Associate Scrum Master

The Associate Scrum Master supports the adoption and execution of the Scrum framework within project teams. This role facilitates sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring alignment with project goals and progress. Acting as a key liaison between Scrum teams, product management, and stakeholders, the Associate Scrum Master helps guide the product lifecycle from initial planning through release. Responsibilities include monitoring project performance, quality, and delivery speed, providing timely updates to stakeholders, and proactively identifying and removing impediments to maintain smooth workflow.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software

• Manage more than one Sprint team with overlapping timelines and proactively manage dependencies within and across teams

• Facilitates: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and Sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective – ensure all participants understand the ceremony’s purpose and keep to the time-box

• Track and communicate team velocity and Sprint/release progress

• Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration – both inside and outside of team – allowing them to self-organize

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or 1+ years of experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams

• Strong understanding of Scrum principles, structure, and ceremonies in the context of software development.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching skills.

• Basic knowledge of Agile practices, including retrospectives, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and burn-down charts.

• Ability to collaborate effectively and influence without formal authority.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Preferred: Scrum certification, a bachelor’s degree and knowledge of SAFE Methodology

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Pay Range:

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

If there is no posting end date listed then this is a pipeline requisition, and we will continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis.

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Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.

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