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Promethean · 2 days ago

Scrum Master, Business Systems

Promethean is a global leader in edtech focused on transforming learning and collaboration. They are seeking a Scrum Master to facilitate agile practices within their IT Business Enterprise Applications team, working closely with stakeholders to enhance the capabilities of commercial applications like CRM and ERP.

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Responsibilities

Own, facilitate and improve all scrum ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives)
Learn new approaches to facilitation and implement agile best practices within ceremonies
Guide the team to focus on delivery of high-quality stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence
Build and administer the scrum team agile metrics dashboards (velocity monitoring and improving, burn down, lead/cycle time, etc) within Jira/agile tools
Administer and configure the use of Agile tracking tools, Jira, at the project level for the scrum team(s)
Collaborate, communicate and build strong trust and rapport with business stakeholders, program managers, business system analysts to plan sprints and releases
Assist in gathering business requirements through initial discovery meetings with the business stakeholder accurately estimating the effort required to address those problems or change requests
Collaborate with the business and technology teams, third party/other interfaces or partners to help define user story requirements and acceptance criteria
Coordinate and plan meetings to gather user requirements, processes, and technical requirements as determined by technical teams
Assist technical support and development teams in triaging customer issues, defects, enhancement requests and backlog items. Conduct necessary research and collaborate with teams to prioritize appropriately
Support the prioritization, software development and delivery of user stories within the sprints for each program increment. Validate the user stories against acceptance criteria
Assist with the investigation of problems and engage appropriate support teams (IT, Operational, Vendor) for resolution. Keep stakeholders aware of the status
Represent the team regarding upgrades, releases, and UAT testing when required

Qualification

Scrum Master experienceSalesforceJira administrationAgile metricsAgile practicesKanban experienceCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsInterpersonal skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in related technical field or at least 5 years working as a scrum master within an IT team supporting business enterprise applications (CRM/Salesforce, ERP, or Expense Management systems) that are shared with multiple business teams (Finance, Operations, Sales, and/or Logistics/Supply Chain)
Must have experience working on a Salesforce platform scrum team. The scrum master needs to be well versed with the SFDC platform to coordinate associated agile roll outs and assist the technical teams
Strong understanding and experience working with Scrum and Kanban teams. Must have experience configuring or administrating Jira at the project level to perform Agile duties
Must have a balanced approach of using lightweight processes to ensure delivery of business features
Experience building and guiding team efficiency through scrum team velocity and optimizing team capacity
Experience with building, monitoring and using agile metrics to improve the practice
Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as collaboration/influencing skills and running scrum teams in a geographically distributed environment
Strong collaborator, able to bring together partners to elicit requirements and address challenging problems with a variety of stakeholders across the globe
Must have the ability to build trust and grow existing and new business partners/integrators relationships
Experienced and comfortable working in changing environments where people and technological changes are being implemented to address company growth or changing market conditions
Able to convey complex/abstract ideas to target audience both verbally and visually
This position will be working with business partners located predominately in Europe and US time zone and would need to be able to adjust their schedules to accommodate when appropriate

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Spending Accounts (FSA and HSA)
Disability Programs
401(k) Retirement Plan with Matching
Generous PTO and Holidays
Paid Maternity and Parental Leave Program with Child Care Subsidy
Paid Volunteer Time Off
Reward and Recognition Program
Well-Being Programs (For example, company-wide health challenges)
And more!

Company

Promethean

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Promethean delivers interactive learning technology, creating innovative education solutions, and virtual classroom solutions.

H1B Sponsorship

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2024 (1)
2023 (4)
2022 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$3.68M
Key Investors
Apax Partners
2015-11-03Acquired
2010-03-17IPO
2010-01-13Series Unknown· $3.68M

Leadership Team

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Vin Riera
CEO
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Angela Ardoin
Head of Regional Partner Education Consultants
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