Scrum Master

Job Description

NBCUniversal’s Enterprise Product team supports critical technology platforms across NBCU’s media businesses. Within Ad Technology & Integration, the team drives the digital ad technology ecosystem that powers NBCU’s billion-dollar advertising business.

We ensure reliable ad delivery across streaming, mobile, desktop, and set-top box platforms and continually improve our tools, processes, and operational efficiency.

We're looking for a collaborative Scrum Master to lead cross-functional Ad Technology programs and guide Product Owners, QA teams, Integration Leads, and key stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects of medium to large scale through sprints/iterations and phases of the project. Requirements gathering from the business users and ability to work with the business partners on clear and concise project status and communications.
• Facilitate sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other related events.
• In partnership with the product owner, work with the scrum team on user story sizing and acceptance criteria definition, the definition of minimum viable product, and continuous refinement and prioritization the product backlog.
• Communicate team metrics per agile tracking system and provide transparency regarding sprint/release progress to all teams and management.
• Facilitate discussion, conflict resolution, and have the ability to track and remove impediments efficiently
• Promote continuous improvement and help teams to increase velocity by providing direction for project activities to ensure successful implementation provide strategic thinking and tactical execution and promote a collaborative team environment that fosters experimentation, creativity and innovation.
• Update company program management systems for status, assist in the preparation and analysis of budgets and forecasts and resource capacity planning.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• 3+ years of Scrum Master experience.
• Experience with SAFe, and excellent working knowledge of Atlassian workflows and operations.
• Scrum Master certification is a must with SAFe Agilist experience.

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience managing global projects teams with competing priorities, diverse business objectives, and time zones constraints
• Ability to collect information from multiple sources, document concepts using data + visualizations, and present complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience within media and entertainment industry
• Experience with Microsoft 365
• Experience in IT, Agile Product & App Development environment highly preferred
• Experience with JIRA, Lucidchart, Smartsheet, Tableau or PowerBI
• Program Management Professional (PgMP), Project Management Professional (PMP), and/or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certifications a plus

Additional Requirements:

• Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.

This position is eligible for company-sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.

Salary range: $90,000 - $130,000

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].