Scrum Master

**Description**

**Life At Covers**
We’re a top digital media company, with a strong sense of purpose and a belief that success comes from the strength of our team and our culture. When we offer you a place on our team, it comes with a promise (well a few promises, actually):

- **We’ll create opportunities for you to grow. **We’re a rapidly-growing company so opportunities exist here, and we hold a firm belief that when you grow, we grow.
- **Find the freedom to build something. **We’ll give you the space to imagine and create, and to build our business and your career at the same time.
- **Work alongside the best. **Work and learn with people who are the best in their field, and who bring ambition and compassion in equal measure.
- **Play hard to work hard. **We help you work on what you love and we support your style of working. We fuel creativity with fun and optimism, and always put our culture and values first.
- **We take care of each other. **We know that you bring your best when you bring your whole self to work. We’re a wholehearted, inclusive team that invests in wellbeing and belonging.

**What Matters Most To Us**:
We understand that our industry is usually associated with a non-diverse persona. We have created, a workplace and community that brings fun, experience and opportunities for all. We welcome people of any gender, race, colour, religion or belief, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other self-identifying group.

Together we are guided by our values in all that we do. If you’re going to thrive here, _fueling with fun_, _tackling it together_, _building your game_ and _delivering a great experience_ will be as meaningful to you as they are to us.

**Why You Want This Job**
The Scrum Master is part delivery specialist, and part agile expert/evangelist who works closely with Product Managers and cross-functional teams of Developers, Designers, Editors and experts across SEO, Web Optimization and Analytics.

Together as a team you’ll deliver end to end web and mobile experiences which will reach millions of users across NorthAmerica and the world. This could vary from building end to end websites from scratch, to delivering site re-brand/re-design initiatives on existing builds or delivering new features/widgets for our customers.

This role will be primarily responsible for leading, supporting, and optimizing cross-functional agile teams to efficient and predictable business value-driven delivery, while guiding teams in their evolution of agile principles and practices. In addition to working with agile teams, this role may be responsible for leading the delivery of larger cross departmental initiatives including software development work as well as work in other areas such as marketing, content, commercial, and more.
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What You'll Do*
- Provide Delivery Leadership to initiatives, projects and agile development teams.
- Work effectively with cross-functional agile development teams including a Product Manager, Developers, Designers, Editors and experts across SEO, Web Optimization and Analytics.
- Get the best from everyone, ensuring collaboration through great facilitation and running of Agile events and other meetings as needed.
- Be able to use your agile expertise to drive exceptional delivery within agile development teams and dig into your traditional project management toolbox to help drive successful delivery of more traditional projects and programs.
- Manage more than one medium to large sized project requiring complex cross-functional collaboration and management at the program level.
- Champion and pioneer ways of working, using Agile best practices to promote ownership, creativity and a customer first culture.
- Work with Product Management and other leadership to effectively plan the delivery of value, within Sprints and Seasons, against strategic roadmaps.
- Identify, resolve and mitigate delivery challenges, supporting conversations across all departments to deploy changes in the best possible way.
- Manage your teams’ delivery and proactively communicate performance through appropriate tools and metrics including sprint reports, burn down charts, cycle times etc.
- Communicate progress of delivery and manage expectations with all key stakeholders.
- Working with multiple cross functional teams to ensure they have everything they need to deliver the highest quality work.
- Manage Risks and Changes. Perform risk management, manage change, formulate action plans, mitigate risk to minimize delivery delays and costs where applicable.
- Traditional Portfolio / Project Execution. Take responsibility for projects and actively execute to plan while maintaining quality standards. Ensure that all commitments are met in accordance with project goals/objectives.
- Be a change catalyst. Work with teams, fellow Delivery Leads, leadership, and stakeholders to drive and influence change with the purpose of improving the ways of working within your team and t