divvyDOSE is a rapidly growing healthcare startup headquartered in Chicago. Our vision is a life where medicine does what it's supposed to, and people get the attention and care they deserve. We strive to improve the quality of life through innovative design and compassionate customer service that allows medicine to get out of the way of our customers’ lives.

Vision/Mission

Our vision is to fix and reimagine healthcare for everyone. Our mission is to engage customers by fixing all the problems around getting and taking their medications. We've taken the first step by simplifying adherence.

We’re now part of Optum and the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, backed by the resources of a global health organization working to help people live healthier lives and to help make the health system work better for everyone. Are you looking for a way to create next-level results with a human-level approach? Then look at opportunities with divvyDOSE, where changing the world is just one result of doing your life’s best work. (SM)

Requirements

In the scrum master role, you will be responsible for cultivating an environment that enables teams to deliver their best work and continuously improve. The scrum master is people focused and serves as a facilitator, coach, servant leader, and is a “mirror” for the team. Also crucial is the ability to enable timely delivery through removal of blockers and to set expectations through consistent communication both within and beyond the teams you support.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Coach the team on scrum & agile practices and values
• Coach the team towards a consistent estimation and planning cadence to support predictable value delivery
• Help build a transparent environment that enables respectful cador and promotes a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and self-organization
• Give/receive feedback effectively and coach others to do the same
• Use facilitation techniques to achieve alignment and uncover areas of confusion
• Explain the “why” behind any scrum process to team members and stakeholders across the business and be open to change
• Ensure the effectiveness of all scrum events including daily standups, sprint planning, estimation, and retrospective meetings
• Ensure the team maintains focus on objectives, goals and scope for each sprint
• Track progress to plan for all sprints in order to proactively communicate and manage risk
• Communicate and escalate issues, as needed, to leadership
• Create partnerships within and beyond the technology department
• Support backlog refinement and epic definition with product management
• Support program level events as needed including scrum of scrums and release planning activities

Skills & Experience

• Strong communication, coaching, and facilitation skills
• Ability to set and manage realistic expectations
• Ability to understand and communicate the differences between commonly used agile frameworks
• Ability to identify and address, with support, process and collaboration issues within the teams you support
• Holds themselves to a consistently high standard of accountability
• 2+ years experience working with software development teams in a scrum master role
• CSM or other relevant certification preferred but not required

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary our company offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans and contributes to an HSA annually.

Our Engineering Culture:

We are a very collaborative group that is inclusive, fun, and hard-working. We appreciate the value in diverse backgrounds and experiences so that we can create the best product through different perspectives and ideas. Currently, several of our engineers are based in Chicago but working from home during COVID (and flexibility to continue that once we open up the office), as well as fully-remote engineers throughout the country; we strive to create an environment where you can do your best work in the environment and location that is best suited for each individual. As a member of our team, you can expect to work with intelligent, curious, and motivated peers who value and respect your perspectives.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.

Employment with divvyDOSE is AT WILL, and can be terminated at any time, for any reason, by either party.

We encourage individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply. Applicants who require an accommodation related to the application and/or review process may reach out to us at: [email protected].