Scrum Master - Digital VoD Delivery & Growth

UKTV; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

UKTV is seeking a Scrum Master on a fixed-term contract to lead three squads (Roku, iOS and Android) for the U VoD app. You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, and coach teams toward high performance.

Reporting into the Delivery Lead, you will partner with Product Owners, manage the backlog, and communicate risks and dependencies to stakeholders. A strong focus on velocity, cycle time, and continuous improvement is required.

Qualifications

• Demonstratable experience as a scrum master in digital, working on a direct-to-consumer product.
• Deep understanding of Scrum and Agile principles.
• Proven experience working across a mobile product (iOS/tvOS/Android) and / or Roku and an understanding of the end-to-end delivery.
• Experience working with contract developers who work remotely on varying days.
• Experience promoting a culture of accountability whilst fostering a safe environment for experimentation and learning.
• Ability to promote a culture of transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management experience.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and conflict-resolution experience.
• Challenging thoughts and ideas in a diplomatic manner to get to the right solution.
• Experience using data to drive decision making, specifically using velocity and burndown charts to provide the squad with the right data to improve effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Deliver major changes and key updates to the U product on mobile to align to our user needs and company strategy, meeting goals within agreed sprints.
• Work closely with several Product Owners in each squad to maintain and prioritise the product backlog, with alignment to the project goals.
• Act as a link between the development team and external stakeholders, communicating project status, risks and dependencies, as appropriate.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Act as a gatekeeper for the development team, shielding them from external disruptions.
• Facilitate a self-organising team, empowering ownerships of squad deliverables.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and co-ordinate as appropriate when working on larger, cross department projects.
• Remove impediments and blockers to ensure smooth delivery of sprint goals.
• Enhance team effectiveness through improved collaboration, transparency, increased adoption of Agile processes.
• Promote and coach the squad on Agile values, principles, and practices, to maximise productivity and champion these learnings across the wider business.
• Track and report on sprint progress, using metrics to include velocity, burndown charts and cycle time to surface trends.
• Encourage a test and learn mentality.
• Promote a culture of learning, utilising internal resources and facilitate workshops.
• Build an environment of trust and transparent communication.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile principles

Mobile product

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Data-driven

Jira

Miro

Planning poker

Retro boards

Tools

Jira

Miro

Planning poker

Retro boards

Job description

UKTV is seeking a Scrum Master on a fixed-term contract to lead three squads (Roku, iOS and Android) for the U VoD app. You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, and coach teams toward high performance.

Reporting into the Delivery Lead, you will partner with Product Owners, manage the backlog, and communicate risks and dependencies to stakeholders. A strong focus on velocity, cycle time, and continuous improvement is required.