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Breakthrough Energy Ventures Portfolio Company Career Opportunities

Sr. Scrum Master

SparkMeter

SparkMeter

Product
Washington, DC, USA
Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2023

At SparkMeter our mission is to electrify everything and everyone. We help utilities and governments make the transition to electrification while providing affordable, reliable, clean power. We don’t care where in the world you are or how big or small you are. We are particularly interested in solving these problems in underserved markets that are served by outdated incumbents.

SparkMeter is searching for a Senior Scrum Master. This role that will lead multiple remote scrum teams in a complex technical environment. This role will work closely with product managers and hardware, firmware, back-end and front-end engineers for our multi-tenant SaaS applications, mobile app and electric utility metering solutions.

What you will be doing:

  • Work with product managers to understand business strategy, product and feature roadmaps
  • Scope and assess projects and define target deliverable dates with the team
  • Facilitate daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective ceremonies for remote teams
  • Remove internal and external impediments for the team as their servant leader
  • Proactively mitigate risks and dependencies
  • Actively guide the team to deliver to committed deadlines
  • Collaborate across teams to ensure successful end-to-end solutions and timely delivery
  • Work with stakeholders and Product Owners to gather and document business and technical requirements into user stories containing detailed acceptance criteria, and other artifacts as needed (process flows, use cases, etc)
  • 5+ years of experience as a scrum master in an agile environment, leading multiple teams
  • Experience working in a business analyst or product owner role
  • Commercial product development experience
  • Technical background in software development or electronics
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • The desire and ability to collaborate with team members, business partners, and customers
  • Agile or PMP certifications a plus
  • Must be available to work EST hours, and flexibility for occasional non-standard hours to collaborate with team members across the globe

Nice to have

  • Software or hardware engineering experience
  • Experience working in the energy or utility industries
  • 401k with match
  • Annual bonus
  • Equity
  • Health insurance, with 100% of the premium covered for you, and 30% for your dependents
  • Paid vacation
  • 13 paid holidays