Scrum Master Expert

AfterQuery; Ireland; Remote; EUR 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

Weekly Stripe payments

Flexible hours

Ongoing project work

Job summary

AfterQuery is hiring scrum masters as contractors to author and grade agile delivery scenarios used by frontier AI labs to measure model judgment and improve performance.

We offer fully remote, asynchronous work, with payments weekly via Stripe. Rates range from $70 to $110 per hour, with a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week and no fixed hours. This is ongoing project work with flexible scheduling.

Qualifications

• 2+ years as a scrum master or agile delivery lead for software teams.
• Experience facilitating the full ceremony cycle from planning through retrospectives.
• Depth in backlog management, impediment removal, and team coaching.
• Clear written English for documenting facilitation and coaching reasoning.
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Author realistic agile delivery scenarios from sprint planning through retrospectives
• Write reference answers with the facilitation reasoning behind each intervention
• Grade model output for agile soundness and team dynamics awareness
• Flag advice that reads textbook correct but would harm a real team

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile delivery

Facilitation

Backlog management

Coaching

Written English

Tools

Stripe

Job description

Scrum masters to build the agile delivery scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment. $70 to $110/hr, remote, async, paid weekly. AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring scrum masters as contractors to author and grade the agile delivery scenarios those evaluations run on. What you'll actually do Author realistic agile delivery scenarios, from sprint planning through retrospectivesWrite reference answers with the facilitation reasoning behind each interventionGrade model output for agile soundness and team dynamics awarenessFlag advice that reads textbook correct but would harm a real team Who this is for Scrum masters with at least 2 years leading agile delivery for software teamsFacilitators who have run the full ceremony cycle from planning through retrospectivesPractitioners with depth in backlog management, impediment removal, and team coachingClear writers who can document the reasoning behind a facilitation decision Contract and pay $70 to $110/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches. AfterQuery AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and can't do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.

Responsibilities

• Author realistic agile delivery scenarios from sprint planning through retrospectives
• Write reference answers with the facilitation reasoning behind each intervention
• Grade model output for agile soundness and team dynamics awareness
• Flag advice that reads textbook correct but would harm a real team

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years as a scrum master or agile delivery lead for software teams
• Experience facilitating the full ceremony cycle from planning through retrospectives
• Depth in backlog management, impediment removal, and team coaching
• Clear written English for documenting facilitation and coaching reasoning
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred Qualifications

• CSM, PSM, or SAFe certification
• Experience coaching multiple teams or scaling agile practices
• Background as a developer, tester, or product owner

Why apply

• $70 to $110/hr, paid weekly via Stripe
• 100% remote and fully async
• Shape how frontier models reason about agile delivery
• Ongoing project work with hours you set each week