Scrum Master

Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, Pitcher is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company offering a suite of products to support corporate sales representatives in their daily activities across a number of industries. Today this market is known as Sales Enablement and has grown rapidly since 2010 with further growth expected in the coming years. Pitcher has customers in over 136 countries with offices in Zurich (HQ), Barcelona, Istanbul, Ankara, New York, Mexico City, Vienna, Boston and Tokyo. The Pitcher solution is used by over 100,000 sales professionals every day.

This is a unique opportunity to become part of an exciting journey with the possibility to impact the growth and development of a globally growing innovation company.

We are currently looking for a Scrum Master who will be responsible for planning, directing and coordinating activities related to software development and testing to ensure that resource, timeline and quality goals are accomplished.

What would be your job

• Applying agile and Scrum processes, principles, and merits
• Support building self-organized and cross-functional teams
• Coach and mentor assigned teams
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame with an emphasis of problem solving
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Facilitating Scrum events and providing coaching to further improve Agile maturity of teams
• Ensuring team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery of business value
• Helping team proactively identify impediments and recommending solutions to remove impediments

Specifically within given team

• Communicating effectively with cross-functional agile teams and Product Owner, regarding project status, issues, and priorities
• Being a servant leader to the team
• Maintaining a strong cross-functional team to establish and manage the team’s strategy and delivery against roadmap
• Managing continuous improvement across the roadmap delivery and practice, driving towards Rapid, Reliable and Repeatable
• Maintaining transparency through relevant JIRA dashboards and metrics for continuous improvement to communicate project/team health and status
• Creating and facilitating a collaborative, empowered team’s progress toward ownership of customer and team satisfaction, fostering creativity and innovation
• Ensuring compliance with software quality engineering policies and standards

• Professional Scrum Master PSM - Scrum.Org
• Certified Scrum Master CSM – Agile Alliance and other certifications are desired

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience in a SCRUM environment
• Advanced knowledge of English, spoken fluently
• Coaching /mentoring skills - Active listener
• Familiar with Atlassian Jira and Confluence
• Willingness to learn
• Experienced with introducing Scrum to SW development teams
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with the Scrum team and stakeholders
• Comfortable working with multiple teams, both in-house and remote
• Excellent communication skills

We Offer

• Opportunity to impact a successful, growing scale-up and its software used by people worldwide
• Work in highly-motivated, international and cross-functional teams that push boundaries
• Competitive salary
• Flat hierarchy
• Unlimited access to Linkedin Learnings
• Enjoy yearly company events abroad
• Pitcherasmus - Possibility to work from any of our offices worldwide, once a year
• We are a company that value our co-workers and create an atmosphere of well-being 

Are you ready for a new challenge?

Apply now!