Senior Scrum Master

343 Industries is the developer of the blockbuster Halo series of video games. We are looking to hire a Senior Scrum Master to join our team. As part of Xbox Game Studios, the Halo franchise encompasses games, television series, novels, comics, licensed collectibles, apparel and more. We are looking for new teammates to join our team to build the next generation of games and experiences in our award-winning, sci-fi universe. Do you understand modern console/PC games and have experience with live service games? Do you closely collaborate with teams to drive inspiring, cohesive gameplay experiences? Are you interested in Halo and want to preserve what makes it unique—while brimming with ideas to evolve an experience that millions of players love? If so, the Halo team would love to speak with you about becoming our next Senior Scrum Master. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

Responsibilities

• Be an ambassador for Scrum values of commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect. 

• Facilitate collaboration and communication across teams leading to improved efficiency, effective goal setting, and healthy work/life balance. 

• Identify and remove roadblocks that prevent production teams from performing to their highest potential. 

• Partner with all disciplines to identify and drive resolution to any gaps in our process framework. 

• Provide mentorship to a team of Scrum Masters to schedule, participate, and lead scrum events for Sprint planning, stand-up, review, retrospectives, and backlog refinement. 

• Imbed with development teams to surface team-specific challenges with our development process, create a mapping of up and downstream customers, and document assumptions we need to harden. 

• Schedule and drive retrospective meetings across with varying audiences to surface potential future targets for process improvement, the state of current process change rollout, and the impact of recent changes to team health. 

• Be a steward of our product backlog standards and practices to ensure confidence in our burndowns and analytics. 

As a Senior Scrum Master at 343 Industries, you will work directly with Producers, Engineers, Designers, Artists, and other disciplines to drive strategic change to our process framework. As a leader, you will listen to the team(s) and improve how we ship efficient, fast, empowering game development processes across the organization. 

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in production roles in shipping AAA current generation games as a Producer, Scrum Master, or Program Manager
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in development and shipping of at least one product release.
• Scrum Master certification. 
• Knowledge and experience with Agile software development methods such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or Lean. 

Other Requirements: 

• Ability to m