Scrum Master/Project Manager

Business Overview:

We’re changing the game here at TimePayment – leading the marketplace in technical innovation and delivering award winning service and support to our passionate network of manufacturers and distributors. With industry growth in over 30 key markets, our nationwide coverage has developed a core following that borders on fanatical. Why? Because we truly deliver on our promise to provide our customers “a better way to sell”. This unique, proven product, process and methodology enables our over 9,000 partners to significantly expand their customer base while measurably accelerating their cash cycle. Our aggressive growth plans mean we’ve got to stay on the edge of technology and innovation, and to constantly look for dynamic professionals that can add to our capabilities and vision. Are you someone that can help?

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Website: http://www.timepayment.com

Job Summary:

TimePayment is seeking a sharp and eager Scrum Master to join our team to help manage the evolution of our many innovative web applications.In addition to technical skills, you must be a team player, a focused, motivated problem-solver, and diligent about maintaining development best-practices.

Key Responsibilities:
Role and Responsibilities
– Must be in Burlington, MA office Monday – Friday

· Help the team quickly make visible, remove and prevent blockers/impediments to progress

· Support and coach the team in whatever activities are required to regularly deliver shippable increments of product (fully tested, deployed, documented, being used by a customer)

· Help the team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items, and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria

· Ensure the team’s progress toward customer and business goals, and artefacts representing this, are visible and transparent to all stakeholders

· Understand and practice agility

· Foster and encourage face-to-face conversation and collaboration

· Ensure that all Scrum events are happening

· Help the team evolve their “Definition of Ready” and “Definition of Done” to incrementally improve quality of customer outcomes and traceability to business outcomes

· Ensure the team’s process is visible and understood by all team members

· Ensure the team’s “system” – i.e. Lead Time, Cycle Time for various types of work and WIP limits as appropriate – is understood by the team and stakeholders

· Influence the team toward a continuous improvement and experimentation culture for both product and process, ensuring that each Sprint becomes more effective and enjoyable

· Encourage and coach team ownership of their process, task wall and workspace

· Coach the team in self-organization and cross-functionality

· Help the team create high-value products and services

Position Requirements
· Servant Leader – Must be able to garner respect from her/his team and be willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done

· Communicative and Social – Must be able to communicate well with teams

· Facilitative – Must be able to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team

· Assertive – Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.

· Situationally Aware – Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management as needed

· Enthusiastic – Must be high-energy

· Continual Improvement – Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team

· Conflict Resolution – Must be able to facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches

· Attitude of Empowerment – Must be able to lead a team to self-organization

· Attitude of Transparency – Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow business trust
Experience Requirements
· Experience working in an agile environment is a must:

o Facilitation of Scrum processes, e.g. daily stand ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews and retrospectives

o Identify, escalate and remove impediments to sprint goals Creation of data-driven reporting each sprint to show team progress and maturity to provide transparency to the team and executives

o Guiding and coaching the team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values, and how to get the most out of self-organization

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• Agile: 5 years (Required)
• Salesforce: 3 years (Required)
• Scrum Master: 5 years (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Preferred)

Location:

• Burlington, MA (Required)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Work Location:

• One location

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off

This Company Describes Its Culture as:

• Detail-oriented — quality and precision-focused
• Innovative — innovative and risk-taking
• People-oriented — supportive and fairness-focused