Scrum Master

Assurant

About The Position

Assurant is seeking an experienced, self-motivated Scrum Master capable of achieving broadly communicated objectives with minimal supervision. This role involves providing effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching within the agile development process to ensure the successful delivery of applications. The Scrum Master will also be responsible for enforcing agile tenets, removing impediments, and promoting team empowerment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
3+ years of experience working as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead
Strong working knowledge of Scrum, Agile principles, and servant leadership
Proven experience facilitating Sprint planning, Daily stand‑ups, and Sprint reviews and retrospectives
Experience coaching cross‑functional teams (engineering, product, QA, operations)
Ability to remove impediments and proactively manage dependencies and risks
Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work across all levels of the organization
Demonstrated ability to promote continuous improvement, team accountability, and delivery predictability

Nice To Haves

Previous AI experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Understand the difference between Agile and Scrum and be able to articulate it
Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software
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
Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
Understand and be able to articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team's environment and progress toward them
Supports Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined – prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints
Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria
Proactively manage dependencies
Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs
Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
Participate in the agile community both internal to Assurant and external with other practitioners
Enforces the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops