Sr Scrum Lead (Open to Atlanta

Who You’ll Work With

The Sr. Scrum Lead is a member of the Portfolio team reporting to the Portfolio Director and will work with engineering teams, other scrum leads, product managers, and business stakeholders to ensure we are delivering quality work with speed while always improving.

Who We Are Looking For

The Sr. Scrum Lead is a coach, a change leader, and a teammate who is focused on always improving. They understand agile principles and can apply those to a variety of teams and working styles. The Sr. Scrum Lead can collaborate with both technical and business stakeholders from different cultures and geographies to move work forward and align people to a single vision. Using strong facilitation skills, they can facilitate effective team meetings that create an environment of inclusion and trust while holding themselves and teammates accountable.

• This position is open to a remote work option; candidates must reside in the greater Atlanta metro area.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Computer Science or a combination of relevant education, training, and experience Deep understanding of agile principles and practices and how to apply these to grow high performing teams
• 4+ years experience as a scrum lead, product or program manager, or work with teams using agile practices
• Experience with Jira, Trello, VersionOne, or other Agile Portfolio Management tools
• Flexibility to collaborate with teammates in India 1 – 2 times per week
• SAFe, Certified Scrum Master, or other professional certifications are a plus
• Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent combination experience and training
  
  

What You’ll Work On

You will be accountable for guiding multiple teams through the scrum or kanban framework with a sharp focus on delivery excellence and continuous improvement. You are responsible for helping the team collaborate using agile practices and mindsets, coordinating with other scrum leads to help manage dependencies, and remove blockers.

• Support several engineering teams, leading them through Scrum ceremonies or Kanban practices and enable continuous improvement efforts using agile metrics
• Lead a technology domain (multiple engineering teams) through quarterly planning activities, including regular ceremonies to build and maintain a domain backlog
• Interface with business partners and other scrum leads to support a team’s backlog development
• Hold a team to enterprise standards while allowing them flexibility when needed to deliver to their full potential
• Collaborate with other Scrum Leads and the Portfolio team to continuously improve our delivery practices across Converse Technology
• Provide a point of view on agile ways of working from industry best practices, Nike recommendation, and previous experience to improve our organization
  
  

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.