Who are we?
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.
Summary
As a Senior Scrum Master, you are instrumental in enabling development teams to deliver predictably at scale. This position will coordinate with multiple teams and stakeholders in multiple time zones to drive alignment on prioritization and execution. You will lead the implementation of the Scrum process across multiple teams, working closely with Product and Engineering to ensure consistency and efficiency in the delivery of development projects. The person stepping into the role will have a passion for establishing order in a fast-moving environment rooted in continuous improvement. You have tricks up your sleeve to lead by influencing others, and Jira is your best friend.
How will you contribute
- Advocate for Agile best practices within the organization, helping to shape and refine our processes, while supporting and coaching development teams and facilitating working arrangements across teams
- Collaborate with the Product team to prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring that the teams are working on the most valuable projects
- Review requirements in support of the Product team in User Story creation to breakdown work into small units
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project data
- Lead Scrum ceremonies for multiple Engineering teams: Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand Ups
- Lead the standardization of Scrum across teams by consolidating Jira workflows, driving common terminology and producing operational data to measure velocity and throughput to ensure alignment and consistency across teams
- Lead Scrum of Scrums and remove impediments while promoting a culture of continuous improvement
- Partner with the Product team in creating and updating reports for stakeholders
- Maintain subject matter expertise in the product domain
- Foster a collaborative and transparent team environment, encouraging open communication and feedback
What do you bring
- 7+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in a software development environment
- Proficiency in Atlassian tooling, especially Jira and Confluence
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Experience shipping high quality products
- Demonstrated experience breaking down Product requirements into iterative deliverables while identifying gaps early
- Knowledge of Agile oriented techniques that complement Scrum, such as User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Planning Poker, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Paired Programming, Swarming, Automated Testing.
- Preferred: 2-3 years as a people manager
- Preferred: Scrum Master Certification
What do we offer?
- Healthcare insurance - We provide medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a flexible spending account that allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.
- Personal time off - A healthy work-life balance is critical to your success at the office. Smarsh offers a “take-what-you-need” time off policy as well as flexible work arrangements
- 401K Match - Smarsh provides a 4% 401K match for which employees are fully vested on day one.
- Sabbatical – The Smarsh sabbatical program provides a time to recharge, to study or simply a time to do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service.
- Recognition - We’re big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee-recognition program enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition
Smarsh is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Smarsh invites all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Including frequency of functions.
About our culture
Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.
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Last updated on Sep 4, 2024