Scrum Master III

Job title: Scrum Master III - Location: Chicago, IL (Partial Remote) - Primary role: Facilitating the definition, development, implementation, and ongoing improvement of Agile practices within the organization. - Key responsibilities: Facilitating sprint planning, retrospective, and daily activities related to stand-ups and sprint burn down; maintaining relevant metrics; resolving identified impediments; leading Agile transformation; promoting accountability and transparency across all levels of the organization. - Leadership role: Serving as a senior team member, leading the scaling of Agile from team level to enterprise level, acting as a change agent, making decisions and independently driving any aspect of Agile rollout. - Training role: Creating training materials, providing training and coaching throughout the organization, supporting Agile teams in their development and playbook creation. - Collaboration role: Collaborating with non-Agile team, supporting them throughout transformation, advising on dependency management techniques. - Assessment role: Performing ongoing assessments of the teams' Scrum maturity to inform ongoing support decisions. - Education requirement: Bachelor's Degree and/or equivalent work experience. - Certification: CSM/CSPO Certification or PMI-ACP preferred. - Key skills required: Proficiency with common Agile practices, ability to build effective partnerships, aptitude for learning and using technology, ability to communicate well with all levels of the organization, ability to lead and demonstrate value-add principles to a team in a collaborative way, assertiveness, enthusiasm, continuous improvement mindset, ability to help leaders & teams define clear metrics, outstanding presentation and communication skills, deep understanding of common Agile practices and better product envisioning and development practices, superb conflict resolution and consensus-building skills, understanding of fundamentals of iterative development, software development processes and procedures.