Job Description

Role: Scrum Master

Location: Bengaluru

What you\'ll do

We\'re MiQ, a global programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so you will be too. No matter the role or the location, we\'re all united in the vision to lead the programmatic industry and make it better.

As a Scrum Master, you\'ll have the chance to:

- Scrum Mastering for high performance technology teams

- Agility catalyst/evangelist and driver of best practices through monitoring

- Ensure high quality and timely release & support of products

- Clears project obstacles and impediments that could slow down the team\'s progress and appropriate delegate tasks and actions to right stakeholders

- Coordinating the projects and their interdependencies

- Own and drive continuous improvements and health checks across teams

- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and ensure that the improvement backlog is taken to completion

- Facilitating Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review and retrospectives

- Facilitating the creation of BRD, Epics, user stories, Requirements definition and elicitation and translation to Jira

- Monitor project progress and resolve any issues and impediments the team may be experiencing

- Tracking and reporting team progress and sprint performance and identify areas of continuous improvement

- Coach the team to be self-organizing and cross-functional

- Capacity planning, managing and utilizing resources across projects, Arrange and optimise product backlog

- Escalating when there are no time bound resolution to issues with alternate approaches

- Strong exposure in collecting improvement metrics, monitoring metrics and current status metrics

- Collaborate with Market, team stakeholders and leadership

- Help the team boost their productivity and performance

- Collaborate with Analytics centre of excellence and manage cross functional dependencies and tasks with other scrum masters to improve the implemented processes and metrics

- Act as a leader to the Solution/product development team

- Staying updated with the latest Agile methodologies and practices

- Should have JIRA/Confluence experience

- Ensure product delivery is happening effectively and efficiently

- Presenting regular updates on the progress to different stakeholders, establishing a communication framework

- Identify, design and publish the metrics that helps team continuously improve and deliver on the backlog effectively.

Who are your stakeholders?

- Employees Primary stakeholders will be Local Products team and its leadership

- The Secondary stakeholder will be Other DnA (AoE) leadership

- The Role will also be interacting with leads of Products and will closely work with all members of PMO

What you\'ll bring:

- Possess a Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

- Experience of at least 2 years in project management

- Experience of having been a Scrum Master for at least 2-3 team in parallel

- Minimum industry experience of 4 years

- Leadership skills to build high performance teams

- Continuously raise the bar on quality

- Strong communication, influence, negotiation and presentation skills

- Ability to collaborate smoothly across multiple functions spread across multiple geographies

- Great attention to detail

- Stay up to date with the latest scrum best practices

- Experience working on JIRA

- A scrum master certification (CSM) would be a strong plus

- You have excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills

- You possess strong problem-solving and prioritisation skills

- Data driven approach to for Troubleshooting

- Understanding of ITSM framework

- Should Have experience in Analytics or IT industry

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills that is used in Data driven analysis and decision making

We\'ve highlighted some key skills, experience and requirements for this role. But please don\'t worry if you don\'t meet every single one. Our talent team strives to find the best people. They might see something in your background that\'s a fit for this role, or another opportunity at MiQ. If you have a passion for the role, please still apply.

What impact will you create?

In the backdrop of 2027 vision on sustainable growth

- The Role intends to build a Develop Sustained SCRUM/Agile process and culture for Local products in specific to Scale Remove Inefficiencies so that the resources can be freed up for more value adding work

- Help Team prioritise the efforts towards value adding solutions

- Enable Cross-collaboration b/w Local product team, Analytics Center of Excellence (AoE) and Products and hence drive lean with optimised Resources

- Provide reporting of Local products team and other Non Market Project within DnA to help the leadership make strategic decisions

What\'s in it for you?

Our Center of Excellence is the very heart of MiQ, and it\'s where the magic happens. It means everything you do and everything you create will have a huge impact across our entire global business.

MiQ is incredibly proud to foster a welcoming culture. We do everything possible to make sure everyone feels valued for what they bring. With global teams committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we\'re always moving towards becoming an even better place to work.

Values:

Our values are so much more than statements. They unite MiQers in every corner of the world. They shape the way we work and the decisions we make. And they inspire us to stay true to ourselves and to aim for better. Our values are there to be embraced by everyone, so that we naturally live and breathe them. Just like inclusivity, our values flow through everything we do - no matter how big or small.

- We do what we love - Passion

- We figure it out - Determination

- We anticipate the unexpected - Agility

- We always unite - Unite

- We dare to be unconventional - Courage

Benefits:

Every region and office have specific perks and benefits, but every person joining MiQ can expect:

- A hybrid work environment

- New hire orientation with job specific onboarding and training

- Internal and global mobility opportunities

- Competitive healthcare benefits

- Bonus and performance incentives

- Generous annual PTO paid parental leave, with two additional paid days to acknowledge holidays, cultural events, or inclusion initiatives.

- Employee resource groups designed to connect people across all MiQ regions, drive action, and support our communities.

Apply today!

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