Senior Scrum Master – Entertainment Industry
Location: Culver City, CA Hybrid 2x on site a week
Pay Rate: $80-$100 / HR
6-month W-2 assignment with strong potential to extend/convert to FTE
Our client, a top entertainment and motion picture company, is seeking a Scrum Master to join The Agile Transformation, Enablement, and Operations team for Technical Accounting, Compliance, and Agility. Gain exposure with a top motion picture/ entertainment company in a role that has the potential to convert to an FTE. Full Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401k benefits are provided.
Main Responsibility – Coach and consult various teams on how to manage their big projects. Candidates should be familiar with scrum / agile and be able to provide examples of Agile leaders they look up to and follow! Looking for a passionate, motivated, goal-oriented individual that is ready to get rolling, growing, and developing!
Job Duties:
- Guide and coach scrum and/or agile teams on best practices and principles to deliver high-quality products and services to customers
- Facilitate and support all scrum events: sprint planning, daily scrum, spring review, and sprint retrospective
- Main projects overseeing: Agile teams assigned to BAU (business as usual), corporate projects, and initiatives
- Help teams improve and thrive in their performance by celebrating strengths and coaching weaknesses until they are strengths
- Act as the key contact and compliance for scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
- Collaborate with external stakeholders to support organizational projects or product teams
- Work with agile coaches and other scrum masters to grow within the role
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of product or project development experience
- CSM or SAFe certification is preferred
- Ability to empathetically work with all types of people
- JIRA experience as an admin
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
- Scrum and Kanban framework understanding with in-depth project management principles and best practices experience
- Experience with refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection
Please submit a resume in Word or PDF format to be considered.