This is a hybrid role and requires 3x a week onsite in our Newton, MA office.
Coordinate and coach team on Agile values and principles and Scrum framework, to ensure a functional, productive and efficient team. Support Product Owner, working with team to manage product backlog, provide project support and product deliverables and support the work of the team by facilitating project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives. Actively identify and remove impediments to ensure timely completion of projects.
Bright Horizons is trusted by families and employers around the world for high-quality child care and early education, back-up care, and workplace education. We partner with some of the world’s best companies to provide services that help employees perform their best and support families to thrive both personally and professionally.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science or related field required.
• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master and 5+ years of IT specific experience required.
• Scrum Master certification (CSM or CSP, PSM) required.

PREFERRED SKILLS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have excellent communication, facilitation, conflict management and mentoring skills.
• SAFe certification preferred.
• Must have experience with Agile project management tools.
• Agile DevOps experience preferred.
• Must have knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc).
• Experience with independently transitioning software teams to a variation of agile process in the past.
• Aptitude to follow technical discussions and bridge communications between product managers and developers
• Ability to work under minimal supervision, independently and with teams
  At this time, Bright Horizons will not sponsor an applicant for employment authorization/visa for this position.

• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, backlog refinement, demos and other Scrum-related activities.
• Coach agile teams and communicating agile concepts and benefits to the team and stakeholders while taking a pragmatic/flexible Agile approach when required.
• Tracks and communicates progress metrics and performance to leadership and stakeholders.
• Responsible for removing impediments and guiding the team to remove impediments.
• Support the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and managing the product backlog.
• Provide project and/or product deliverables including kickoff presentations, project plans, status reports and deployment plans.