Scrum Master

Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid) – 5-month contract with possible extension.

About the role

Embrace the agile mindset, advocate and champion agile across the Technology organization by challenging, coaching, and guiding teams using agile principles. Provide creative solutions to agile transformation issues such as resistance to change, limited resources, conflicting priorities, and lack of accountability. Utilize agile methods flexibly, often incorporating traditional project management with hard deadlines or fixed dates. Understand various agile frameworks, events, and artifacts (e.g., Scrum, Kanban), assess their fit, and implement them with new and existing teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage and facilitate team events including quarterly product planning, product owner syncs, backlog refinement, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate and coach teams to draft, track progress, and continuously improve on Objective and Key Results (OKRs).
• Coach teams and leaders in agile principles, practices, roles, responsibilities, and frameworks.
• Foster a continuous improvement environment to build high-performing, agile teams.
• Track and report on metrics to measure progress, effectiveness of agile adoption, and agile maturity of teams.
• Guide product management teams in defining MVPs, developing product charters, product community maps, product roadmaps, release plans, story mapping, writing stories, and backlog prioritization and management.
• Train and mentor other Agilists and participate in communities of practice to share, learn, and grow.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Five or more years of experience in Agile technology delivery.
• Five or more years of experience in Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) teams.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Agile values, principles, and practices, and Scaled Agile frameworks.
• Ability to drive delivery and take initiative.
• Excellent interpersonal skills (communication, collaboration, leadership, conflict resolution).
• Experience as an Agilist managing multiple teams simultaneously.
• Experience with agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Dragonboat, MURAL.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification or similar (a plus).
• Ability to influence others, implement change, and standardize processes in a complex business environment.
• Passion for mentoring and growing the potential of others.
• Positive attitude and ability to inspire teams toward continuous improvement.
• Experience with outcomes-based planning and delivery (e.g., OKR).
• Ability to partner with Product, Tech, UX, and other disciplines.
• Experience with Product Discovery tactics.
• Direct experience with big room / quarterly product planning and cross-team coordination.
• Understanding of iterative and incremental development fundamentals.
• Experience successfully delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule.
• Ability to work in ambiguity and iterate to a solution—can estimate and solve basic business problems without explicit direction.
• Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change and evolve.
• Demonstrated program-level collaboration and system architecture understanding.
• Experience in business analysis, product management, or product development.

Pay

$60–64 per hour on W2 (rate dependent on experience).

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans).
• Supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity).
• 401(k) retirement savings.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee assistance program and legal support.
• Auto, home, and pet insurance.
• Employee discounts with preferred vendors.