Freelance Scrum Master

The location for this posting is in the United Kingdom, however, we are fully remote and would welcome applicants from EMEA, South America, North America, and within 4h of UTC+1. We work in English, so excellent written and spoken English is essential.

Freelancing at Human Made

Join Human Made as a freelancer and you’ll feel like part of the team. You’ll be working on interesting and complex projects, alongside some of the industry's top talent. We’re fully remote, and have been for over 10 years, so you can expect well established ways of working, and a vibrant online culture.

Once you are qualified, you'll be added to our freelance talent pool and be invited to projects that suit your availability and expertise as soon as they become available, which might not be immediately. Once you are booked on a project, you will integrate as part of the team, so you are expected to join team meetings and activities (although we have a strong emphasis on asynchronous communication).

The Scrum Master Role at Human Made

As a Scrum Master you will create self-organising teams that are flexible and fully productive during sprints, with the goal of creating high performing teams. To do this you should be able to plan deliverables and help teams monitor their performance. You should have a thorough understanding of scrum/agile concepts, and can apply them through coaching and mentoring. You understand value, as it applies to the companies we work with and its alignment with our own priorities, and you are consistent in pursuing it.

Responsibilities:

These are the main areas of focus for a Scrum Master:

Applying Scrum To Produce High Quality Work

Manage each projects scope and timeline

Create and maintain a team culture that facilitates a shared responsibility for successful delivery

Guide team on principles and practice of the agile framework being used in the project

Work with team to help define and refine project scope, estimates, and resource requirements for projects

Prepare and facilitate workshops (either virtual or in-person) to establish project needs and relationships

Facilitate meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing

Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments

Assess the time and financial impact of scope change and communicate to stakeholders as appropriate

Identifies when to use experiments for learning and solutioning

Accountability To The Business

Be commercially aware: Understand the status of the budget of your projects and be able to report on them back to the company

Allocation management of project needs in conjunction with your squad composition

Building And Safeguarding Relationships

Facilitate wider engagement with internal and external stakeholders, and partners engaged in delivery

Build a partnership relationship with clients, understanding their business imperatives as context for helping align the team on those goals