Detroit, MI, USA
490 days ago
Scrum Master - Project Manager

As a scrum master / project manager, you are responsible for running a highly efficient engineering team, facilitating execution and championing communication. You coordinate across departments to make sure that product goals encompass business imperatives. You balance business requirements with engineering needs in order to build stable infrastructure we can sell with confidence.

Responsibilities
Your main areas of responsibility that will have the greatest impact are keeping the team organized, focused and facilitating communication between teams.

Daily Responsibilities
ensure all JIRA tickets have acceptance criteria (or: problem/solution format), story point estimates
make sure every developer writes into the standup slack channel
run the daily engineering check-in calls
make sure developers are responding to support requests in the support channels
check-ins on daily (async) standups

Periodic Responsibilities
follow up about the ROI of previous features and product work as compared to the estimates
run all sprint planning meetings
keep up with developers on personal goals
ensure scheduling for all sprint planning meetings
attend Level 10 Product/Engineering and gather ratings for the meeting
ensure remote developers are attending the 9:45 tuesday meeting
ensure developers are keeping up with company-assigned tasks (like annual reviews, reading top-picks emails)

Sprint Responsibilities
collect feedback during sprint retrospectives and take action on them
participate in post mortems on downtime or degraded service events
effectively manage the work of the team from planned sprint and prioritized backlog
ensure all reported bugs are documented (ticketed)
work with product owner to maintain the backlog
assist team with identifying, communicating and resolving blockers (prior to and mid-sprint)
communicate any deviations from planned work
protect the team from (business or self-inflicted) distractions and stay focused
protect team from over-committing during planning and find a balance to avoid complacency
facilitate ticket flow, ensuring applicable tasks are properly reviewed and tested according to process

Requirements
you are solutions oriented: "it's about the who not the what"
you are open minded and willing to think outside the box
you radiate knowledge about Benzinga's products and services
producing high quality products is fundamental to your being
you care about our customers and you care about your colleagues
you believe that attention to detail now will save time later
you work smarter not harder wherever possible, leveraging all available tooling to automate whatever can be automated

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