Scrum Lead - Common Design System

Manulife Financial; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 75,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Toronto seeks a SCRUM Lead to lead the Global Design System initiative. The successful candidate will leverage agile methodologies to enhance collaboration and drive high performance. Exceptional facilitation, stakeholder management, and analytical skills are essential for this role.

Benefits

Customizable benefits

Generous paid time off program

Retirement savings plans

Health and wellness benefits

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a scrum master required.
• Industry-accepted agile certifications are necessary.
• Expert experience in an agile environment using scrum framework preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage backlogs, Kanban boards, and scrum-of-scrum meetings.
• Facilitate team organization and enhance collaboration.
• Coach and mentor team members to improve delivery performance.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Facilitation skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Mentorship

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Agile coaching / scrum master certification

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

The SCRUM Lead will play a key role in helping us breakdown our tasks on the Global Design System workstream, using appropriate methods to ensure we’re consistently delivering the most value we can and maintaining a good flow of completed work product. The role will have a mix of leading IT and Design deliverables and handling business partners. You will partner closely with design, engineering, and product teams across regions to define the tasks for product, designers and engineers.

The ideal successful candidate for the SCRUM Lead role on the Global Design System team is a collaborative and adaptive leader with deep expertise in Agile methodologies, exceptional facilitation and communication skills, and a proven ability to foster cross-functional alignment, remove impediments, and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced, digital-centric environment.

Position Responsibilities:

• Help the team self-organize around tools, artifacts and ceremonies that best enables collaboration and communication

• Actively manage backlogs, Kanban boards, scrum-of-scrum meetings, daily stand-ups etc.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes

• Good analytical skills, copes with situations through deliberate analysis and planning

• Real passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights stakeholders

• Excellent mentorship and leadership skills; ability to communicate technical details to wider audience in business/user terms

• A coach, facilitator and leader who can help improve the delivery performance

• Fosters team development and capability

• Reviewing, advising, and providing feedback on strategy produced within and outside the team

• Balance personal ownership and accountability of immediate responsibilities with the flexibility and drive to jump in and fill gaps across the team as they arise

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience as a scrum master

• Industry-accepted agile certifications in agile coaching / scrum master

• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert experience in an agile environment using scrum framework

• Expert knowledge of JIRA & Confluence tools

• Strong detail orientation

• Good judgment and the ability to handle high pressure situations

• Highly adaptable to a changing environment

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

• Fosters team development and capability

• Expert ability to devise, develop and apply innovative technology to solutions that would benefit our clients.

• Refined presentation and communication skills and expertise interfacing and communicating effectively with both engineers and executives.

• Desire and ability to understand diverse business domains and develop relevant approaches that meet the current and anticipated business needs across a broad set of partners.

• Understanding of field of Web Design and field of Engineering/Development

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as a primary design system advocate, navigating organizational complexity to influence decision-making at all levels.

• Partner with regional design leads to ensure the system meets regional needs while maintaining overall consistency.

• Foster collaboration between design, engineering, and product management teams, ensuring smooth integration into digital workflows.

• Build and nurture a global design system community, mentoring teams on best practices and fostering a culture of design system ownership.

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want .

• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words .

• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html .

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

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Referenced Salary Location

Toronto, Ontario

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Salary range is expected to be between

$75,880.00 CAD - $140,920.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [e-mail] for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact [e-mail] for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.