The Scrum Master teaches Scrum to the whole organization and coaches in their never-ending adoption, uses a deep Scrum understanding to guide everybody to discover how they can best contribute to creating the most valuable product.
Scrum Master provides service to IT teams (coaching in development of high-value products, technical excellence practices, effective facilitation of team events, identifying and helping to resolve team impediments), to Product Owners (effective backlog management, clarity of backlog items value proposition, ..), and to Organization (adoption of lean/agile principles, removal of waste, improving transparency for stakeholders, descaling of the organizational design and removal of bureaucracy).
We would like to hire a person with experience with LeSS and the new Scrum Master will be helping with LeSS adoption in our company. Initially, our Scrum Master will be coaching 2-3 teams. Progressively, on organizational level, we would like our Scrum master to work side-by-side with management on wider adoption of LeSS principles and improving the organizational design over time.
Essentials
- Pro-activity and co-creating motivational environment.
- Ready to solve attitude and drive to understanding problem first.
- Excellence promoter seeking continuous improvement of status quo.
- Thoroughness with ability to own solution including its corner cases.
- Independence with no need for a detailed description of what to do.
Required
- Agile & Product mindset
- Deep understanding of Lean-Agile leadership values and principles
- Profound knowledge of Scrum framework
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Experience with LeSS adoption with ability to facilitate LeSS framework events
- Facilitation skills, with a demonstrable history of working in multi-team ecosystem
- Effective negotiation skills in the context of a development team and diverse kinds of stakeholders and customers
- Ability to influence, convince and resolve conflicts across a distributed organization
- Superb conflict resolution skills, with an ability to empathically gauge situations and diffuse tension through understanding and addressing people's needs.
- Familiar with and desire to stay up to date on modern practices in product development
- Excellent communication skills in English both spoken and written
Advantageous
- Expertise in LeSS and organizational design transitions
- Experience in Org.Topologies
- Experience with complexity theory / Cynefin / sense-making
- Experience with Evidence Based Management
- Experience with Liberating structures
- Active participant of Agile communities
- Experience with fintech lending products and product management in general
- Certifications, trainings related to product ownership and product development methodologies and frameworks
Responsibilities
- To educate and coach the teams in Scrum, LeSS, self-management, taking on a shared responsibility, cross-functionality and multi-specialization
- To educate and coach the teams in modern development practices and technical excellence
- To coach Product owners in best use of Product backlog, in interactions with the team in order to maximize the value for the customer
- To partner up with management in improving organizational design as a coach and educator
- To remove bureaucracy, remove waste and increase transparency through "descaling" of the organization
- Keep up with the latest developments of best practices on lean-agile scene and with agile communities