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People and Technology. It’s That Simple.
At Ascent, we solve supply chain challenges for thousands of customers worldwide. With $2 billion in revenue and a dedicated team of 1,000+ industry experts in 21 locations across North America, we are a recognized supplier of the year for multiple Fortune 500 companies as well as a partner to thousands of small and medium sized businesses. Our global reach, deep knowledge and innovative technology platform PEAK uniquely position our team to flawlessly execute in delivering goods worldwide via all modes. Our #1 market share in the demanding domestic ground and air expedite market has provided us the foundation to handle even the most complex logistics challenges. Our offerings include truckload, less-than-truckload, global forwarding, air charter, specialized and expedite solutions. We move over 250,000 shipments annually through our competitive freight marketplace.
Our Mission
We elevate the world of logistics through passion and innovation.
What You’ll Do
As a Technical Product Scrum Master, you will play a critical role in ensuring our development teams deliver value each iteration, and that our projects are delivered on-time. You will work directly with multiple teams to coordinate development activities, remove blockers, and champion them to be the best developers they can be!
- Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
- Manage development projects and facilitates sprint releases
- Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
- Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
- Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
- Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
- Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
- Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
- Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
- Implement and support principles, rules and processes
- Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
- Maintain team data in project management software (Azure DevOps) to support estimates and execution
- Provide detailed tracking and estimations to project leadership and Senior Management
- Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
- Manage other special projects as assigned
- Other duties as needed
What You’ll Bring
- BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints
- Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
- Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
- Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
- Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
- Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
- Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
- Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
- Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
- Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
- Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
- Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
- Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
- Self-motivated, organized
Ascent’s Competitive Benefits
- 401(k) and employer matching
- Life Insurance
- Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Short- & Long-Term Disability
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Wellness Program
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Recognition Programs
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Overtime, Differential & Bonus Pay
