Freelance Scrum Master

🕒 April 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚡️ Scrum Master + Agile Coach

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Human Made

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

SaaS • Enterprise • Media

Human Made is a leading global WordPress agency, specializing in creating enterprise-grade content platforms and providing digital consultancy since 2011. The company develops scalable and secure WordPress solutions for some of the world's largest organizations, including brands like Standard Chartered and Harvard Gazette. With a diverse, fully remote team, Human Made is renowned for its expertise in building platforms that adapt to large teams and complex workflows, while driving engagement and return on investment. They also offer services in UX/UI design, CMS architecture, content migration, and ongoing technology consultancy. Human Made is committed to open-source innovation and serves clients across the globe, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions tailored to their clients’ needs. Their services include enterprise WordPress audits, staff augmentation, and seamless migrations from other platforms.

📋 Description

• Manage each projects scope and timeline • Create and maintain a team culture that facilitates a shared responsibility for successful delivery • Guide team on principles and practice of the agile framework being used in the project • Work with team to help define and refine project scope, estimates, and resource requirements for projects • Prepare and facilitate workshops (either virtual or in-person) to establish project needs and relationships • Facilitate meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing • Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments • Assess the time and financial impact of scope change and communicate to stakeholders as appropriate • Identifies when to use experiments for learning and solutioning • Be commercially aware: Understand the status of the budget of your projects and be able to report on them back to the company • Allocation management of project needs in conjunction with your squad composition • Facilitate wider engagement with internal and external stakeholders, and partners engaged in delivery • Build a partnership relationship with clients, understanding their business imperatives as context for helping align the team on those goals • Understand the workings and needs of the account you are partnered with • Communicate regularly; be proactive in facing difficult conversations • Manage your interactions with clients and internal team professionally, and personably • Using data to allow the team and wider business to make critical decisions • Develop creative and technical judgement and strive for high quality output • Share progress and communicate to internal and external stakeholders • Conduct team reviews and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement • Endorse and present appropriate metrics to sustain continuous improvement to get the best out of each team. Report progress, team status, and issues across the board.

🎯 Requirements

• Scrum Master certification or qualification, or equivalent work experience • Experience applying scrum, a wider awareness of agile principles, and a data driven mindset • Enterprise agency environment experience • Highly developed skills in servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency • Experience in using a wide range of project management tools such as, budget/time tracking tools and issue tracking software with the depth of knowledge to recommend the right tools for a project • Proficiency in written and oral communication in English, and ability to utilise and parse through technical terminology comfortably • Broad understanding of web technologies such as HTML/HTML5, CSS, CMS, Javascript, and version control

🏖️ Benefits

• Gain experience working in an agency, without a long term commitment • Work alongside some of the WordPress industry’s top engineers • Access to Slack channels which will open up plenty of opportunities to network with other WordPress peers at Human Made • The opportunity to explore Human Made with the potential of becoming a full-time employee