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Scrum Master/Project Manager
Integral Ad Science
New York, NY, United States
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We’re building out our Project Management department, and we’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Scrum Master/Project Manager to join our team of collaborative, proactive communicators in NYC.
This position offers huge opportunities to directly influence how teams are organized and how work gets done at IAS in order to improve the overall efficiency of our product development teams, as well as to contribute to developing a company culture of ownership, transparency and respect.
What you’ll do:
• Work across the organization to drive for clarity and alignment around deliverables, process, and execution path for product development and research projects.
• Advocate for and educate others on Agile and Scrum.
• Effectively implement Agile/Scrum.
• Serve as Scrum Master for development scrum teams, including organizing and facilitating planning, stand-up, retrospective and demo meetings as well as ensuring that sprint documentation materials (such as the backlog, scrum board, etc) are maintained.
• Build strong working relationships with Tech Leads and Product Owners, and support them in leading development scrum teams.
• Act as a resource for development scrum teams, and assist them in resolving questions and blockers and getting what they need to effectively do their jobs.
• Facilitate the Release planning process for development scrum teams, collaborating closely with Tech Leads and Product Owners, and track progress against Release goals.
• Do any necessary additional project management to ensure that projects move forward efficiently, such as holding project check-in meetings, creating tracking documentation, etc.
• Identify issues contributing to lack of clarity or reduced efficiency and work across the organization to proactively address them.
• Ensure that development teams are functioning as efficiently and effectively as possible to execute against highest value priorities.
Skills and experience:
• 7 years industry experience with at least 3 years of scrum management, including experience with the full software development cycle, as well as experience serving as Scrum Master and doing successful project management for product, development and/or data science teams.
• Familiarity with big data technology, products, and development processes.
• Highly organized.
• Experience tracking and communicating progress and risks, and removing and/or escalating impediments.
• Proactive focus on outcome and getting results, with clear vision of what it takes to get projects done.
• Ability to consistently keep the big picture in mind and remember what’s most important, even while managing multiple projects/teams and handling lots of details.
• Willingness to be flexible and experiment with processes in order to get the best result for each team, without creating too much overhead or imposing a system wholesale onto all teams.
• Ability to constantly assess a situation or team holistically, and accurately diagnose what’s working and what’s causing problems.
• People-oriented approach, knowing that successful projects rely on people being able to successfully do their part of the work.
• Excellent, respectful, and nuanced communication skills, including the ability to communicate diplomatically and with sensitivity while still “telling it like it is”.
• Ability to listen empathetically and assess critical information from different parties with different interests and perspectives, and to lead productive negotiation discussions.
• Experience leading through influence.
Preferred skills and experience:
• Experience in Ad Tech.
• Past engineering and/or product management experience.
• Experience working with JIRA.
• Experience with Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, or other similar self-awareness and communication practices.
About Integral Ad Science
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global technology and data company that builds verification, optimization, and analytics solutions to empower the advertising industry to effectively influence consumers everywhere, on every device. We solve the most pressing problems for brands, agencies, publishers, and technology companies by verifying that every impression has the opportunity to be effective, optimizing towards opportunities to consistently improve results, and analyzing digital’s impact on consumer actions. Built on data science and engineering, IAS is headquartered in New York with global operations in ten countries. Our growth and innovation have been recognized in Inc. 500, Crain’s Fast 50, Forbes America’s Most Promising Companies, and I-COM’s Smart Data Marketing Technology Company. IAS was also named to Crain’s Best Places to Work in NYC for four years running, Great Companies to Work For in NYS, and AdAge's list of Best Places to Work in the US.
To learn more about us, please visit www.integralads.com or http://bit.ly/glassdoorIAS
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