Remote Scrum Master

Summary

Join GoCanvas as a Scrum Master to help our engineering scrum teams improve their agile practices. As a key member of our Agile team, you will be leveraging the appropriate Agile methodologies to build high-performance teams and foster continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with 2-3 years experience as a Scrum Master
• Strong self-organization and self-management skills
• Experience implementing scrum for various sized teams
• Experience using Agile backlog management tools
• Experience with distributed teams
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong organizational and creativity skills, able to maintain composure in a chaotic environment and promote a sensible and logical approach to issues
• Strong interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

• Continued focus on Agile methodologies within engineering teams
• Facilitate stand-ups, retrospectives and other activities for up to 2 scrum teams
• Work closely with product and engineering teams on user story refinement
• Provide input to sprint commitment and release planning - using team capacity and team velocity
• Continuous improvement
• Communicate team progress and dependencies with team leads
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration thru Scrum of Scrums, R&D demos
• Manage team metrics
• Be an advocate for Agile and the Scrum methodology

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Medical plan
• EAP Program
• Remote working flexibility
• 3 days Family Responsibility Leave
• 12 Days Sick Leave
• 15 Days Vacation Leave
• 13 Company-Paid Holidays