Scrum Master

Pennymac • Westlake Village, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Scrum Master is a servant-leader and coach accountable for ensuring their assigned Scrum Team(s) understand and effectively enact Scrum principles to deliver valuable technology solutions predictably. This role focuses on maximizing the team's efficiency and protecting their focus, facilitating the removal of organizational impediments, and continuously coaching the team and organization on effective Agile practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of demonstrated experience as a dedicated Scrum Master for a software development team.
• Proven ability to run high-impact meetings, manage conflict, and drive consensus among diverse team members and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with modern Agile and ALM tools such as Jira, Rally, or Azure DevOps.
• Ability to understand technical concepts, development processes, and the complexities of software release management.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written communication, and presentation skills suitable for technical and executive audiences.
• Excellent organizational skills and proven ability to manage complex tasks and priorities within a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Scrum Master Certification: CSM, A-CSM, CSP-SM, and/or CSPO desired.
• Experience with process improvement methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt) desired.
• Experience in a regulated industry, such as mortgage finance desired.
• Experience helping to stand up new teams from inception, including defining their DoR/DoD, working agreements, and initial metrics desired.

Responsibilities

• Expertly facilitate all core Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives.
• Coach the Development Team in self-management and cross-functionality, ensuring clear understanding and adherence to the team’s defined Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD).
• Facilitate effective Retrospectives that foster psychological safety, resulting in clear, actionable improvements tracked for continuous application across processes and practices.
• Demonstrate practical experience with scaling frameworks (e.g., SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale) to enable enterprise-scale Agile delivery and release management.
• Act as a servant-leader, proactively identifying and removing impediments to the team's progress, and strictly protecting the team from unnecessary external distractions or pressure.
• Work across functional groups and organizational layers to address systemic impediments and coach the broader organization on how to interact productively with the Scrum Team.
• Maintain high visibility and transparency of the team's progress, delivery cadence, and health by tracking and communicating key metrics such as velocity, lead time, and burndown.
• Support the Product Owner/Manager in ensuring the Product Backlog is clearly defined, refined, prioritized, and readily available for the team to commit to.
• Facilitate the Sprint Review, ensuring effective demonstration of completed work and that stakeholder feedback is systematically captured and integrated back into the backlog.
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned.
• Demonstrate behaviors which are aligned with the organization’s desired culture and values.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Paid Time Off Programs including vacation, holidays, illness, and parental leave
• Wellness Programs, Employee Recognition Programs, and onsite gyms and cafe style dining (select locations)
• Retirement benefits, life insurance, 401k match, and tuition reimbursement
• Philanthropy Programs including matching gifts, volunteer grants, charitable grants and corporate sponsorships
• Bonus opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees