Freelance Scrum Master (Americas)

Scrum Master Role

We are looking for a Scrum Master to join Human Made. This role involves creating self-organizing teams that are flexible and fully productive during sprints, with the goal of creating high-performing teams. Key responsibilities include:

• Applying Scrum To Produce High Quality Work
• Managing each project’s scope and timeline
• Create and maintain a team culture that facilitates a shared responsibility for successful delivery
• Guide the team on principles and practice of the agile framework being used in the project
• Work with the team to help define and refine project scope, estimates, and resource requirements for projects
• Prepare and facilitate workshops to establish project needs and relationships
• Facilitate meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing
• Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments
• Avoid scope changes and communicate to stakeholders as appropriate
• Identify when to use experiments for learning and solutioning

Accountability To The Business:

• Be commercially aware: Understand the status of the budget of your projects and be able to report on them back to the company
• Allocate project needs in conjunction with your squad composition

Building And Safeguarding Relationships:

• Facilitate wider engagement with internal and external stakeholders, and partners engaged in delivery
• Build a partnership relationship with clients, understanding their business imperatives as context for helping align the team on those goals
• Understand the workings and needs of the account you are partnered with
• Communicate regularly; be proactive in facing difficult conversations
• Manage your interactions with clients and internal team professionally, and personally

Striving For Great Work:

• Develop creative and technical judgement and strive for high-quality output
• Share progress and communicate to internal and external stakeholders
• Conduct team reviews and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement
• Endorse and present appropriate metrics to sustain continuous improvement to get the best out of each team
• Report progress, team status, and issues across the board

Requirements

• Scrum Master certification or qualification, or equivalent work experience
• Experience applying scrum, a wider awareness of agile principles, and a data-driven mindset
• Enterprise agency environment experience
• Highly developed skills in servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Experience in using a wide range of project management tools such as, budget/time tracking tools and issue tracking software with the depth of knowledge to recommend the right tools for a project
• Proficiency in written and oral communication in English, and ability to utilize and parse through technical terminology comfortably
• Broad understanding of web technologies such as HTML/HTML5, CSS, CMS, Javascript, and version control

Benefits

• Gain experience working in an agency, without a long-term commitment
• Work alongside some of the WordPress industry's top engineers
• Access to Slack channels which will open up plenty of opportunities to network with other WordPress peers at Human Made
• The opportunity to explore Human Made with the potential of becoming a full-time employee