Senior Scrum Master
Vibes helps brands unlock new revenue by arming them with the technology and expertise they need to succeed in mobile marketing.
We are a group of passionate technologists, intent on solving hard problems in the evolving world of mobile engagement. We focus on collaboration and continuous improvement of our products and ourselves. Our current initiatives are heavily focused on improving user experience and evolving our cloud-based applications and systems.
Vibes is seeking a passionate, detail-oriented Scrum Master to join our team. The person in this position will play a key role in the overall success of our organization by planning, organizing, and directing engineering to meet company objectives. They will also be responsible for overseeing various engineering projects, processes, and timelines and for making necessary adjustments to ensure successful completion. The ideal candidate has a positive attitude with a strong focus on leadership and accountability.
You will act as a cross functional partner, and help us manage and evolve the way we drive high impact projects and initiatives across our teams focusing on leading Agile practices using the Scrum and Kanban frameworks for Engineering and Product teams; creating sustainable processes and software to facilitate faster delivery, impacting the growth of Vibes. Success in this space is key to the scalability of our engineering process and one of the prime drivers of our product strategy.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Guiding the Engineering teams and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner(s), especially on refining and maintaining the product backlog.
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example
- Set the standards for us to deliver initiatives across an organization and functions, leveraging agile methodologies
- Train and coach leaders and initiative managers on how to identify, size, design and deliver their efforts, adopting best practices and bringing them to the next level as change agents.
- Own and manage our multiple operational sprints across Services, ensuring timely execution, supporting leads execute and acting as an enabler for the organization
- Lead Scrum methodology across global initiatives, incorporating them into our Initiative management process and helping us weave into the priority setting
- Remove obstacles to initiative progress, collaborate with others to prioritize effort, support senior leads, make trade-offs and evolve our plans as operational realities change.
- Ability to leverage improvement methodologies to improve performance, remove blockers or find new solutions
- Lead our regular initiative governance across services, act as our quality gate to ensure standards for initiative management are adhered too and lead common agile governance (e.g.. Post mortems, backlog reviews etc…)
- Lead the effort to track long term impact of our initiatives, collaborating with other functions to quantity and validate impact
- Accountable for the overall health of our initiative management process across European Services and compliance to our standard.
- Responsible for the delivery of our ambitious plans across Europe, collaborating with leaders to a timely execution
Requirements and Qualifications
- Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
- The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
- A desire to work in and improve upon a fast-paced technology-driven business environment.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, being able to build and run at the same time, energized by a complex and every changing environment.
- Experience in leading agile organizations and initiatives, combining operations and technology - supporting others deliver bottom line impact.
- E-commerce, retail, consumer goods, or internet services experience and/or consulting background is advantageous
- An accredited college or university degree and / or certification with emphasis on initiative management, agile methodology , product management or operations
- Strong analytical skills, and comfortable utilizing data to solve problems and following structured approach
- Comfortable with data analysis tools (e.g., Google Data Studio, Tableau, Lookers), ideally with experience using SQL and Database navigation.
- Experience managing projects from inception to completion, in an agile environment - using methodologies suited for fast paced, technology rich environments (e.g., Prince2 Agile PM, Certified Scrum Master, Six Sigma)
- An open personality and confidence to work with mid-level business partners
- Strong communication skills, happy to work with individuals, senior leaders or large groups
- Experience managing and building relationships cross functionally
- Experience managing and developing other team members
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach
Our Core Values
- Respect, Honesty, and Integrity for All Stakeholders
- Always be Learning
- Relentless Focus on the Customer
- Never be Satisfied
- Create Value
- Seek Accountability and Ownership
Vibes is an equal opportunity employer that encourages and fosters diversity in the workplace. We offer a career building experience in a fast-paced organization and industry