Scrum Master

Cvent; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Cvent, a global events technology leader based in India, seeks a Scrum Master to guide 2-3 sprint teams. You will remove impediments, improve velocity, and promote agile practices while leveraging AI tools to optimize workflows.

Ideal candidates have 4-7 years of experience, strong leadership, excellent communication, and the ability to coach teams toward higher performance in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of technical experience with 2-5 years as Scrum Master or Agile Coach
• Experience with backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and agile terminology
• Experience in large/enterprise app development with Agile methods preferred
• Strong leadership, time management, and analytical skills
• Able to act as servant leader at team or project level
• Familiarity with AI-powered productivity and collaboration tools is a must
• Ability to learn quickly and work with minimal supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Atlassian tools is preferred

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with product owners to keep backlog groomed.
• Facilitate sprint planning, review, daily scrum, and retrospective events.
• Identify and escalate impediments.
• Manage risks and issues; support mitigation strategies.
• Maintain metrics to monitor team performance.
• Coordinate sprint plan across technology staff.
• Manage dependencies within and across teams.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums and promote collaboration.
• Encourage AI tool adoption to improve workflows.
• Document and report through sprint plans, burndown charts, risk registers.
• Communicate status to stakeholders at fixed cadences.
• Guide team in applying AI insights to optimize flows.
• Ensure delivery meets quality standards and SLA
• Foster continuous improvement at team level.

Skills

Leadership

Time management

Conflict resolution

Analytical skills

Servant leadership

Situational awareness

Continuous improvement

Fast learner

AI tools familiarity

Effective communication

Independence

Attention to detail

Project management

Jira

Confluence

PI planning

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,500+ employees and 30,000+ customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection. Cvent's strength lies in its people, fostering a culture where everyone is encouraged to think like entrepreneurs, taking risks and making decisions confidently. We value diverse perspectives and celebrate differences, working together with colleagues and clients to build strong connections.

AI at Cvent: Leading the Future

Are you ready to shape the future of work at the intersection of human expertise and AI innovation? At Cvent, we’re committed to continuous learning and adaptation—AI isn’t just a tool for us, it’s part of our DNA. We’re looking for candidates who are eager to evolve alongside technology. If you love to experiment boldly, share your discoveries, and help define best practices for AI-augmented work, you’ll thrive here. Our team values professionals who thoughtfully integrate AI into their daily work, delivering exceptional results while relying on the human judgment and creativity that drive real innovation.

Throughout our interview process, you’ll have the chance to demonstrate how you use AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact. If you’re excited to be part of a team that’s leading the way in AI-powered collaboration, we’d love to meet you.

The Scrum Master at Cvent (SM) facilitates processes, escalates impediments, manages risk, and helps to drive continuous improvement at the team level. The scrum master acts as a servant leader to the team and promotes scrum best practices and coaches the team to track and constantly improves its velocity. The Scrum Master is expected to handle 2-3 Sprint teams as a Scrum Master.

Position Duties

• Coordinates with product owners to keep the sprint team’s backlog ready and groomed.
• Facilitates sprint planning, review, daily scrum, refinement meetings, and retrospective events at the team level.
• Identifies and escalates impediments.
• Manage team or project level risks and issues and take corrective actions to mitigate them, develop mitigation strategies and support the teams in addressing challenges.
• Maintains relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance.
• Coordinates elements of the sprint plan with other technology staff outside of the project.
• Take responsibility for managing dependencies within the sprint team as well as those dependencies from other development or operations teams.
• Participates as well as facilitate Scrum of Scrums.
• Encourages Architect, UX, QT and Sprint team collaboration.
• Coordinates timely response and support to production line customer issues and helps to ensure that team maintains adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Identify and promote opportunities for integrating AI tools and automation into team processes for improved efficiency (e.g., backlog refinement, reporting, estimation, or retrospective analysis).
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain project documentation such as sprint plans, burndown charts, and crucial project documents like the Risk Register and Project Charter. Provide regular updates on project progress to stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Communication: Serve as a key point of contact for stakeholders regarding project progress and deliverables, ensuring they are informed and engaged throughout the project lifecycle.
• Actively encourage and guide the team in applying AI-driven insights to optimize workflows, improve sprint predictability, and address bottlenecks.
• Communicates sprint/team or project status to stakeholders at a fixed cadence.
• Coordinate work teams consisting of R&D / SRE / Cloud Operations / blended teams using agile methodologies.
• Promotes adherence to Agile software development best practices.
• Ensure team members have the necessary resources to complete their tasks.
• Ensure that sprint team deliverables meet the required quality standards.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives at the team level.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to identify and resolve issues.
• Acts as an Agile coach to the development team.

What we are looking for:

• 4-7 years of technical experience including 2-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
• Understanding backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, task definition, and other Agile terminology.
• Large/enterprise application development experience using Agile methodologies preferred but not required.
• Strong leadership, time management, conflict resolution, and analytical skills.
• Able to act as servant leader at the team level or project level.
• Situational Awareness - Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise, make all necessary attempts to solve them before elevating them to management.
• Drive for continuous improvement.
• Quick learner - Must be able to quickly gain high level understanding of the technical and business domains of the development team.
• Familiarity with modern AI-powered productivity and collaboration tools (e.g., AI meeting assistants, reporting bots, AI Agents, Glean, backlog analyzers etc.) is a must have.
• Demonstrated curiosity and willingness to experiment with AI-driven solutions for workflow improvement.
• Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are a must.
• Outstanding written and oral communication.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, tools, and techniques will be an added advantage.
• Experience with Atlassian Tools such as Jira and Confluence preferred but not required.
• Experience and knowledge of PI planning will be an added advantage.
• Experience in project management will be an added advantage.