The Job:

The Lead Scrum Master has primary responsibility of facilitating the learning and growth of one or more Agile teams in developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices and guiding them to more predictable delivery. The Lead Scrum Master plays a role in facilitating Agile ceremonies and planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting up to 4 Agile teams.

Your role:

Backlog Management Practices

• Works with Product Owners and team members to learn and practice healthy backlog management and prioritization practices
• Facilitates the execution and improvement of backlog refinement
• Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams
• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination
  

Agile Ceremony Facilitation

• Facilitates Agile ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management
• Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process
• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments
  

Delivery Team Support

• Removes impediments to the team's ability to perform
• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions
• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution
• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization
• Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements
• Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems
  

Ability to:

• Continuously seek to improve solution development processes and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement consistent across the organization.
• Enable stakeholder engagement/ communications plans, for example; handling of complaints; problems and issues; managing resolutions; corrective actions and lessons learned; collection and dissemination of relevant information.
• Use feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
• Help develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Advice/coach others in learning delivery techniques and options.
  

What We Look For:

• Bachelor's degree and 6 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related professional experience
• 6+ years' experience as a Scrum Master
• Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or Kanban
• Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe
• Working experience with Rally, Jira, or Confluence
• SAFe or Scrum Master certification preferred
  

To be employed in this role, you'll need to clear a pre-employment background check and drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently consider 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.

About Cox Automotive

At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!

About Cox

Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!

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.

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