Scrum Master

**MANDATORY ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT - PROFICIENT IN READ, WRITE AND SPEAK**

**Company Overview**

At SproutLoud our people and culture are central to our incredible growth. Perhaps that's why in 2016 SproutLoud was ranked one of the **50 Innovative Companies to Watch** by Silicon Review. In 2015, we were named among the **50 Most Promising Google Technology Solution Providers** in the country by CIO Review, among the Top **10 Marketing Automation Solution Providers** nationwide by Marketing Tech Insights, and ranked No.1 for Local Partner Execution by Forrester Research in 2015. SproutLoud has also been recognized as one of the Fastest-**Growing Technology Companies** by Deloitte, Inc. 5000, Inc. 500 and the South Florida Business Journal multiple times between 2010 and 2016.

Headquartered in Medellin in the great Poblado, SproutLoud develops its own technology to service the local marketing needs of large organizations. We help our clients manage their brands and distribute their marketing resources locally - through sales channels, franchisees, chain-retail locations, dealer networks, value-added reseller (VAR) programs, and field employees/offices - with a comprehensive distributed marketing solution. SproutLoud solutions manage brand compliance, increase speed to market, automate manual tasks, and provide robust reporting and business intelligence.

**Job Duties**:
As a Scrum Master, you will be responsible for helping our IT teams with the following activities:
**Meetings**
- Facilitating meetings for the team. This includes: Daily stand up, Sprint planning meetings, product demo setup
- Preparing
- Moderation
- Gather feedback from stakeholders and share it with teams for follow-up.
- Holding retrospectives at the end of every sprint / iteration.

**Team Dynamics**
- Coaching team members on Agile practices and holding them accountable.
- Mediating through conflicts.
- Helping the team to make decisions.
- Fostering the developer team’s self-organisation.
- Mediating the general conflict of goals between development team (high technical quality) and product owner (more features).

**Learning**
- Continuing learning regarding everything Agile (e.g. visit user groups, attend conferences, read books, write blogs, etc.).
- Consulting team members regarding everything Agile.
- Helping the team to create information radiators, review them and explain the state of affairs
- Giving feedback to the team devoid of cognitive bias.
- Encouraging the use of Agile Engineering Practices within the development team (including e.g. one click releases, continuous delivery, feature toggles, and many more).
- Challenge team with Agile management innovations
- Synchronization and Exchanging of Information constantly with other Scrum masters in the organisation.

**Product**
- Facilitate teams to write or split user stories.
- Facilitate Product owners to write or adapt product visions.
- Facilitate to order product backlog items based on Prioritization and dependency.
- Helping with the release planning.
- Being familiar with the team’s work (i.e. the product).

**Big Picture**
- Bringing people together who should talk to each other.
- Keeping in touch with every stakeholder regularly.
- Helping the team to report to management.
- Helping to further the Agile community within the organisation.
- Organizing exchange events like Open Spaces or World Cafés for the team, its stakeholders, and its organisation.
- Sharing insights throughout the company (micro-blogging, blogging, internal conferences, Google communities etc.).
- Being a contact person for everyone in the team and their stakeholders regarding Agile.
- Giving learning opportunities to people in the organization (e.g. talks or workshops) and letting them learn important Agile concepts like e.g. technical debt.

**Change**
- Helping the team to get rid of impediments.
- Suggesting new metrics for the team as catalysts for change.

**Mirror**
- Reflecting Agile and Scrum values to the team.
- Reminding the team of their arrangements (e.g. policies).
- Helping the team to continuously improve their process.
- Reflecting issues to the team through observation from outside of the team.
- Asking open questions.
- Checking all the models the team uses (e.g. Sprint backlog, metrics, etc.) and show them differences between the model and the real world.
- Be devoid of cognitive bias.

**Miscellaneous**
- Helping the team to keep focus (e.g. by acting as a buffer between external distractions and the team).
- Helping the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Story board, Action board, charts, backlogs, etc.).
- Helping team and product owner to find a suitable definition of done and definition of ready.

**Necessary Skills**
- You should possess superior communication skills, both verbal and written (English is a must), as well as an aptitude for math and accounting.
- You must be highly self-motivated in helping Agile teams achieve their objectives.
- You also mu