**Responsibilities**:
- Guide strategic cross-functional Global Strategic priority teams through agile practices and tools
- Relentless focus on helping the team communicate, collaborate, help each other in the removal of barriers, and continues focus on the customer needs
- Connect agile values to compass ways of working in tangible actions that the team can learn, practice, and eventually mature on.
- Organize and facilitate all scrum related meetings (stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews, demos, etc.).
- Work with the product owner and team to develop roadmaps and manage backlog.
- Monitors team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state of the sprint.
- Works with product owners and stakeholders to refine vision and establish goals and metrics.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint progress to all affected teams and management.
- Prioritizes workload and ensures appropriate sizing and standardization of user stories.
- Coach product owner, other scrum masters, and individual team members in opportunities for improvement in mindset and practices to drive the team to higher engagement.
- Act as an agile ambassador in sessions across the organization like communities of practice, and leadership forums
- Ensure the team reaches a position to sustain the learning, mindset, and practices
- Co-create the agile standard for the business and socialize it as part of the overall change management plan
- Train and coaches more junior scrum masters
- Train the organization on agile values, practices, and tools
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor’s degree minimum
- 8+ years of experience leading both Scrum and Kanban Agile Teams
- 8+ years of Scrum Master active experience
- 8+ years of experience / ability to influence, engage teams & drive change. Assertive, Active listener and strong communicator who can connect with others.
- Current professional certification in Agile Methodologies (RTE, Scrum Master) from a recognized Agile certifier
- Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills
- JIRA/ADO experience
- Self-starter with strong sense of urgency in delivering results. Questions to understand and drive a better solution.
- Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines, and may extend outside the organization including suppliers, partners and customers.
- Verbal and written fluency in English is required.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
- A must - high EQ, i.e. really manage the “soft” side of the leadership and cross-functional interactions. This person must have experience operating with high assertiveness balanced with high trust
**Other qualifications**-desirable**:
- Experience working in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) practices
- Experience as software Release Train Engineer or Scrum of Scrums Master
- Lean, continuous improvement / process improvement experience
- Experience in a B2B environment preferred.
- Experience working with design thinking.
Education
Bachelor’s degree