Scrum Master I

Company

Cox Automotive

• USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Scrum Master I

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid

• Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $64,200.00 - $96,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Backlog Management Practices

• Works with Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices

• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement

• Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams

• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination

Agile Ceremony Facilitation

• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams

• Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management

• Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process

• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices

• Mentors Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement

Delivery Team Support

• Removes impediments to the team's ability to perform

• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions

• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution

• Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics.

• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization

• Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems

Advice and Guidance

• Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery

• Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability ·

• Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements ·

• Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity

WHO YOU ARE

• 1+ years of experience in Scrum Master role preferred.

• Scrum Certifications desirable

• Experience working in an Agile environment

• Continuously seek to improve solution development processes and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement consistent across the organization

• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific specialisms, and provides expert advice regarding their application.

• Supervise specialist consultancy.

• Enable stakeholder engagement/ communications plans, including, for example; handling of complaints; problems and issues; managing resolutions; corrective actions and lessons learned; collection and dissemination of relevant information.

• Use feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.

• Help develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.

• Plan the delivery of leaning activities, based on learning objectives

• Customize formal and informal learning activities, incorporating relevant scenarios and case studies.

• Design appropriate environments, and deliver learning activities to specialist audiences.

• Advice/coach others in learning delivery techniques and options.

Drug Testing

To be employed in this role, you'll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.

About Us

Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells - or simply uses - cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer

• All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.