Scrum Master

Company Description

Scaled Agile, Inc., (SAI) is the provider of SAFe®, the world’s leading Framework for enterprise agility. Through learning and certification, a global partner network, and a growing community of over 800,000 trained professionals, SAI helps enterprises build better systems, increase employee engagement, and improve business outcomes.

Based in Boulder, Colorado, SAI is a member of the Pledge 1% corporate philanthropy movement. SAI contributes to the local community through this program and inspires and encourages other companies to do the same.

**Job Description**:
The Scrum Master (SM) for the APAC team is responsible for facilitating team-level agile processes and agile release train execution around program increment objectives’ definition, scope, and delivery. The SM must resolve team-level impediments, manage risk, and drive continuous improvement throughout the agile teams and lifecycle. The SM has a good understanding of agile scrum and Kanban principles and practices and understands the unique opportunities and challenges associated with organizing, facilitating, and continuously aligning the scrum team with the guiding business strategy as a part of an agile release train.

This role is to be based remotely in the APAC region with limited support to United States time zones within reason.

**Qualifications**:
**What you will be doing**:

- Work with product management, product owners, and business owners to help assure execution alignment for agile teams
- Facilitates agile team execution and feature completion tracking for up to two agile teams
- Arrange and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, iteration planning, backlog grooming, and demo/retro. Ensure quick inspection and proper use of agile processes
- Work with other agile release train teams enterprise-wide to remove impediments and manage dependencies
- Helps manage risk and dependencies
- Create, modify, publish and leverage standardized agile metrics to facilitate continuous improvement on the agile team
- Reinforces key principles of a continuous learning culture and team and technical agility leveraging best practices and fine-tuned facilitation techniques
- Other duties as assigned

**Skills and experience that are important for this role**:

- 2-5 years of experience working as a scrum master required
- Experience on an agile release train working under the Scaled Agile Framework _preferred_
- Proven experience managing multiple agile teams
- Effective collaborator and servant leader
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree or appropriate combination of education and experience in essential duties and responsibilities
- Intermediate understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework
- Advanced computer skills and proficiency in administrative tools such as MS Office, Google Sheets, etc.
- Certifications in the Scaled Agile Framework _preferred_
- Experience working directly with agile sales teams, _preferred_

**Hours**:

- Part-Time (Up to 20 hours a week)
- Flexibility to work overnight hours during PI Planning required

Additional Information
**Why Scaled Agile?**

We are a growing organization with a proven revenue model with the opportunity to be the global market leader in software and systems development knowledgeware. Scaled Agile is a company for people who love technology environments, Methodologies and are always thinking about how they can improve things.

We are a group of seasoned professionals and systems thinkers passionate about our mission to continuously unlock better ways of working by providing the world’s most trusted system for Business Agility.

**If you are looking for an opportunity to contribute to the direction and success of a vibrant business, we'd love to hear from you.