Scrum Master

Bigger challenges. Bolder ideas. Global impact. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. We’re the company behind the world’s fastest satellite internet service, with technology that’s helping to bridge the digital divide and improve life for our customers around the globe. By providing powerful new ways for people to connect with one another, gain greater access to education, entertainment, medical research, commerce, and much more, our team is empowering millions of customers worldwide.

We’re growing rapidly and looking for passionate, innovative professionals to join our team and connect the world to more. You’ll work in a collaborative and inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives and continuous learning, and provides industry-leading benefits with unmatched opportunities for career growth. Our team is fearless in pursuit of new ideas and uncompromising in our quest to become the world’s first truly global Internet Service Provider. Interested in joining our mission? Take a look at career opportunities at Viasat today.

To support our satellite business that is focused on providing world-class Global Business Solutions, we are creating cloud-based platforms to enable quickly adding capabilities that delight our B2B customers. A key component of this plan is the need to bring in leaders that can coach, motivate, identify constraints and impediments early, collaborate, coordinating and celebrating success. Our continuous improvement environment operates at all levels of the business, which demands that we use the best tools, the best processes and the best people. If you are one of those people, then we have a place for you.

• Develop a strong platform vision that is focused on customer, partner and employee experience journeys.
• Manage a DevOps based Scrum team with empathy, creativity, and efficiency.
• Proactively remove or escalate roadblocks to allow team progress.
• Maintain and communicate relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance to develop chemistry, efficiency, and teamwork.
• Create rhythm and velocity by coaching daily stand-up meetings, facilitate and schedule team meetings, demos, and sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Assist product owner in creating, managing and communicating the backlog.
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency and responsiveness to complete work and solve problems with a strong drive to persevere when faced with ambiguity.
• Encourage continual improvement in Agile and DevOps practices with an emphasis on Nexus framework.
• Take proactive action when one notices differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management.
• Able to act as a servant leader to resolve conflicts, facilitate discussions, propose viable alternatives, and consider different approaches.
• Desire to bring disclosure and transparency to the product teams about technical development in order to gain business trust.

• Scrum Master Certified
• 7+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master working in multiple scrum culture.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment using Scrum methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of Jira, Slack, and Confluence.
• Strong analytical, problem ¬solving, time ¬management and influencing skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
• Understanding of backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.
• Persistent drive for continual improvement, both with team and self.
• Quick learner¬: must be able to quickly gain a high-level understanding of the technical and business domains of the product teams.
• Have a passion for creating an environment for a successful platform team.
• Self-motivated and the ability to work under minimal supervision are required.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or other technical field.

• Knowledge of Nexus or Scrum of Scrum methodologies.