Scrum Master

About the role

We're hiring our first dedicated Scrum Master to own the delivery cadence across four teams. You'll establish a consistent, healthy "Scrum at Chalice" - facilitating the teams, protecting their focus, and coaching the organization toward better delivery. You’ll act as a facilitator, not a manager: you own how the teams deliver, not what they build.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the ceremonies: run daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews across the three Scrum teams, and own retrospectives for all four.
• Schedule and safeguard each event and keep it in its allocated timebox.
• Close and open sprints: administer sprint close/open in Jira, roll over unfinished work, and set up clean sprints (As the PO accepts the work and sets the next goal).
• Run Forward Deployed as Kanban: manage continuous flow with WIP limits, queue replenishment, and onshore-offshore timing rather than sprints.
• Remove impediments: actively clear within-team blockers; escalate cross-team dependencies to the Technical Project Manager.
• Track team health and flow: monitor velocity, cycle time, carryover, and WIP to find where teams are lagging, and watch team morale and sustainability.
• Coach and standardize: coach teams and Product Owners on agile practice and drive continuous improvement, so "Scrum at Chalice" means the same thing on every team.
• Shield the teams: protect developers from mid-sprint scope churn and internal-request noise.
• Support backlog hygiene: facilitate effective grooming so backlogs stay healthy (the Product Owner owns content and priority).

What You Should Bring

• 3 years as a Scrum Master facilitating multiple delivery teams concurrently.
• Fluency in both Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong leadership and facilitation: coaching, conflict resolution, and influence without authority.
• Comfort in a technical engineering environment (software, SRE/DevOps, data, and ML/data-science teams) — you don't need to code, but you should be at ease with technical work.
• A metrics-driven approach to team health and continuous improvement, with hands-on Jira experience.
• Bonus: fast-scaling startup experience, and programmatic advertising / ad-tech exposure.
• Certifications Preferred, not required: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II), or equivalent.

Why Chalice?

• Joining Chalice means being at the forefront of AI for advertising, working in a dynamic environment that encourages creativity, growth, and innovation.
• We value diversity, collaboration, and dedication to making a meaningful impact in the advertising landscape.
• Chalice is a profitable early-stage company with funding from industry insiders including Trade Desk’s TD7 Ventures and Aperiam Ventures.
• Our clients range from Fortune 100 companies and the world’s largest advertising agencies to up-and-coming brands and independent agencies across the globe.
• We are a team of non-conformist, independent thinkers.
• We are committed to diversity of thought, background, and experience, and creating psychological safety for all to thrive.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• 401(k) options
• Unlimited PTO
• 11 Company Holidays
• Office-wide closure between Christmas Eve and New Year’s

Compensation Range

$130K - $145K