Scrum Master

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Company: Platform Science
Location: San Diego, CA

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Interested in joining one of San Diego’s top tech startups as a Scrum Master to help revolutionize the transportation industry?

Who you are:

We are looking for a qualified Scrum Master to work directly with our product team to enhance our mobile and web applications within our existing and new SaaS product offerings.


Responsibilities:

  • Scrum Master is responsible for facilitating Agile ceremonies: daily scrum, sprint planning, product backlog refinement, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.
  • Possesses conflict resolution by focusing on Scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.
  • Should be a friendly servant leader with strong communication skills.
  • Should be a good coach in Agile practices and can coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
  • Help teams or individuals to clarify goals and actions to achieve them.
  • Strong commitment to identify, plan, implement, and track continuous team and organizational improvements.
  • Ability to shield the team from outside distractions and interferences.
  • Ability to ensure the correct use of Agile processes and frameworks.
  • Ability to track and remove impediments.
  • Needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source.
  • Constantly challenge the status quo to identify and implement innovative improvement opportunities.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of other Agile approaches, such as: Kanban, Lean, BDD, XP, etc.
  • Strong coaching skills to educate teams on how to implement and follow Agile frameworks.
  • Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
  • Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules, and practices.
  • Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, so that he/she can explain other methodologies to motivate the team.
  • Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs.
  • Applicant should have knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, etc.
  • Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
  • Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories, work in progress limits, throughput, cycle times, etc.
  • Familiar with common development practices, Service oriented environments, and Agile practices.
  • Certified Scrum Master or PMP
  • We are an Atlassian shop, so Jira and Confluence skills are highly desirable.

Benefits


What you get by joining Platform Science:

  • Culture

    • Fast growing company with endless opportunity
    • Fun and energetic team fostering creativity and innovation
    • Work in a fast-paced development environment where you will see the results of your work immediately
    • Work with an intelligent team and solve meaningful problems
    • Exposure and experience working within a broad technology stack
    • Team learning Fridays
    • Office outings to celebrate achievements
    • Casual dress
    • Flexible hours
  • Location
    • We are a San Diego made company
    • Just a few short miles from the beach
    • 266 days of Sunshine a year
    • Located in the growing UTC area
    • New office with top floor views
  • Food
    • Snacks all day, every day
    • On-tap Cold Brew and Kombucha
    • Catered lunch every Friday
    • Walking distance from UTC mall and a variety of other local restaurants
  • Health and Wellness
    • Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurance (some options 100% covered by PS)
    • Free membership to on-site gym
    • Bi-Weekly Chair Massage
    • Optional standing desks
  • Time off
    • 12 paid Holidays
    • 15 vacation days
    • 3 sick days
  • Compensation
    • Competitive base salary
    • 401(k) plan
    • Cell/data reimbursement plan
    • Eligible for participation in employee stock option plan

Who we are:

Founded in 2015, Platform Science replaces legacy telematics solutions with a revolutionary IoT ecosystem designed to unlock the value of disconnected data streams throughout the transportation and logistics industry. Partnering with industry leaders across the supply chain, Platform Science has developed tools that provide first-of-their-kind solutions to today’s problems, and an unlimited canvas to innovate and create new solutions as our customer’s needs, business, and industries evolve. At a time when both regulation and innovation are causing change at a pace never seen before, Platform Science was built to arm its customers with the tools to compete with change, and come out ahead.

VC backed and collaboratively developed with international leaders in supply chain logistics, we are well positioned to disrupt both the $20B fleet management sector and over $10T dollar logistics space. With over 100 million miles on the road we are in production deployment infusing cutting edge technology into an industry primed for innovation.

Based out of San Diego our team is composed of product development experts, data scientists, leading software/hardware technologist and transportation industry veterans . We have embraced San Diego as home base for innovation, real world vehicle testing and as the natural playground we love. Our diverse team embraces creative thinking as we pride ourselves as collaborative force for innovation in IoT.

https://www.platformscience.com/