Scrum Master III
Upbound Group · Plano, TX · 6 days ago
EngineeringFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Agile enablement and delivery execution across multiple complex teams and strategic initiatives, ensuring teams deliver value effectively while continuously improving how they work.
- Coach teams, Product Owners, and leaders on Agile principles, organizational effectiveness, team dynamics, and sustainable delivery practices.
- Drive Agile maturity and continuous improvement initiatives by applying Agile frameworks, principles, and practical experience in ways that best support team and organizational outcomes.
- Help teams improve flow, focus, collaboration, predictability, and delivery performance while balancing discipline with adaptability.
- Foster a culture of psychological safety, accountability, learning, transparency, and continuous improvement across teams and stakeholder groups.
- Influence and evolve Agile practices across the organization, serving as a mentor to Scrum Masters and a trusted advisor to leadership on Agile ways of working.
Delivery Excellence
- Support teams and leaders in navigating complex dependencies, delivery risks, organizational challenges, and cross-functional coordination to improve execution and business outcomes.
- Facilitate quarterly planning, large-scale coordination efforts, and strategic alignment discussions that improve clarity, decision-making, and delivery predictability while minimizing unnecessary process overhead.
- Leverage delivery metrics and team health indicators to identify trends, bottlenecks, systemic impediments, and opportunities for continuous improvement, using data to drive learning and performance rather than simply reporting status.
- Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate complex delivery challenges, translating risks, constraints, and tradeoffs into clear business impacts and actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
- Establish and drive delivery performance improvement initiatives that enhance flow, predictability, collaboration, team effectiveness, and overall delivery outcomes across teams and programs.
Agile Coaching & Mentorship
- Mentor Junior and mid-level Scrum Masters in facilitation, coaching, stakeholder engagement, delivery leadership, and adaptive Agile practices.
- Support the onboarding, development, and ongoing growth of Scrum Masters by sharing practical experience, proven techniques, and real-world lessons learned.
- Provide guidance on facilitation, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, team dynamics, and delivery excellence to improve individual and team effectiveness.
- Introduce innovative ideas, industry best practices, and diverse Agile approaches to strengthen team performance, organizational effectiveness, and delivery outcomes.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and professional development, encouraging collaboration and recognizing that valuable ideas can originate from any level of the organization.
Transformation & Organizational Impact
- Partner with leadership to evolve Agile ways of working across teams and organizations, driving improvements that enhance delivery effectiveness, collaboration, and business outcomes.
- Influence Agile standards, practices, and operating models by balancing Agile principles, organizational needs, and practical experience rather than enforcing rigid framework compliance.
- Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives that reduce organizational friction, strengthen collaboration, and improve execution across teams and stakeholder groups.
- Guide teams and leaders in continuously inspecting and adapting how Agile is applied, recognizing that different teams, products, and environments may require different approaches to achieve optimal results.
- Serve as a catalyst for Agile maturity and organizational transformation by promoting outcome-driven practices, adaptability, continuous learning, and team effectiveness.
Capacity & Delivery Awareness
- Help teams and leaders align commitments with realistic capacity and sustainable delivery expectations.
- Support healthy planning conversations that balance demand, focus, and team constraints.
- Maintain awareness of how delivery commitments, tradeoffs, and risks affect execution and broader business outcomes.
- Support estimation practices that align work commitments with team capacity.
- Collaborate with leadership on capacity and demand planning.
- Maintain awareness of how delivery commitments impact financial planning and reporting.