Join our team as a Scrum Master, where you'll own the sprint cadence and delivery rhythm that keeps engineering focused, unblocked, and shipping. As a Scrum Master, you'll focus on sprint execution and delivery discipline, reducing friction, protecting focus, and keeping stakeholders informed with accurate, current visibility.
Requirements
- Lead the full scrum cadence (planning, daily standups, refinement, review, retrospectives) with disciplined, pragmatic facilitation that respects the team's time.
- Protect sprint commitments by managing scope changes transparently, surfacing impacts and trade-offs before they become surprises.
- Remove blockers quickly; escalate decisively when impediments cannot be resolved within the team.
- Coach and support the team in effective Agile/Scrum practices through credibility, consistency, and collaboration — not prescription.
- Use delivery metrics (velocity, cycle time, throughput) and dashboards to improve predictability and drive continuous improvement — not to police.
- Foster a team culture focused on clarity, accountability, outcomes, and continuous improvement over ceremony and activity.
- Facilitate discovery workshops and refinement sessions to uncover true needs, constraints, and edge cases beyond initial requests.
- Partner with product and engineering to ensure user stories are clear, testable, and carry well-defined acceptance criteria — filling gaps yourself when needed.
- Challenge assumptions, resolve ambiguity, and make trade-offs explicit during refinement so engineers aren't guessing during implementation.
- Maintain a single source of truth in JIRA (epics, stories, dependencies, links, priorities) and keep it accurate, current, and trustworthy.
- Produce lightweight, high-value supporting artifacts as needed (process flows, decision logs, dependency maps) to aid alignment and execution.
- Coordinate with Delivery Manager and stakeholders on readiness, risks, dependencies, and upcoming work to ensure smooth delivery.
- Proactively identify and address process bottlenecks, quality gaps, and communication breakdowns before they become delivery issues.
Benefits
- Complimentary snacks
- Super cutting-edge technology
- State-of-the-art workspace
- Community involvement
- Great team synergy
- Incentive program for investing in your growth
- 401K savings plan and education reimbursement
- 24/7 access to a modern gym with Tonal and Peloton
- Free monthly garage parking with direct private access to the office
- Brand-new, sun-filled National Harbor offices with scenic views of the Potomac, surrounded by shops, restaurants, and more
- Medical, dental, life, and short-term disability insurance covered at 100% of the premium for employees and 50% for dependents
- Paid parental leave, including adoption and foster care placement
- PTO starting at 15 days during your first two years of employment, 20 days in years 2 through 4, and 25 days thereafter (+ incentives opportunities to earn more PTO!)
