ITHAKA CAREERS

The Scrum Master role requires a dynamic, experienced, and passionate individual. For us to achieve our mission and continue to impact positively the education and growth of people everywhere, our teams need to adopt, embrace and continuously improve methodologies that support innovation, quality, and speed to market. 

 
Our organization, and this role will provide you with opportunities that few other companies can offer including:

• Working in an organization that fully supports agility from end to end.
• Working with teams of talented, driven individuals making a positive impact on the world.
• Creating innovations that will be  used by millions of users all over the world.
• Organizational commitment to and a proven track record of experimenting with new technologies and methodologies to enable innovation.
• Working with a team of talented professionals committed to constant agile learning and experimentation.
• We invest in building strong teams, providing them with the resources and tools they need to succeed.
• To be a part of creating something that profoundly enriches people’s lives.
• When joining the team of Scrum Masters at JSTOR, you can expect to receive all the relevant tool, product training and domain on-boarding you need to successfully support our agile teams.
• Those in leadership roles will work tirelessly to set you up for success.

Specific Objectives and Responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of the Scrum Master are:

• Supporting multiple agile teams as a Servant Leader - removing obstacles that inhibit productivity and enabling continuous improvement.
• Ensuring teams benefit from key Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, etc.), by being an excellent facilitator and consistent innovator.
• Providing data and insights that enable teams to  improve consistently team performance and productivity and refine their processes.
• Championing the adoption and constant evolution of software development tactics (e.g., Test Driven Development), that help teams increase effectiveness in an agile framework.
• Helping teams and product owners build, understand, and consistently groom product backlogs.
• Keeping our agile practice fresh by injecting new ideas and rejecting dogma.
• Being an superb communicator of issues, accomplishments, progress, needs, etc., both inside the team and out.
• Mastering the tools and techniques necessary to ensure the success of the teams.
• Fostering outstanding collaboration and teamwork by understanding team dynamics and facilitating effective team interaction; raising productivity, preventing and addressing issues.
• Providing value to your teams by understanding the work they do.

Challenges You’ll Overcome

We are a goal driven organization, and finding a way to deliver those goals while empowering the teams and embodying the agile principles can be daunting at times.  Our team thrives in this environment due to our commitment to overcome our failures and build upon our successes.

Skills, Experience, and Characteristics

• A team player who leads by example and does not shy away from any task that can help the team.
• A problem solver who helps the team to identify conflicting priorities and then frames and escalates issues quickly.
• A trustworthy teammate who can be counted on to execute and deliver on what has been promised.
• A leader who inspires and motivates teams and effectively handled stressful situations; and resolves conflicts by encouraging constructive and respectful debate.
• An outstanding communicator who conveys information quickly and clearly and, is easily understood.
• BS/BA in computer science, business, information science or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience functioning as a Scrum Master on mid to large-scale product and systems development projects.
• Scrum Master Certification required; Certified Scrum Professional desired.
• Experience with full web development cycle and SDLC.
• Experience with Scrum tracking software desirable.

Work for us

Come join our team of talented and dedicated people with great ideas who want to make the world a smarter place.  Individuals will be rewarded with excellent career development and a fantastic benefits package that includes:

• Choice of two medical plans, one at no cost to the employee
• Employer paid dental, vision, life insurance, and employee assistance programs
• Employer contributed retirement and much, much more

Learn more about working at ITHAKA.

ITHAKA is an equal opportunity employer.