Scrum Master

8 Hours ago • 1-2 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Scrum Master, you will optimize Agile processes and support product delivery for consumer and enterprise products. You will work closely with Product, Data Science, Platform and Engineering organizations, ensuring deliverables are properly scoped. You will also collaborate with Technical Project Managers to meet project goals and deadlines. Your responsibilities include running daily stand-up meetings, reviewing the team's backlog, running project status meetings, reporting statuses, and planning sprint meetings. The ideal candidate has successfully managed the lifecycle of a software project, ensuring timely and successful delivery using Agile, Scrum and Waterfall best practices.
Must have:
  • Experience in enterprise-level technology project management.
  • Expert/certified in Scrum and/or other Agile methodologies.
  • Experience running projects with Agile/Scrum
  • Technical project management experience, specifically software development.
  • Admin experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence.
  • Deep experience with Jira and building Jira Dashboards.
  • Experienced using Google Sheets.
  • Self-starter with ability to work independently.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Good to have:
  • Internet, cellular, broadband, telecom technology experience.
  • Baseline understanding about data ingestion.
  • Basic understanding of large-scale implementations of AWS infrastructure, Redshift, Athena and other technologies

Job Details

Description

Position at Ookla

Ookla® is a global leader in connectivity intelligence, offering unparalleled network insights through the combined expertise of Speedtest®, Downdetector®, RootMetrics®, and Ekahau®. Ookla’s complementary datasets combine crowdsourced and controlled, public and private collection methods, QoS and QoE metrics, and more to unlock correlations and actionable insights — helping organizations optimize networks, enhance digital experiences, and create better connected experiences for end-users.
Our team is a group of people brought together through passion and inspired by possibility. We are looking for team members who love solving problems, are motivated by challenges, and enjoy turning clever ideas into exceptional products. When you work for us, you are using Ookla data and insights to advance our mission of better connectivity for all.
We are looking for a Scrum Master who can execute and optimize our Agile processes (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc.) and support product delivery for our consumer and enterprise products. You will work closely with the Product, Data Science, Platform and Engineering organizations. You will ensure deliverables are properly scoped and dependencies are accounted for. You will work closely with the Technical Project Manager to ensure cross-team projects are meeting goals and deadlines.
The ideal candidate has successfully managed the lifecycle of a software project, ensuring timely and successful delivery using Agile, Scrum and Waterfall best practices. You have demonstrable experience building and fostering relationships with internal stakeholders.

 

A Day in The Life:
  • Run daily Stand Up meetings
  • Review your team’s backlog and unblock team members
  • Run project status meetings to determine progress, identify roadblocks, drive their resolution or ensure a clear hand-off to the right owner and work to minimize risks
  • Report statuses and updates to the Senior Technical Project Manager, specifically identifying roadblocks, risks and delays to ensure a clear hand-off to mitigate risks to project plans
  • Work closely with all stakeholders, plan for the upcoming Sprint Planning meeting, review priorities, sprint capacity and team velocity.
  • Run Sprint Planning, close out the current Sprint, review the Sprint Report, discuss performance with the team, and align on Sprint Goals.
  • Collaborate with technical leads to ensure alignment between day-to-day execution and delivery priorities across workstreams.

 

Expectations for Success: 
  • Support Agile development processes by executing and continuously improving them
  • Manage project timeline including milestones, dependencies, risks and schedule and  communicate status
  • Track interdependencies, assess project risk and work across teams to develop contingency plans
  • Assist your teams with work estimation and resource allocation
  • Conduct regular project reviews, gather feedback, capture outputs in tickets and/or notes and communicate to stakeholders
  • Collaborate with Agile Coaches/TPMs focused on cross-team planning to ensure team execution aligns with broader strategic priorities and quarterly goals

 

Requirements:
The heading says “requirements” but we’re looking for the right person not the exact list. If your life experience prepares you for similar challenges, we’d like to hear from you. 
  • 1-2+ years of enterprise-level technology running software project/program management experience
  • Expert/certified in Scrum and/or other Agile methodologies.
  • Experience running projects with Agile/Scrum
  • Technical project management experience, specifically software development
  • Admin experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence 
  • Deep experience with Jira and building Jira Dashboards
  • Experienced using Google Sheets
  • Self-starter with ability to work independently
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Internet, cellular, broadband, telecom technology experience
  • Baseline understanding about data ingestion 
  • Basic understanding of large-scale implementations of AWS infrastructure, Redshift, Athena and other technologies

 

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About The Company

​Crystal Dynamics is an award-winning, top of class game development studio located just south of San Francisco in sunny San Mateo, CA. Founded in 1992, Crystal Dynamics has grown into a world class studio by developing iconic franchises and keeping at the forefront of the very latest in technology and graphics. Crystal Dynamics is owned by the Embracer Group.


Having created beloved properties such as Gex and the Legacy of Kain series, as well as driving the massively successful Tomb Raider franchise, Crystal Dynamics is now laying the groundwork for the next generation of innovative and technologically stunning projects.


Team work makes the dream work, and at Crystal Dynamics diverse perspectives, equal voices, and inclusive philosophies create the best teams who make the best games. Diversity leads to productivity, tolerance, and a welcoming spirit as part of the Crystal Dynamics family. Inclusivity breaks down barriers of all kinds to ensure all people can take joy in their work, have pride for being heard, and take comfort in being respected. We prize all perspectives so that we can be our best selves and the best game developers at a company beloved for our games as well as our culture of creativity. To all who wish to enter this place and continue evolving Crystal Dynamics to be its best self, we say welcome.


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