Scrum Master Delivery Lead

Dow Jones; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Time off

Financial wellbeing

Perks & discounts

Job summary

News Corp Australia seeks an experienced Scrum Master to drive delivery across multiple streams in a high‑velocity environment. You will facilitate ceremonies, align squads, manage roadmaps, and surface risks to keep the program on track.

You’ll partner with technical teams, product owners and business stakeholders, ensuring milestones are met while balancing scope, budget and quality in a hybrid Sydney setting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master or delivery lead in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge of agile methodologies and ability to manage roadmaps and dependencies across teams.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as the dedicated Scrum Master for your streams, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coordinate day-to-day delivery across multiple internal squads to keep them aligned, focused, and unblocked.
• Maintain stream roadmaps, plans, estimates, schedules, risks, and issues, updating them as priorities shift.
• Set up and manage Jira tickets and boards, while maintaining Confluence pages and project documentation.
• Ensure key delivery commitments are met by aligning squad outputs and communicating progress to stakeholders.

Skills

Scrum Master

Delivery management

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

What's the role?

Step into an exciting, high-impact 12 month contract role delivering a high-profile digital transformation program for editorial content planning and creation. Working alongside the Senior Project Manager, you will support day-to-day delivery across key streams like newsroom planning and content authoring. This is a varied, fast-moving role suited for someone with strong delivery experience ready for more responsibility. You will juggle multiple priorities, collaborate closely with technical teams, product owners, and business stakeholders, connect internal scrum squads with adjacent streams, keep work moving, surface and clear roadblocks, and ensure delivery stays on plan.

Responsibilities

Act as the dedicated scrum master for your streams, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives. Coordinate day-to-day delivery across multiple internal squads to keep them aligned, focused, and unblocked. Maintain stream roadmaps, plans, estimates, schedules, risks, and issues, dynamically updating them as priorities shift and proactively resolving or escalating risks before they impact delivery. Track deliverable status, hold teams accountable to agreed scope, timeframes, and commitments, and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders while supporting the Senior Project Manager in meeting scope, budget, and contractual requirements. Set up and manage Jira tickets and boards, while maintaining accurate, useful Confluence pages and project documentation. Ensure key delivery commitments are met by aligning squad outputs, managing risks and issues, and driving visibility across technical and project teams.

Who are you?

You have strong experience as a scrum master or delivery lead in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of planning and delivering to milestones. You understand agile methodologies and apply them pragmatically, with experience managing roadmaps and dependencies across multiple teams. You are positive, confident, energetic, and excel at building strong working relationships. You learn fast, take initiative, and focus on getting the job done. You communicate well, both verbally and in writing, with technical and non-technical audiences. You are organised and manage your time well when handling multiple deadlines.

Why News Corp Australia

Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You’ll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia’s most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.

News Extras Benefits

• Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
• Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits
• Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
• Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
• Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money

Initiatives and Programs

• Helping you grow - Access tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs, to cultivate your skills and support your career
• Giving back - Make a difference to our communities through volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives
• Workplace Inclusion and facilities - Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms

Who are we?

News Corp Australia is the nation’s most influential media organisation, operating more than 150 household-name brands across print, digital and multimedia. We lead the way in travel, fashion, food, health, homes and lifestyle, and we are the largest publisher across print and digital, reaching more than 16 million Australians each month.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity strengthens our national teams and newsroom as we seek to tell stories that represent the communities of Australia. Our people make us unique, and so we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or gender identity. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply! We are committed to ensuring an accessible and supportive recruitment process.

If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage, please do not hesitate to let us know here.

For more information regarding Diversity at NewsCorp Australia please visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the Diversity@News section.

Category: Technology, Digital and Data

We are proud to be Australia’s most impactful media group, we’re even prouder of what we stand for: Together, we inform, advocate and inspire all Australians, for a better Australia. With over 150 brands across news, sport and lifestyle, backed by a team of more than 5,000 dedicated people across the country, News Corp Australia is trusted by over 17 million Australians a month to provide the information and inspiration they seek across multiple digital, video, audio and print platforms. Renowned for world-class journalism and marketing services nationally and internationally, we are passionate, creative and dynamic. We offer a fast-paced environment that encourages individuals to take control of their future and challenge themselves in ever-changing fields.