Scrum Master

In 2011 SkySlope started out in the third bedroom of our CEO’s house with just him and two others. Every year since then we’ve experienced insane growth and after growing out of our previous 3 offices we have now settled into our new home in downtown Sacramento only two blocks away from the new arena and right in the heart of the action. The team has now grown from the original 3 to over 180 and our new space allows us to aggressively move towards our goal of being 200 strong by the end of 2019.

By the power of an amazing product and tons of Red Bull we now have over 200,000 users spread out across 5000 offices nationwide. We’ve been successful because we obsess over building cutting edge software that makes the Real Estate world a better place. 8 out of the top 15 Real Estate Brokerages in the nation are currently using software in order to be paperless and all 8 of them use our product. But, despite being happy with what we’ve achieved we know that as industry leaders in our space there’s a lot of work left to be done. Because of that, in October 2017 we announced that SkySlope will become a part of the Fidelity National Financial (NYSE: FNF) family. This partnership will allow us to not only grow faster than we ever have before, but it will also allow us to build exciting new products for our customers while maintaining the same broker and agent-centric approach that we’ve become known for over the years.

Click the links below to get a detailed look into the company culture that earned us the reward of “best places to work in Sacramento” three years in a row by Sacramento Business Journal!

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SkySlope Instagram: https://bit.ly/2YstJW3

INTRODUCTION

SkySlope is looking for a talented scrum master who is passionate about technology and agile practices. You will lead the agile/scrum practice, leading sprint teams into successful completion of sprints. You will also work with product owners and leadership to facilitate conversations within and outside of the sprint teams.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Be the Agile champion and guide one or more teams in adoption of agile/scrum principles
• Monitor team activity and guides workload commitments
• Remove ambiguity by connecting with external teams or individuals so sprint progresses on schedule
• Shield the team from external interferences that can jeopardize sprint goals
• Keep team members engaged, involved and informed
• Maintain data integrity, completeness and accuracy in team tools for work tracking and reporting
• Ensures effective and efficient meetings such as stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, release planning and retrospectives
• Promotes collective ownership of story completion and sprint goals
• Ensure team understands and commits to specific sprint goals and follows through accordingly
• Provide consistent and periodic project status to senior management
• Escalate impediments that cannot be resolved by the sprint team
• Manage project for the engineering team
• Coordinate cross-functional meetings to create project plans, release plans and other artifacts as needed

Requirements

• Scrum Master experience within web engineering and familiar with product launch cycles
• Highly motivated, self-driven and passionate about delivering great experiences
• Structured and efficient in planning and coordination of projects and sprints
• Ability to be the agile leader for the sprint and extended team, focusing on best-practices and principles
• Mentor sprint teams and external members on agile/scrum principles
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Expertise with various agile and software development tools (e.g. JIRA)
• Demonstrable history of leading various agile/scrum projects for cross-functional and highly matrixed organizations
• Able to influence and coach senior leadership on continually growing the agile practice

Benefits

• Perks
  • Catered lunches Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
  • Unlimited snacks and drinks
  • Dog friendly office
  • $125 monthly transportation stipend
  • $100 monthly wellness allowance (to be used for gym memberships, yoga, golf fees, ski lift tickets, massages + more!)
  • Monthly e-book stipend
  • $1000 referral bonuses
• PTO and other time off
  • 15 PTO days per year
  • 16 paid holidays per year (5 floating to be used at any time)
  • Paid day off on your birthday (plus $100 in spending cash)
  • Annual company Kick Off Party
  • Annual company Employee Appreciation Day
• Insurance Offerings
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Company paid Life Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • 4 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
  • Pet Insurance
• Retirement and Investment
  • 401k + match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan opportunities