Scrum Master II
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive info, no invented or summarizing away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "This position will be posted until filled." maybe not needed? It's not a section; it's a line. Could be considered filler? It's not a heading; we can keep as paragraph? It's not essential but it's not boilerplate. Might keep as part of description? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should keep that line if it's substantive? It's about posting duration; maybe not essential but it's info. However they said remove duplicated lines and application instructions. This line is not application instruction. Could keep as a
. But we need to decide.
We need sections: About the role (they have a heading "About the Role" then description). Responsibilities (they have "Responsibilities About the Role" then bullet list). Actually they have "Responsibilities About the Role" then bullet list. So we can have About the role section (maybe combine with responsibilities?). But they said use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need separate headings for About the role and Responsibilities. The posting includes "About the Role" then bullet list of responsibilities. So we can put About the role heading with a paragraph summarizing? But we must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to preserve all substantive info. If we put a paragraph, we need to include the description text exactly? The description after "About the Role" is: "The Scrum Master II is a servant leader that supports the development team and product owner to increase business agility and maximize value delivered." That's a sentence. Then "In This Role You Will" then bullet list. So we could put that sentence in a
under About the role heading. Then Responsibilities heading with
- list of the bullet items.
Qualifications: they have "What makes You an ideal candidate?" then bullet list of qualifications. Also "Additional Knowledge And Skills" about AI. Also "Work Experience & Education" then bullet list of experience/education. Also "Licenses and Certifications". So we need to decide sections: Qualifications (maybe combine all qualification-like content). Could also have separate sections for Experience & Education, Licenses and Certifications. But they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine qualifications, experience, licenses into a Qualifications section with lists.
Benefits: they have "What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays." That's specific benefits. So we need Benefits section with list.
Pay: they have "Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility." That's vague but it's specific statement. It says "Competitive pay and bonus eligibility." That's not a specific number but it's still content. The instruction: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Here they state "Competitive pay and bonus eligibility." That's not filler like "commensurate with experience"? It's somewhat vague but it's still a statement. I'd say it's acceptable to include Pay section with that sentence.
Schedule: they have "Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office." That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section with that sentence.
Also there is "Working Conditions" bullet list: Subject to stressful situations, Possibility of working long hours may be required, Limited travel may be required to support business needs. That could be part of Responsibilities or a separate section? Not in the list of headings but we could include under Responsibilities or maybe a separate "Working Conditions" but not required. Since they didn't list that as a heading option, we could incorporate into Responsibilities as a list item? But it's not a duty. Could be its own section but not in allowed headings. Probably better to put under Responsibilities as additional items? However the instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but they gave examples. Safer to stick to those headings. So we can include Working Conditions as part of Responsibilities (maybe as a bullet). Or we could add a separate section "Working Conditions" but not in examples; risk. I'll include under Responsibilities as bullet items.
Also note: "NOTE: We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position This position is not open to agency submissions #GMFJobs" - that's boilerplate? It's a note about eligibility. Might be considered not substantive? It's a restriction. Could be considered substantive but it's like a note. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This note is not exactly those but could be considered a restriction. Might keep as a paragraph under maybe a section? Not sure. I'd keep it as a paragraph after Qualifications maybe? But it's not a heading. Could be a
without heading. The instruction: Output ONLY the HTML fragment. It didn't forbid stray paragraphs without heading. So we can include a
for that note.
Also "Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters." That's under "Why GM Financial?" earlier. Could be included as a paragraph under maybe About the role? But it's more about company. Could be included as a paragraph under About the role? Might be considered filler. But it's substantive info about company purpose. I'd include as a paragraph under About the role heading before the role description.
Let's structure:
About the role
Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.
The Scrum Master II is a servant leader that supports the development team and product owner to increase business agility and maximize value delivered.
Responsibilities
- Guiding and coaching the Scrum Teams on how to apply agile values and principles, and use the Scrum Framework to delight customers
- Protect the development team from outside influences and remove impediments
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and ordering the product backlog
- Working closely with the Product Owner to ensure product backlog is visible and prioritized towards business value
- Facilitating various Scrum events such as: Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
- Empowering the team to be self-organized
- Subject to stressful situations
- Possibility of working long hours may be required
- Limited travel may be required to support business needs
Qualifications
What makes You an ideal candidate?
- Must exhibit strong knowledge of agile frameworks including Scrum from multiple teams/products
- Demonstrated evidence of a servant leadership mindset
- Proficient in the use of Agile delivery tools such as TFS, Jira or Azure DevOps
- Demonstrated evidence of continuous learning mindset
- Ability to teach and train on Agile, Scrum, Kanban at a level accessible to beginners and dive deep for advanced topics
- A change agent; progressively challenging the team to continuously improve
- Good understanding of product and sprint backlog tracking, burn down metrics and velocity
- Good negotiation, leadership, and written and verbal communication skills
- Good knowledge, skills, and ability working in a collaborative team environment
- Excellent people skills, with an ability to understand and diverse viewpoints
- High Emotional Intelligence (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills)
- Ability to understand GM Financials business; apply knowledge and critical thinking skills in day-to-day problems and solutions
- Ability to facilitate, coach and guide through influence, inspiration, collaboration and teamwork
- Ability to listen and communicate effectively with others both verbally and in writing
- Ability to coach and train Agile teams about their role before, during and after PI Planning
- Establish DoR, DoD with teams and Product owner on Story and Feature level wherever applicable
- Support Release Train Engineer, IT Lead and business leaders by facilitating all the SAFe ceremonies including PI Planning, SOS, PO sync, inspect and adapt
- Provides coaching and training to the Agile Team(s) on how to execute the Scrum framework
Additional Knowledge And Skills
- Working effectively within an AI enabled environment: Ability to use AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) to support daily work
- Skills in evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, compliance, and bias
- Experience integrating AI into workflows to improve efficiency or insights
- Familiarity with AI assisted research, summarization, and content generation
- Understanding of responsible AI use, including ethics and data protection
Work Experience & Education
- 2-4 years experience as Scrum Master
- High School Diploma or equivalent Required
- Associate Degree
- Bachelor’s Degree or additional equivalent work or military experience Preferred
- Master’s Degree
Licenses and Certifications
- Scrum Master Certification (CSM or PSM) or PMI-ACP
Benefits
- 401K matching
- Bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid)
- Tuition assistance
- Training
- GM employee auto discount
- Community service pay
- Nine company holidays
Pay
Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.
Schedule
Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office.
NOTE: We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position. This position is not open to agency submissions #GMFJobs
Check for any duplicated lines: we have not repeated. Ensure no boilerplate like "This position will be posted until filled." We omitted that. That's okay.
Make sure we didn't include any heading with empty content. All headings have content
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive info, no invented or summarizing away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "This position will be posted until filled." maybe not needed? It's not a section; it's a line. Could be considered filler? It's not a heading; we can keep as paragraph? It's not essential but it's not boilerplate. Might keep as part of description? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should keep that line if it's substantive? It's about posting duration; maybe not essential but it's info. However they said remove duplicated lines and application instructions. This line is not application instruction. Could keep as a
. But we need to decide. We need sections: About the role (they have a heading "About the Role" then description). Responsibilities (they have "Responsibilities About the Role" then bullet list). Actually they have "Responsibilities About the Role" then bullet list. So we can have About the role section (maybe combine with responsibilities?). But they said use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need separate headings for About the role and Responsibilities. The posting includes "About the Role" then bullet list of responsibilities. So we can put About the role heading with a paragraph summarizing? But we must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to preserve all substantive info. If we put a paragraph, we need to include the description text exactly? The description after "About the Role" is: "The Scrum Master II is a servant leader that supports the development team and product owner to increase business agility and maximize value delivered." That's a sentence. Then "In This Role You Will" then bullet list. So we could put that sentence in a
under About the role heading. Then Responsibilities heading with
- list of the bullet items.
Qualifications: they have "What makes You an ideal candidate?" then bullet list of qualifications. Also "Additional Knowledge And Skills" about AI. Also "Work Experience & Education" then bullet list of experience/education. Also "Licenses and Certifications". So we need to decide sections: Qualifications (maybe combine all qualification-like content). Could also have separate sections for Experience & Education, Licenses and Certifications. But they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine qualifications, experience, licenses into a Qualifications section with lists.
Benefits: they have "What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays." That's specific benefits. So we need Benefits section with list.
Pay: they have "Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility." That's vague but it's specific statement. It says "Competitive pay and bonus eligibility." That's not a specific number but it's still content. The instruction: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Here they state "Competitive pay and bonus eligibility." That's not filler like "commensurate with experience"? It's somewhat vague but it's still a statement. I'd say it's acceptable to include Pay section with that sentence.
Schedule: they have "Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office." That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section with that sentence.
Also there is "Working Conditions" bullet list: Subject to stressful situations, Possibility of working long hours may be required, Limited travel may be required to support business needs. That could be part of Responsibilities or a separate section? Not in the list of headings but we could include under Responsibilities or maybe a separate "Working Conditions" but not required. Since they didn't list that as a heading option, we could incorporate into Responsibilities as a list item? But it's not a duty. Could be its own section but not in allowed headings. Probably better to put under Responsibilities as additional items? However the instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but they gave examples. Safer to stick to those headings. So we can include Working Conditions as part of Responsibilities (maybe as a bullet). Or we could add a separate section "Working Conditions" but not in examples; risk. I'll include under Responsibilities as bullet items. Also note: "NOTE: We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position This position is not open to agency submissions #GMFJobs" - that's boilerplate? It's a note about eligibility. Might be considered not substantive? It's a restriction. Could be considered substantive but it's like a note. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This note is not exactly those but could be considered a restriction. Might keep as a paragraph under maybe a section? Not sure. I'd keep it as a paragraph after Qualifications maybe? But it's not a heading. Could be a
without heading. The instruction: Output ONLY the HTML fragment. It didn't forbid stray paragraphs without heading. So we can include a
for that note. Also "Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters." That's under "Why GM Financial?" earlier. Could be included as a paragraph under maybe About the role? But it's more about company. Could be included as a paragraph under About the role? Might be considered filler. But it's substantive info about company purpose. I'd include as a paragraph under About the role heading before the role description. Let's structure:
About the role
Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.
The Scrum Master II is a servant leader that supports the development team and product owner to increase business agility and maximize value delivered.
Responsibilities
- Guiding and coaching the Scrum Teams on how to apply agile values and principles, and use the Scrum Framework to delight customers
- Protect the development team from outside influences and remove impediments
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining and ordering the product backlog
- Working closely with the Product Owner to ensure product backlog is visible and prioritized towards business value
- Facilitating various Scrum events such as: Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
- Empowering the team to be self-organized
- Subject to stressful situations
- Possibility of working long hours may be required
- Limited travel may be required to support business needs
Qualifications
What makes You an ideal candidate?
- Must exhibit strong knowledge of agile frameworks including Scrum from multiple teams/products
- Demonstrated evidence of a servant leadership mindset
- Proficient in the use of Agile delivery tools such as TFS, Jira or Azure DevOps
- Demonstrated evidence of continuous learning mindset
- Ability to teach and train on Agile, Scrum, Kanban at a level accessible to beginners and dive deep for advanced topics
- A change agent; progressively challenging the team to continuously improve
- Good understanding of product and sprint backlog tracking, burn down metrics and velocity
- Good negotiation, leadership, and written and verbal communication skills
- Good knowledge, skills, and ability working in a collaborative team environment
- Excellent people skills, with an ability to understand and diverse viewpoints
- High Emotional Intelligence (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills)
- Ability to understand GM Financials business; apply knowledge and critical thinking skills in day-to-day problems and solutions
- Ability to facilitate, coach and guide through influence, inspiration, collaboration and teamwork
- Ability to listen and communicate effectively with others both verbally and in writing
- Ability to coach and train Agile teams about their role before, during and after PI Planning
- Establish DoR, DoD with teams and Product owner on Story and Feature level wherever applicable
- Support Release Train Engineer, IT Lead and business leaders by facilitating all the SAFe ceremonies including PI Planning, SOS, PO sync, inspect and adapt
- Provides coaching and training to the Agile Team(s) on how to execute the Scrum framework
Additional Knowledge And Skills
- Working effectively within an AI enabled environment: Ability to use AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) to support daily work
- Skills in evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, compliance, and bias
- Experience integrating AI into workflows to improve efficiency or insights
- Familiarity with AI assisted research, summarization, and content generation
- Understanding of responsible AI use, including ethics and data protection
Work Experience & Education
- 2-4 years experience as Scrum Master
- High School Diploma or equivalent Required
- Associate Degree
- Bachelor’s Degree or additional equivalent work or military experience Preferred
- Master’s Degree
Licenses and Certifications
- Scrum Master Certification (CSM or PSM) or PMI-ACP
Benefits
- 401K matching
- Bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid)
- Tuition assistance
- Training
- GM employee auto discount
- Community service pay
- Nine company holidays
Pay
Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.
Schedule
Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office.
NOTE: We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position. This position is not open to agency submissions #GMFJobs
Check for any duplicated lines: we have not repeated. Ensure no boilerplate like "This position will be posted until filled." We omitted that. That's okay. Make sure we didn't include any heading with empty content. All headings have content