Associate Manager, Product; Scrum Master

Position: Associate Manager, Product (Scrum Master)
About the Company

Affinity is pioneering new frontiers in AdTech: developing solutions that push past today’s limits and open up new opportunities. We are a global AdTech company helping publishers discover better ways to monetize and enabling advertisers to reach the right audiences through new touchpoints. Operating across 10+ markets in Asia, the US, and Europe with a team of over 575+ experts, we are building privacy-first ad infrastructure that opens up opportunities beyond the walled gardens.

Position:
Associate Manager, Product (Agile Scrum Master)
Base

Location:

Mumbai
Type of role:
Individual Contributor

About the Role

We are looking for people who are passionate about Agile ways of working and want to spread Scrum framework across our teams and business processes. The Scrum Master will be a change agent that can work with people and teams to help them improve and deliver their best work. You will be responsible to setup Agile Squads working on SCRUM framework within one of our business units.

You will work directly with the Squads to advise and oversee performance against Agile values, practices and ceremonies such as stand ups, sprint planning and retrospectives. Working with Product team, you will be a key player in managing the work of multiple Squads by maintaining the backlog, facilitating Agile ceremonies and making sure your Squads are practicing true Agile working practices.

You will monitor the Squad's team performance and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work better and smarter. You will support the “new way of working” and Agile principles and practices at the Scrum meetings. You will also be highly skilled in communicating with diverse teams, quickly understanding group dynamics and not being afraid to raise issues and drive change to remove impediments from teams.

You will be expected to take immediate ownership and lead the transformation and adoption towards Scrum methodology.

Responsibilities

Enable the organization’s new way of working
Modelling behaviours to support the organization’s transformation to a new way of working
Actively creating and maintaining the culture within the Squad based on the organization and Agile leadership behaviours
Embedding the “nervous system” of the new way of working (e.g., cross-functional collaboration, etc.) within your Squads
Work with squads to embed and reinforce Agile practices and behaviours
Work with senior leadership to facilitate and lead Agile ways of working within the squads
Being primary person responsible for facilitating and leading the running of Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand ups, retrospectives and other Agile ceremonies across multiple Squads
Providing thought leadership and constructive feedback as a SME to team members to help drive Agile maturity, knowledge and effective communication
Partner with your Product teams to manage and prioritize work through the backlog and manage other scrum artifacts
Reviewing and managing backlog items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate
Ensuring work is appropriately balanced across team members and that all work is captured within the backlog
Enable Squads to realize their mission and deliver on their KPIs
Driving members to anticipate and resolve potential blockers (e.g., resource constraints that prevent the Squad from doing its best work)
Ensuring that Squads and Tribes are interacting with dependent stakeholders effectively (e.g., with Senior Leadership, Module Leads and Product Managers)
Maintaining and updating squad process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and transparent communications to Product Owner and other stakeholders
Creating burn-down charts to measure squad output over time and track Squad output through dashboards and other reporting systems
Identify continuous improvement opportunities and best practices to progress the work of the squad
Engaging and partnering with Agile Coaches to help identify and deliver against training needs to support Agile practices
Observing and engaging with individual Squad members to identify opportunities to improve Agile performance and effectiveness

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