Role: Project Manager (Scrum Master)
Duration: 6 months
Location: Memphis, TN

Description: Need an experienced Scrum Master, preferably with some project management background. We are seeking a mature Leader comfortable planning and driving projects and holding teams accountable.

Responsibilities:

• Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and deliver projects and programs. Decide on suitable strategies and objectives for the product team
• Facilitate sprints planning, sprint refinement, retrospectives, sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings
• Collaborate between developers, testers, and business stakeholders. Coach team members in Agile frameworks and Guide teams to higher scrum maturity
• Effective and clear verbal and written communication. Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
• Support the product owner and provide education where needed by work with product owners to handle backlogs, prioritization and new requests
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur for the team. Help teams implement changes effectively
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint. Monitor and improve the team's velocity.
• Help build a productive environment where team members 'own' the product and enjoy working on it
• Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices. Help the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction
• Lead and development self-organization scrum team. Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments
• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity. Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected project across multiple teams
• Guide the team to apply the 5 whys to each proposed user story. Guide the team to focus on the desired behavior or outcomes
• Provide weekly executive summaries of the project's progress

Requirements:

• 5 years' experience in Agile. Prior experience in project management is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in management or a relevant field. Excellent organizational, communication, management and leadership skills
• Experience with budget, scope and schedule management.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques