Scrum Master

NBCUniversal•New York, NY

1d•$90,000 - $130,000•Hybrid

About The Position

NBCUniversal’s Enterprise Product team supports critical technology platforms across NBCU’s media businesses. Within Ad Technology & Integration, the team drives the digital ad technology ecosystem that powers NBCU’s billion-dollar advertising business. We ensure reliable ad delivery across streaming, mobile, desktop, and set-top box platforms and continually improve our tools, processes, and operational efficiency. We're looking for a collaborative Scrum Master to lead cross-functional Ad Technology programs and guide Product Owners, QA teams, Integration Leads, and key stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.

Requirements

3+ years of Scrum Master experience.
Experience with SAFe, and excellent working knowledge of Atlassian workflows and operations.
Scrum Master certification is a must with SAFe Agilist experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing global projects teams with competing priorities, diverse business objectives, and time zones constraints
Ability to collect information from multiple sources, document concepts using data + visualizations, and present complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience within media and entertainment industry
Experience with Microsoft 365
Experience in IT, Agile Product & App Development environment highly preferred
Experience with JIRA, Lucidchart, Smartsheet, Tableau or PowerBI
Program Management Professional (PgMP), Project Management Professional (PMP), and/or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certifications a plus

Responsibilities

Manage multiple projects of medium to large scale through sprints/iterations and phases of the project.
Requirements gathering from the business users and ability to work with the business partners on clear and concise project status and communications.
Facilitate sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other related events.
In partnership with the product owner, work with the scrum team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition, the definition of minimum viable product, and continuous refinement and prioritization the product backlog.
Communicate team metrics per agile tracking system and provide transparency regarding sprint/release progress to all teams and management.
Facilitate discussion, conflict resolution, and have the ability to track and remove impediments efficiently.
Promote continuous improvement and help teams to increase velocity by providing direction for project activities to ensure successful implementation provide strategic thinking and tactical execution and promote a collaborative team environment that fosters experimentation, creativity and innovation.
Update company program management systems for status, assist in the preparation and analysis of budgets and forecasts and resource capacity planning.