Published: Dec 15, 2025 - The Scrum Master facilitates agile software delivery across distributed cross-functional teams for global media industry projects. This role involves proactively planning releases, aligning progress with stakeholders, ensuring adherence to Scrum practices, and removing impediments to team efficiency. The master also coaches teams toward greater self-organization and maturity while tracking and reporting key project metrics to drive continuous improvement.

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1. Scrum Master, All In Solutions LLC, Stafford, VA
Job Summary:
- Train and coach the development team and stakeholders to implement the working process in accordance with the Agile framework
- Ensure the implementation team and stakeholders follow the Agile model process.
- Continuously refine and optimize the process so that the Implementation team can work most efficiently and quickly
- Coordinate all necessary resources (in terms of human and material) to help the team's working process develop to the highest efficiency and achieve the defined goals.
- Resolve internal and external problems to avoid distractions and interruptions for the development team.
- Early warning of risks and issues that the team is facing to support coordination and help the team handle them thoroughly.
- Report Agile implementation issues and statuses to management to gain information and make appropriate recommendations.
- Build a culture of cohesion among team members.
- Coordinate with departments to measure and evaluate the KPI/OKR of Agile teams.
- Collaborate with the Agile Coach and other SMs from teams to join to build a consistent Agile culture across teams.
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Process Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Process Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Resource Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Issue Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Status Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Team Cohesion (Soft Skills)
2. Scrum Master, Genisis Technology Solutions, West Palm Beach, FL
Job Summary:
- Support the team by promoting flow and removing impediments in their daily activities.
- Coach the team to follow the SAFe principles.
- Facilitate SAFe events like daily standup, iteration planning, PI Planning, etc.
- Help identify and follow up on work process improvements.
- Maintain and report work progress information of the team to interested parties.
- Help the product owner maintain and refine the Product backlog to be ready for planning and execution.
Skills on Resume:
- Flow Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Impediment Removal (Soft Skills)
- SAFe Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Event Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Progress Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Backlog Refinement (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
3. Scrum Master, Delviom LLC, Springfield, VA
Job Summary:
- Facilitates the team’s input for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
- Be responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of the scrum team in Agile methodology.
- Be responsible for removing the impediments for the scrum team.
- Arrange daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demos, and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of the adaptation process.
- Helps the product owner to make the product backlog in good shape and make it ready for the next sprint.
- Be responsible for conducting retrospective meetings.
- Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting.
- Acts as a safeguard for the team.
Skills on Resume:
- Team Creativity (Soft Skills)
- Scrum Management (Hard Skills)
- Impediment Removal (Soft Skills)
- Meeting Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Backlog Grooming (Hard Skills)
- Retrospective Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Sprint Planning (Hard Skills)
- Team Protection (Soft Skills)
4. Scrum Master, Changing Technologies, Inc., Durham, NC
Job Summary:
- Manage one or two software development teams using Scrum, Lean, and Agile methodologies.
- Empower the Scrum team and the organization for sustainable, continuous improvement, and an optimal working environment.
- Coordinate with Product Owners and stakeholders.
- Coach and train the development team in self-organization and the associated Scrum tools, including the Sprint Backlog, Taskboard, etc.
- Coach the team in the sustainable implementation of Scrum/Lean/Agile.
- Facilitate and moderate Scrum meetings.
- Define, maintain, and report on process and product quality.
Skills on Resume:
- Team Management (Soft Skills)
- Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Scrum Coaching (Hard Skills)
- Agile Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Meeting Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Quality Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Team Empowerment (Soft Skills)
5. Group Scrum Master, Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc., Washington, DC
Job Summary:
- Supporting the delivery of projects through the utilisation of Agile techniques and toolsets
- Leading governance activities for the project, including Change management, risk management, and lessons learned
- Interacting with teams both within and outside the Agile framework
- Reporting to the Programme Manager, assisting with the progression of daily activities as a Project Specialist
- Supporting the Group Product Owner as Scrum Master
- Leading and coaching a wider team (squads, group members) in its Scrum adoption
- Assisting the group by removing roadblocks
- Creating and acquiring metrics to support showcase events
- Ensuring the Jira environment is effectively mapped to support the delivery of product increments
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Delivery (Hard Skills)
- Governance Management (Hard Skills)
- Cross-team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Activity Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Scrum Support (Hard Skills)
- Scrum Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Roadblock Removal (Soft Skills)
- Metrics Creation (Hard Skills)
6. Scrum Master, Career Mentors, LLC, Chicago, IL
Job Summary:
- Leadership for the team, helping the team to improve its performance and achieve the best quality, user alignment, and value creation.
- Facilitating the adoption and application of Agile in the ways of working of the Product Team and the organization
- Ensuring people work together efficiently, using Scrum and other Agile Frameworks
- Interacting with a variety of stakeholders inside and outside the team, from all levels, to ensure the highest level of productivity of the team
- Removing impediments of any nature to ensure the team members are focused on delivery, acting as a shield for the team
Skills on Resume:
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Agile Adoption (Hard Skills)
- Scrum Enablement (Hard Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- Impediment Removal (Soft Skills)
- Productivity Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Team Shielding (Soft Skills)
7. Senior Scrum Master, Barrow Wise Consulting, Baltimore, MD
Job Summary:
- Act as an example in the role of a servant leader.
- Exhibit Lean-Agile leadership and help team members embrace agile values, adopting and applying agile Principles, and implementing agile practices.
- Identify dysfunctions within the team and help resolve them either by the team or by bringing them to the attention of leadership at the right time.
- Facilitates agile/team meetings, e.g., sprint kick-off, DSM, retrospective.
- Actively works with engineers and the Product Owner to negotiate and split work into smaller chunks
- Maintains situational awareness of ongoing and scheduled work
- Removes roadblocks, allowing the team to move forward
- Owns the team velocity measures and release forecasting
- Works with the Product Owner to continuously refine scheduling and estimation for the product roadmap and backlog
- Conduct a training or workshop on related topics (e.g., how to write good user stories, how to write acceptance criteria)
- Provides clear metrics (flow framework, velocity, burn-down, etc.) for both internal (scrum team) and external stakeholders
- Actively works to improve team performance with metrics and continuous process improvement based on team retrospectives
- Support the Delivery Lead with inter-team dependencies and communicate timely readiness well in advance.
Skills on Resume:
- Servant Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Agile Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Team Diagnosis (Soft Skills)
- Meeting Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Work Negotiation (Soft Skills)
- Roadblock Removal (Soft Skills)
- Release Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Performance Improvement (Hard Skills)
8. Scrum Master, Donan Consulting, Reston, VA
Job Summary:
- Manage new product features and enhancements in terms of scope, quality, and schedule within sprint cycles
- Provides hands-on management and coaching of scrum teams in all aspects of scrum (facilitating daily stand-up meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, calculating velocity, limiting work in progress, etc.)
- Be responsible for assuring quality user stories that meet organizational standards, which may require the Scrum Master to facilitate or assist with writing team-driven user stories
- Work effectively with program management and team members to clarify needs and plan the delivery of major product changes, future versions, and new products
- Proactively manage sprint-level risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, ensuring that they are identified, coordinated, and mitigated
- Remove impediments that would prevent the team from achieving its sprint and release goals (internal and external to the team)
- Review current agile processes, drive process improvements, and challenge the teams to innovate
- Effectively maintain and manage agile project management tools and processes, including documentation and artifacts
- Perform miscellaneous support tasks throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle
Skills on Resume:
- Feature Management (Hard Skills)
- Scrum Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Story Quality (Hard Skills)
- Delivery Planning (Soft Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Impediment Removal (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Tool Administration (Hard Skills)
9. Mid Level Scrum Master, Sequoia, Inc., Chantilly, VA
Job Summary:
- Serves as Liaison to business partners for proposed project initiatives
- Works with business partners to define project scope, goals, deliverables, and timeline in support of project initiatives
- Partners with the business product owner to manage product backlog, including prioritization and estimation
- Develops full-scale project plans and associated project documents.
- Plans and tracks project milestones, tasks, and timeline using appropriate tools
- Identifies and manages project dependencies and critical path items
- Determines resources needed to achieve project goals, proposes project team resources to management.
- Delegates tasks and responsibilities to the project team, throughout the project lifecycle, monitors resource utilization to determine needs for additional staff support
- Supports the project team by guiding Agile methodology and by working with the necessary resources to remediate issues impeding execution
- Supervises, coaches, mentors, and motivates project team members throughout the project lifecycle
- Identifies, manages, and works to resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
- Prepares necessary recommendations for staffing and issue resolution
- Conducts sprint planning and daily stand-up meetings, and coordinates sprint reviews with business stakeholders
- Develops and delivers progress reports (including assessments of schedules, issues, and risks, burndown, and velocity), proposals, and project documentation to the team, stakeholders, and various levels of management across the organization
- Identifies and manages change, issues, and risks to the project deliverables and timeline, and develops contingency plans as part of risk mitigation
- Schedules necessary meetings with project participants for obtaining and/or disseminating project information
- Effectively communicates project expectations on an ongoing basis to team members and stakeholders in a clear and timely fashion
- Communicates department standards and requirements to outside vendors
- Collaborates with all groups involved to develop and communicate deployment plans
- Works with stakeholders and management to define project success criteria, and communicates criteria to involved parties
- Conducts project wrap-up sessions, reviewing scope, accomplishments, issues, lessons learned, budget, and next actions
Skills on Resume:
- Business Liaison (Soft Skills)
- Scope Definition (Hard Skills)
- Backlog Management (Hard Skills)
- Project Planning (Hard Skills)
- Dependency Management (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Risk Mitigation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
10. Scrum Master, Forta Solutions, LLC, Mercer Island, WA
Job Summary:
- Facilitation of core Agile ceremonies appropriate to the chosen framework, ensuring that best practice techniques are adhered to
- Coach, mentor, educate, and inspire the assigned team, acting as an enabler for continuous improvement
- Ensure the adoption of Agile principles and practices and the implementation of these, leading to cross-functional maturity
- Challenge business stakeholders to think evolutionarily, supporting the transformation to Agile delivery methods
- Work with a suite of metrics that can be used to measure progress against product/project development and within the team's own performance
- Work closely with other Scrum Masters, contributing to the successful creation and development of a Community of Practice, promoting the Agile centre of excellence
- Become an ambassador for the Agile delivery frameworks
- Maintain the own competence within the role, continuously learning and developing new techniques.
Skills on Resume:
- Ceremony Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Team Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Agile Adoption (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Challenge (Soft Skills)
- Metrics Management (Hard Skills)
- Community Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Agile Advocacy (Soft Skills)
- Continuous Learning (Soft Skills)
11. Scrum Master, Infinity Marketing Team, LLC, Culver City, CA
Job Summary:
- Lead a change management plan involving strategic roadmaps, training, stakeholders and customer engagement, and further communication.
- Create and deliver workshops whilst managing expectations of stakeholders and customers.
- Coach and support the team to find efficiency and sustainability of pace.
- Present behaviours of a Lean-Agile Leader with an Agile mindset.
- Excel and empower Lean-Agile teams and removing barriers.
- Focus on the end goal and getting things done.
- Shows servant leadership behaviours towards the team and wider stakeholders.
Skills on Resume:
- Change Management (Hard Skills)
- Workshop Delivery (Hard Skills)
- Team Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Agile Mindset (Soft Skills)
- Barrier Removal (Soft Skills)
- Goal Orientation (Soft Skills)
- Servant Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Engagement (Hard Skills)
12. Scrum Master, Wellington Steele & Associates, Rochester, NY
Job Summary:
- Create, lead, and evolve the new SW Development team
- Team up with the Product Owner to organize the work and ensure a constant delivery of value
- Initiate and participate in technical discussions with the rest of the IT area
- Conduct Sprint Reviews and maximize the productivity of the team
- Apply market best practices in SW development
- Actively support the line manager to achieve the department's objectives
- Empower the team by delegating the right responsibilities to allow them to grow professionally
- Ensure proper documentation and knowledge sharing
- Apply Agile practices and values in the team and ensure the SCRUM framework
- Ensure the Product Owners arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value
- Coach the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
- Remove obstacles and help the Development Team to create high-value products
Skills on Resume:
- Team Development (Soft Skills)
- Work Organization (Hard Skills)
- Technical Collaboration (Hard Skills)
- Sprint Review (Hard Skills)
- Best Practices (Hard Skills)
- Team Empowerment (Soft Skills)
- Knowledge Sharing (Hard Skills)
- Agile Coaching (Soft Skills)
13. Scrum Master, Navtech, Inc., Jersey City, NJ
Job Summary:
- Deliver the optimisation project for the Customer Service function with the Product Owner to create, order, and maintain a Product Backlog, brokering negotiations between the Product Owner and the Scrum Development Team.
- Principles and sharing them across the organisation, role modelling key behaviours to support the adoption of a new way of working.
- Coach and provide constructive feedback to teams using Agile best practices and behaviours.
- Foster collaboration through Scrum teams to remove impediments and dependencies.
- Understand product planning in an empirical environment, helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development.
- Track team output through establishing metrics, dashboards, and other reporting systems.
- Bring a data-driven approach to decision-making, both in day-to-day activities and when helping others make strategic trade-offs.
- Collaborate with the Plan Agile Center of Excellence to adopt and use best practices.
- Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organisation (through the Scrum Master Community of Practice).
Skills on Resume:
- Backlog Management (Hard Skills)
- Agile Advocacy (Soft Skills)
- Team Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Impediment Removal (Soft Skills)
- Product Planning (Hard Skills)
- Metrics Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Data-driven Decisioning (Hard Skills)
- Practice Collaboration (Soft Skills)
14. Scrum Master, Resource Point LLC, Greenwood Village, CO
Job Summary:
- Coach multidisciplinary teams regarding agile working methodologies.
- Continuously improve the ways of working by facilitating and observing team meetings and coaching the teams by leveraging agile methodologies and mindset.
- Concept, moderate, and document workshops and coordinate their systematic follow-up.
- Maintain, update, and further develop systems and tools to support the agile working concept.
- Work closely with other colleagues from Change Management, Communication, and Learning, and other Agility Masters/Agile Coaches.
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Workshop Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Meeting Observation (Soft Skills)
- Tool Development (Hard Skills)
- System Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Cross-team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Change Partnership (Soft Skills)
15. Scrum Master, Sunshine Enterprise USA LLC, Columbia, SC
Job Summary:
- Participating proactively in the planning of releases
- Continuously align progress with the team and management
- Ensuring the scrum process is followed efficiently and removing barriers
- Participating in the project for global companies from the media industry
- Facilitating the software delivery in multiple distributed cross-functional teams
- Tracking and reporting key project metrics, informing stakeholders
- Guiding the development team on how to get the most value out of self-organization
- Coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
Skills on Resume:
- Release Planning (Hard Skills)
- Progress Alignment (Soft Skills)
- Scrum Enforcement (Hard Skills)
- Barrier Removal (Soft Skills)
- Delivery Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Metrics Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Self-organization Guidance (Soft Skills)
- Team Maturity (Soft Skills)
16. Scrum Master, AlgoBrain Inc, Bronx, NY
Job Summary:
- Leading, coaching, and evolving the team, creating a culture of excellence that will allow them professional growth
- Leading the work in a complex data-intensive environment, including ETLs, Streaming Processes, Data Lakes, ML models, Data Services, Web Scraping for data sourcing, and several DB typologies
- Delivering Data as the final product, ensuring its overall quality and accuracy using the right QA strategies
- Keeping up to date on all relevant Data disciplines, including learning, innovating, applying best practices, being aware of lessons learned, and suggesting improvements
- Leading the initiatives and projects in a proactive way
- Helping with the coordination of Data projects and initiatives between the different stakeholders across teams
- Mapping business and technical requirements into actionable initiatives, reporting and analyzing results promptly, and learning from any mistakes
- Understanding and evaluating risk factors and the possible impact of the projects
- Maintaining strong working relationships through detail-oriented and effective communication
Skills on Resume:
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Data Engineering (Hard Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Continuous Learning (Soft Skills)
- Project Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Requirements Mapping (Hard Skills)
- Risk Evaluation (Hard Skills)
17. Scrum Master, CohesionForce Inc., Huntsville, AL
Job Summary:
- Removing roadblocks and inefficiencies helps the team stay focused on the tasks that need to be done during each sprint.
- Leading and facilitating the regular key Scrum team meetings (e.g., sprint retrospectives, planning, daily scrums).
- Working with the Product Owner and the Scrum team to foster a culture of continuous improvement, including adapting, refining, and improving processes.
- Ensuring that team members understand their role, take ownership of their deliverables, and understand Agile processes, always aiming for the team to become self-managed.
- Networking with other Scrum Masters, looking for best practise to bring into the team.
- Working with the Agile Coaches to truly embed the Agile processes
Skills on Resume:
- Roadblock Removal (Soft Skills)
- Meeting Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Role Clarity (Soft Skills)
- Team Ownership (Soft Skills)
- Self-management Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Best-practice Sharing (Soft Skills)
- Agile Embedding (Hard Skills)
18. Software Quality Scrum Master, National Restaurant Association Solution, Chicago, IL
Job Summary:
- Own and manage the project plan at a high level for the entire team.
- Report out at regular intervals.
- Help the agile team focus on creating high-value product increments that meet requirements.
- Ensure that scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
- Safekeep and deploy methods for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.
- Provide system and software quality expertise in the development of Reliable embedded software solutions.
- Support audits/assessments in the project regarding reparation and follow up on findings to maintain departmental and company standards and procedures
- Tailor centralised system and software development strategies, software verification strategies, and tool qualification strategies to suit the project needs.
- Ensure adherence to JLR system and software engineering processes, standards, plans, and frameworks
- Establish and deploy best technical practice, knowledge transfer in terms of formal training and mentoring regarding Software Quality Processes, Procedures, Plans, and Standards.
- Engage with suppliers on System and Software Quality matters.
- Leverage industry standard techniques and best practices to influence the system and software development process.
Skills on Resume:
- Project Planning (Hard Skills)
- Progress Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Value Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Scrum Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Backlog Management (Hard Skills)
- Software Quality (Hard Skills)
- Audit Support (Hard Skills)
- Supplier Engagement (Soft Skills)
19. Scrum Master, Vaspire Technologies, Alameda, CA
Job Summary:
- Driving self-organized teams and facilitating their own continuous improvement process
- Facilitating Scrum ceremonies
- Helping the Team in identifying and removing the impediments
- Assisting the Team in the effective planning of their future work
- Assisting the team in conflict resolution
- Helping to properly decompose the work and order product backlog items
- Helping teams to establish a transparent process, properly using the Scrum framework
- Being a servant Leader to the Team, Product Owners, and Organization
- Sharing insights throughout the company to continuously increase the Agile maturity
- Co-creating an internal Community of Practice for Scrum Masters
Skills on Resume:
- Self-organization Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Ceremony Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Impediment Removal (Soft Skills)
- Work Planning (Hard Skills)
- Conflict Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Backlog Decomposition (Hard Skills)
- Process Transparency (Hard Skills)
- Servant Leadership (Soft Skills)
20. Scrum Master, Riverstone Logistics, Charlotte, NC
Job Summary:
- Assist the CTO in coaching the team into the next stage of their agile transition
- Collect and provide the CTO with agile KPIs and metrics on an ongoing basis, and propose proactive measures for improvement
- Be responsible for multiple product Scrum teams at any given time
- Facilitate Scrum events (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Retrospective, Sprint Review, Scrum of Scrums, and other companies’ events as per best practices)
- Activate the right allure towards transparency and adaptive environments
- Communicate with all teams to ensure dependencies are aligned, blockers removed
- Assist the teams so that the backlog is groomed
- Ensure tickets are according to standards
- Understand and follow company processes about managing Scrum framework in alignment with the SDLC (development process, QA process, Release Management, Site Reliability support, and DevOps).
- Input to the continuous process improvement for Scrum processes.
- Keep abreast of industry standards and trends about best practices
- Train/Onboard new team members in Scrum and agile thinking and practices
Skills on Resume:
- Agile Coaching (Soft Skills)
- KPI Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Team Oversight (Soft Skills)
- Event Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Transparency Activation (Soft Skills)
- Dependency Alignment (Soft Skills)
- Backlog Grooming (Hard Skills)
- Process Compliance (Hard Skills)