Scrum Master

PulteGroup•Atlanta, GA

11d

About The Position

PulteGroup is seeking a Scrum Master to oversee product teams and support effective delivery of sprint commitments, product quality, and performance expectations. The role ensures teams understand business context, product vision, user stories, and sprint goals; supports team self-organization and cross-functional collaboration; and helps teams improve their practices and delivery predictability. The position works with product managers and product owners on release planning and backlog refinement, and collaborates across roles and organizational levels to promote agile principles, practices, and tools. Travel may be required. The role is designated Career Level P4 and typically involves working with limited oversight, coaching and guiding other professionals, and managing major or complex projects or processes.

Requirements

Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (GED); typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience.
Typically requires 6–8 years of prior relevant experience.
At least 3 years of Scrum/Agile experience, with excellent working knowledge of agile frameworks, ceremonies, processes, roles, and responsibilities.
At least 3 years of experience collaborating with business stakeholders to deliver quantifiable business value.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to build rapport, share findings, and explain tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Group facilitation skills and demonstrated ability to navigate conflict constructively and facilitate conflict resolution while supporting team learning.
Excellent leadership and people skills, including working with varied teams, influencing, gaining buy-in, and managing relationships across organizational levels.
Experience with Azure DevOps, MS Teams, and MS SharePoint.
Organized, persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.

Nice To Haves

Professional Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Master credential preferred.

Responsibilities

Oversee product teams to ensure sprint backlogs are managed, commitments are reasonable, stories are actively swarmed, sprint goals are delivered, and quality and performance expectations are met.
Ensure product teams understand business context, product vision, user stories, and sprint goals.
Develop and negotiate team working agreements, effective user stories, acceptance criteria, and a clear definition of done.
Support product teams in self-organization and management, cross-functional collaboration, team dynamics, and interpersonal skills.
Protect product teams from interruptions, manage risks, and remove impediments.
Assess teams and programs and recommend continuous improvements.
Help teams reflect and improve their effectiveness, predictability, teamwork, and practices.
Develop, lead, or facilitate workshops on topics including story mapping and breakdown, user and persona creation, value-stream mapping, product road-mapping, project inception, and launch.
Educate individuals across all levels and roles on agile principles, best practices, and tools to improve workflows and product delivery.
Manage agile ceremonies and activities, including daily stand-ups, product and sprint backlog refinement, sprint reviews, agile board management, and retrospectives.
Partner with product managers and product owners to develop release plans and ensure backlogs are refined, prioritized, and transparent.
Assist with dependency management, cross-team testing and delivery coordination, and release management and support.
Perform other duties as assigned.