Position: Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master
Company: Newfire Global Partners
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Through their world-class platform, they orchestrate a network of 500,000 passionate experts in 5,000-plus cities, who partner with brands to create culturally rich experiences. Relentless in their love for linguistics, they use the best of human and machine intelligence to forge an understanding that resonates with their customers’ customers.

You Perfectly Match If you have:

- 5+ years of commercial experience as Scrum Master or Project Manager in commercial software development;
- Proficient spoken and written English;
- Solid understanding of Agile principles, Scrum/Kanban;
- Full understanding of concepts of Software Development Life Cycle;
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, DOD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing, etc.
- Knowledge utilizing Azure DevOps (preferably) or Atlassian Suite (e.g. Jira, Confluence);
- Requirements reviewing and analysis;
- Strong planning, organizational, and time management skills;
- Excellent interpersonal skills and writing skills;
- A high-level understanding of data warehousing and working with data will be a plus.

Your day-to-day activities:

- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values and get the most out of self-organization;
- Facilitating Scrum ceremonies, grooming, stand-ups, team communications, and decision making with the team;
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments;
- Performing regular one on ones, facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution;
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and build trust with stakeholders;
- Provide reports and dashboards with metrics of the health of sprint/project/programs;
- Maintaining the accuracy of Scrum tools like JIRA Tickets, Burndown Chart, Reports, etc.;
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog;
- Establish and manage effective partnerships with other SCRUM teams;
- Assist with resource management duties such as staffing, timesheet approvals, onboarding, performance reviews, promotions/terminations, etc.