Risepoint
Sr Scrum Master
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Product Development
🗓️ September 16th, 2024
Risepoint assists primarily regional universities in increasing their access and impact by making their academic programs available to students online. Founded in 2007, Risepoint's mission is to expand access to high-quality, affordable, and workforce-relevant education, especially for working and adult students. Risepoint brings single-minded dedication to student success, an integrated set of services, and data-driven performance to our collaboration with university partners.
A Day in the Life:
The essential functions of this role are as follows:
- Exhibits leadership and helps build high-performing teams
- Facilitates daily scrum meetings/ceremonies and monitors progress against sprint commitments
- Actively participates in sprint planning and gains commitment from the team based on team capacity
- Coordinates with members within the team and across teams during grooming sessions
- Coaches team members and ensures understanding and adherence to processes, with quality
- Collaborates, communicates dependencies, and builds relationships with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners
- Ensures that releases are being deployed on schedule and tracked according to established procedures
- Facilitates the removal of impediments, addresses issues/blockages, and helps minimize disruptions for team members
- Seeks regular input from team members, and implements changes to improve efficiency and increase productivity
- Reports the progress and highlights any risks/issues to leadership
- Facilitates large, cross-functional group meetings and planning sessions.
- Administration and training for our Agile Tool
- Provides mentorship to junior members of the team and other Scrum Masters, along with advocating for Agile best practices
What You’ll Need for Success:
You must meet the following requirements to be considered for employment:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- At least 5 years of Scrum Master experience
- Experience working with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is preferred
- Experience with Digital.ai Agility tool or similar tool is preferred
- Prior experience supporting business applications is preferred
- SCRUM training/certification preferred
- Experience managing team members in different time zones
- Prior technology background within the areas of development, testing, or other SDLC experience
- Experience working in a higher education environment is preferred.
- Detail-oriented with respect to documentation and communication; able to express complex concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing to
- Strong relationship-building skills; comfortable interacting with stakeholders at all levels throughout the business.
- Good listening skills, with the ability to uncover underlying needs.
- Must have a desire to achieve excellent project outcomes and exceed stakeholder expectations.
- Works independently with limited supervision, coordinating assigned tasks to closure.
- Must have experience working with cross-functional teams.
- Understanding of software development life cycle methodologies. (Waterfall, Iterative, AGILE)
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Word required.
Risepoint is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Risepoint offers the following comprehensive benefits:
- 18 days PTO + Winter Shutdown
- 12 designated holidays + 1 floating holiday
- Medical – four options
- Dental
- Vision
- Life & Disability (company paid)
- Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account
- Retirement plan with company match
- Maternity / Paternity / Parental Leave (company paid)
- Volunteer Time Off
Supplemental Benefits:
- Wellness program
- Alternative medicine options
- Pet discounts
- Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity
Personal and Professional Development:
- Continuous Professional and Leadership Development Programs
- Tuition Reimbursement for employees and their dependents
- Rewards & Recognition programs
Risepoint is an equal-opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive workforce.
