Senior Scrum Lead

The Strategy & Operations Team

The Strategy & Operations Team  within the broader Business Operations organization  is a world-class technology Organization that fuels Okta’s growth.

The Scrum Lead Opportunity

We are looking for a Scrum Lead that will report into a Senior Director/Director, Strategy & Operations.

As a Scrum Lead, you will be responsible for facilitating scrum team events across multiple teams. You will have strong scrum/agile/lean experience, be a motivated self-starter and have experience working in a SaaS environment.   This role requires a people-oriented approach with a high level of emotional intelligence, a desire to help team members grow and the ability to maintain transparency and collaboration in a fast changing and sometimes ambiguous environment.

What you’ll be doing 

• Lead the Scrum Team(s) in being Agile with a focus on a product-driven organization embracing a customer-focused product operating model
• Lead with a continuous improvement mindset, evolving the team’s practices to deliver business outcomes
• Facilitate and support all Scrum events, removing impediments, coaching and onboarding team members 
• Ensure critical blockers are removed and all parties are informed 
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Guide the Scrum Team and others to understand agile values, principles, and practices. Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of maturity and effective delivery of value to the customers
• Partner with the Product Owner and Delivery team to understand priorities, groom the backlog, and set and deliver on sprint and quarterly plans 
• Partner with Technical Program Managers to manage cross-functional programs with co-dependencies 

What you’ll bring to the role

• 5+ years’ experience running multiple scrum teams in a SaaS environment
• 5+ years’ experience coaching and mentoring technical Scrum teams
• Excellent knowledge of Agile Software Development 
• Excellent knowledge of Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence) and/or other work management/collaboration tools
• Knowledge and demonstrated ability in working with collaboration Tools (Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Lucid)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to analyze and think quickly to resolve roadblocks
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment and influence without authority 
• Self-motivated with the ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction
• Exposure and/or knowledge of  Business Systems such as Salesforce,  Financial Management, Workday, etc

And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! 

• Graduate coursework a plus
• Scrum Leader certification preferred (CSM, A-CSM, etc)
• Product Owner certification or equivalent preferred (CSPO, etc)

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