Agile Maestro: Scrum Master for Cross-Team Delivery

Stand Together; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match with vesting

Health plan

Wellness benefits

Flexible time off

Job summary

Stand Together is building an internal Agile practice and seeks a Scrum Master to support multiple teams across varying Agile maturities. You will run ceremonies, maintain a healthy backlog, and foster trust and psychological safety to enable honest retrospectives and meaningful improvements.

You will partner with Product and Engineering Leads, report to the Agile Practice Lead, and contribute to standardized processes, templates, and playbooks that elevate delivery across teams.

Qualifications

• Prior experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead supporting cross-functional product or technology teams.
• The interpersonal skills to build trust quickly on teams that may be skeptical, fatigued, or in conflict.
• Strong Jira skills: backlog management, workflow configuration, automation, dashboard and reporting development.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies: standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and reviews with preparation, time-boxing, and outcomes focus.
• Build trust and psychological safety for honest retrospectives and credible improvement actions.
• Shift sprint planning to align in-meeting by doing admin and readiness work, including ticket review and Jira cleanup.
• Maintain backlog health: ensure work is categorized, sized, structured, and ready for commitment.
• Apply and reinforce standardized ticket structures: issue types, field usage, user story and acceptance criteria formats, spike success criteria, bug reproduction steps.
• Track, analyze, and communicate sprint metrics including velocity, rollover trends, and estimated vs actual effort; surface patterns for planning accuracy.
• Facilitate root-cause analysis of blockers and rollover; drive corrective actions.
• Identify and pursue impediments crossing team boundaries; escalate when broader action is needed.
• Contribute to overall delivery standards by sharing what works and building playbooks and templates.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile delivery

Jira

Facilitation

Cross-functional teams

Tools

Jira

Job description

Stand Together is building an internal Agile practice and seeks a Scrum Master to support multiple teams across varying Agile maturities. You will run ceremonies, maintain a healthy backlog, and foster trust and psychological safety to enable honest retrospectives and meaningful improvements.

You will partner with Product and Engineering Leads, report to the Agile Practice Lead, and contribute to standardized processes, templates, and playbooks that elevate delivery across teams.