Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Scrum Master II

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $87,300.00 - $130,900.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

As a Scrum Master, you will take ownership of developing scrum teams that deliver exceptional results to achieve business outcomes, irrespective of the challenges the team may encounter.  Your team will use an inspect and adapt cycle to continuously improve the delivery of valuable, working software, and they will take complete responsibility for failures without looking for excuses.  This team will have a laser focus on the creation of valuable, working software and will utilize a collaborative process that minimizes defects, rework, and time spent on work that will never contribute to delivering value to clients.  The team will use sufficient and effective communication to create a shared consciousness of current state, desired state and a shared understanding of quality, value, and time to market goals.  This team will set and consistently achieve sprint goals and all members of the team will experience work as both sustainable and challenging.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Knowledge of the scrum framework has been acquired through self study.  You have an understanding of the scrum framework from actively reading sources on the framework.  You can converse on the framework and you have a basic understanding of the components. 

A genuine interest and passion for assessing the human factor within teams and how it impacts the working environment.   You look at the human system of a team and seek to understand it and evolve it. 

Exceptional verbal skills demonstrated by the ability to effectively communicate ideas, goals, concepts to a diverse team of people. Exceptional listening skills and the ability to be extremely targeted in your responses. 

Comfortable with conflict and you do not get derailed by conflict.  You actively seek ways to apply resolution techniques in those situations.  You are always trying to understand the root issue when engaged in these types of discussions. 

You are extremely curious and always wanting to gain more knowledge and understanding, never being satisfied with your current level of knowledge.  

You maintain a high level of intellectual integrity, if something does not make sense you speak up and seek clarification.  You are not satisfied with “just because” type answers.   

Experience with public speaking and you possess the ability to read and assess an audience with the intent of adapting your delivery to effectively communicate. 

Over 5 years’ work experience in a team-oriented work environment where you learned about team dynamics and the types of issues that can impact and impede team performance. 

Bachelor’s degree in Math, Sciences, Computer Science, or a Master’s degree in those fields would be a benefit, or a Masters in Psychology. 

 

Expectations: 

Facilitate the pragmatic use of Agile ceremonies that produce the benefits intended by the agile framework and enable the organization to deliver products incrementally using inspect and adapt cycles. 

Actively identify, manage and communicate impediments to expedite resolution.   

Work with scrum master peers for coaching and mentoring on the scrum master role so you can grow in the role. 

Observation of team dynamics, to recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coach them to improve. 

Drive high performance and collaboration in teams that hold themselves accountable and interact constructively within the team and outside of the team with all members of the organization. 

Own the use of an accurate, complete, readable, single source for artifacts and workflow information that the organization needs in order to engage in continuous planning, observe/monitor work in progress, and quantify the inspect and adapt cycle at the scrum team level.   

Coach the team on writing user stories that ultimately enable scrum team focus and prioritization 

Facilitate the identification of delivery focused solutions to address true root cause of issues 

Own full alignment across dependent teams within a release train; manage risks and dependencies such that all parties are aligned with delivery strategy and sequence.  Drive over-communication as necessary to ensure a shared understanding of dependencies. 

Drive scrum team accountability for ensuring the sprint commitment is less than / very close to the average velocity over the last five sprints, maximizing the likelihood of delivery on sprint commitments. 

 

WHO YOU ARE:

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education2 - 5 years of working experience as a dedicated Scrum MasterWorking experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or KanbanWorking experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFeScrum Master certification or equivalent certified professionalMust live within a commutable distance to the Austin TX office and be comfortable coming into the office multiple times a week

Drug Testing

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

About Us

Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.