Fast Facts

Stride Tutoring is seeking a Scrum Master to facilitate Agile best practices, guide multiple Scrum teams, and ensure the timely delivery of software solutions. The role requires strong leadership and communication skills to enhance collaboration and remove obstacles for the development teams.

Responsibilities: The Scrum Master will lead project ceremonies, support release management, facilitate communication among team members, and proactively remove impediments to delivery success, ensuring alignment with Agile/Scrum practices.

Skills: Required skills include proficiency in Jira and Confluence, excellent communication abilities, and experience with Scrum methodology and technical teams.

Qualifications: Five years of technology experience and certification as a SaFe Scrum Master are required; a Bachelor's degree in a related field is preferred.

Location: This is a remote position open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.

Compensation: $66379 - $170037 / Annually

Job Description

The Scrum Master is a key member of the Stride Tutoring Team and is responsible for the timely and effective delivery of software requirements from various business contexts. Provide solutions and ideas to create a more effective scrum team. Use leadership, communication, technical, and organization skills to effectively coach the scrum team on Agile best practices, remove impediments, enhance collaboration, and ensure that the team delivers high quality working software to the customer. Successful candidates will be comfortable collaborating with internal stakeholders and engineering team members to build creative solutions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Guide one or more Scrum teams in Agile best practices, ensuring smooth delivery
• Facilitate the creation of a self-organized, self-managed team that can identify and deliver the work that can be completed in a time-boxed iteration
• Lead all project ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Planning, Review, Retrospective, Backlog Grooming, etc.)
• Participate in requirements and design discussions with project stakeholders
• Support release management and deployments
• Facilitate medium-to-high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with Agile/Scrum practices, including but not limited to, project kick-off, sprint, release and deployment planning
• Accountable alongside the scrum team for the achievement of release objectives and results that meet stakeholders' needs and expectations
• Remove impediments to delivery success through the proactive management of external dependencies, medium-to-high complexity team problem-solving and the development of new solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges; has the authority to execute against new approaches and escalate issues through business and/or IT channels where necessary
• Accountable for creating and maintaining the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the scrum team (e.g. tracker boards) to create a trusting and safe team environment;
• Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues
• Facilitate and engage in technical conversations across platforms
• Communicate cross functionally, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes; Report team progress and accomplishment up and across; Facilitate status updates, product demos and retrospectives;
• Participates in long-range planning and development of application or product roadmaps with Product Owners
• Tracks and communicates team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Maintains process documentation
• Ensure development and QA teams are practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Assists the Product Owner with backlog maintenance, and internal and external communications; Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs
• Assist in breaking down large epics into smaller, technically feasible user stories.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:  

• Five (5) years’ technology experience;

Certificates and Licenses: Certified Agile SaFe Scrum Master

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to clearly articulate findings and concepts that support the problem you are trying to solve
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with Scrum methodology
• Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
• Continuous improvement experience
• Experience working with technical teams (developers, testers, DevOps, architects, cloud engineers).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
• Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
• Proficiency with project software
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
• Ability to clear required background check

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field from a four-year college or university

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.

Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.

• We anticipate the salary range to be $66,379.50- $170,037.60. The upper end of this range is not likely to be offered, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer. 

Job Type

Regular

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you can request the appropriate accommodation by contacting stridecareers@k12.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. Applicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.