Junior Scrum Master
Junior Scrum Master Fort Worth, Texas, United States Come Work for Us! Join our growing team of experts dedicated to helping clients simplify and strengthen their marketing efforts. Xpressdocs is a leader in the direct marketing industry with its innovative software solutions, serving enterprise and franchise users. We offer a robust platform that integrates print, email, social media, and online ad campaigns. Users can tailor and order comprehensive marketing materials, including direct mail, both digital and offset printing, custom packaging, and more. Our services cater to hundreds of national brands across real estate, professional services, franchises, and healthcare sectors. Xpressdocs is looking for a Junior Scrum Master to support the adoption of Agile methodologies and cultivate a Lean-Agile culture within the technology teams. Your role involves facilitating Scrum ceremonies, supporting team decision-making, and helping resolve conflicts. By providing guidance and coaching to the teams towards greater maturity, you will also assist in improving inter-team communications and contribute to metric-driven decision-making for effective capacity planning. Your leadership will nurture an environment that promotes fun, collaboration, open communication, and customer focus. In this position, you will:
- Agile Coaching: Help teams grasp Agile values and principles and guide them in adopting Agile and Scaled Agile frameworks.
- Training Support: Participate in Agile methodology training sessions for new team members to help establish consistent practices.
- Scrum Support: Assist in organizing and facilitating Scrum events while encouraging team participation in Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Refinements, Retrospectives and PI planning.
- Progress Tracking: Assist in creating dashboards to monitor team progress and support metric-driven planning and reviews.
- Continuous Learning: Support the implementation of techniques to enhance team collaboration, transparency, and efficiency to promote continuous improvement.
- Tools Familiarity: Familiarize yourself with tools such as JIRA and support teams in utilizing its features effectively to streamline Scrum processes.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and address obstacles that impede organizational agility.
To be successful in this role, you should have:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience: 1-2 years of experience working in Agile environments, with exposure to Scrum practices and the role of a Scrum Master.
- Certification: Entry-level Agile certification, with Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification required or expected within the first 3 months of employment..
- Agile Exposure: Basic understanding of Agile methodologies, with exposure to frameworks like Scrum and SAFe.
- Skills: Developing, coaching, mentoring, and facilitation skills. Keen interest in process development and improving communication within teams.
- Tools: Familiarity with tools like JIRA is a plus, and a willingness to learn more about software development practices.
What We Offer: An environment that prioritizes balance between work and family. Our comprehensive benefits package and workplace opportunities include:
- Collaborate with an upbeat team of techies, creatives, and specialists…who actually like what they do.
- Enjoy our modern, secure and centrally located office in Fort Worth
- Flexible work from home options
- Onsite coffee bar and wellness rooms
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- 401K with company matching
- Paid holidays, vacation, and personal time
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee awards program
- A dedicated social platform for peer, work anniversary and birthday recognition
Who We Are: A Marketing/Print/Technology company with more than 20 years of experience helping some of today’s top companies simplify and strengthen their marketing. We provide cutting-edge but accessible marketing technology, produce high-quality marketing materials, and create world-class customer experiences. We take our solutions seriously, but we don’t take ourselves seriously. To learn more about what we do and who we serve, visit www.xpressdocs.com. Xpressdocs provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Apply Job!