Scrum Master

Job description

**OUR ORIGIN STORY** 🎂 In 2011 SkySlope started as an idea born at the kitchen table of our CEO, with just him and two others. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, we have since grown out of our previous 3 offices and many of our close to 150 employees are spread all across the United States. Those 150 employees support close to 300,000 users across 5,000 offices nationwide and now in Canada as well. Included in that is 8 out of the 15 largest Real Estate Brokerages in the nation. But, despite being happy with what we’ve achieved we know that as industry leaders in our space there’s a lot of work left to be done. All of the growth and success that has happened is a result of us obsessing over building cutting edge software that makes the Real Estate world a better place. We know this only happens by hiring people who don’t just come up with out of the box ideas but hiring people who actually see those ideas through and bring them to life. As we’ve grown, we’ve been fortunate enough to hire plenty of people who possess that quality and realize it’s equally important to hire people who can pair that skill with empathy, collaboration, and a keen sense of urgency. If you’re looking to join a company where you can have real impact and surround yourself with an incredible team of people then look no further. **SKYSLOPE’S CORE VALUES** 💪🏻 These are the principles that helped us get to where we are and they are the principles that will guide us to where we want to go in the future. You can apply them to your professional life, your personal life, to any business and any situation. In no specific hierarchy, our core values are: *Awareness | Execution | Obsession | Ownership | Humility | Radical Candor | Urgency | Greatness | Inches I Fun* **[Learn more about our core values from our CEO, Tyler Smith here!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNW0VLFjqzM&t=35s)** **Purpose:** A scrum master is passionate about technology and agile practices. You will lead the agile/scrum practice, leading sprint teams into successful completion of sprints. You will also work with product owners and leadership to facilitate conversations within and outside of the sprint teams. ### Essential Functions *Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.* 1. **Be the Agile champion and guide one or more teams in adoption of agile/scrum principles** 2. **Monitor team activity and guides workload commitments** 3. **Remove ambiguity by connecting with external teams or individuals so sprint progresses on schedule** 4. **Shield the team from external interferences that can jeopardize sprint goals** 5. **Keep team members engaged, involved and informed** 6. **Maintain data integrity, completeness, and accuracy in team tools for work tracking and reporting** 7. **Ensures effective and efficient meetings such as stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, release planning and retrospectives** 8. **Promotes collective ownership of story completion and sprint goals** 9. **Ensure team understands and commits to specific sprint goals and follows through accordingly** 10. **Provide consistent and periodic project status to senior management** 11. **Escalate impediments that cannot be resolved by the sprint team** 12. **Manage project for the engineering team** 13. **Coordinate cross-functional meetings to create project plans, release plans and other artifacts as needed** **Other Duties:** Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. ### Measurables: Helps to define, measure, and improve for each scrum team: - Velocity - Work completed - Impediment hours ### Qualifications - Scrum Master experience within web engineering and familiar with product launch cycles - Highly motivated, self-driven and passionate about delivering great experiences - Structured and efficient in planning and coordination of projects and sprints - Ability to be the agile leader for the sprint and extended team, focusing on best-practices and principles - Mentor sprint teams and external members on agile/scrum principles - Strong written and oral communication skills - Expertise with various agile and software development tools (e.g. JIRA) - Demonstrable history of leading various agile/scrum projects for cross-functional and highly matrixed organizations - Able to influence and coach senior leadership on continually growing the agile practice ### Required Education and Experience: - Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Scrum Professional(CSP) required - PMP certification, preferred