcoWorld, Bengaluru

It is the policy of Dotdash Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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