Scrum Master

Our client is hiring a Scrum Master to drive disciplined, predictable, and high-velocity delivery across 2–3 engineering teams operating within our portfolio companies. 

This role combines rigorous sprint execution, project planning, release management, delivery tooling ownership, and hands-on quality assurance. You will own the delivery operating rhythm end-to-end: from project plan creation and Gantt chart tracking through sprint ceremonies, release coordination in Redmine, and exploratory testing that ensures we ship quality software. 

You are not running ceremonies in isolation. You are the single point of accountability for delivery health, project timelines, release readiness, and product quality across your assigned teams. 

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and maintain project plans with clear milestones, delivery deadlines, task dependencies, and resource assignments for each active engineering workstream 
• Create and manage Gantt charts to visualize project timelines, critical path, and milestone progress across teams 
• Track delivery against committed deadlines, flag slippage early, and drive corrective action with engineering leads before deadlines are missed 
• Own and facilitate core agile ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives across 2–3 teams 
• Create and manage releases in Redmine, ensuring every release has a clear scope, version tag, target date, and linked tickets
• Track ticket progress against releases: monitor open vs. closed vs. in-progress issues, flag scope creep, and ensure release readiness before deployment 
• Configure and maintain Redmine projects, trackers, custom fields, workflows, and permissions to support clean delivery operations 
• Maintain Redmine dashboards and saved queries that give instant visibility into release health, aging tickets, blockers, and team workload
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, QA, and Customer Success to ensure backlog items are well-defined, prioritized, and delivery-ready 
• Develop deep product knowledge across assigned teams to serve as an effective QA checkpoint, not just a process coordinator 

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Delivery Lead, with demonstrated experience managing 2+ engineering teams simultaneously 
• Strong hands-on experience with Redmine (or Jira): project configuration, release creation, custom workflows, Gantt charts, dashboards, and sprint reporting 
• Proven ability to create and manage project plans, delivery timelines, Gantt charts, and milestone tracking across multiple concurrent workstreams 
• Hands-on QA capability: ability to learn products deeply, conduct exploratory testing, find edge cases, and validate delivered features against acceptance criteria 
• Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban, backlog management, sprint planning, estimation techniques, and release coordination 
• Experience creating delivery playbooks, process documentation, and standardized operating procedures for engineering teams 
• Availability to work until 2 pm - 3pm US EST

Nice to Have 

• Experience in SaaS, enterprise software, or platform engineering environments 
• Experience in post-acquisition or turnaround environments where processes needed to be built from scratch 
• Familiarity with engineering metrics: cycle time, lead time, defect leakage, sprint predictability, deployment frequency, and MTTR 
• Exposure to AI-assisted software delivery, engineering automation, or modern SDLC tooling 
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, or equivalent) 

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS 

• You are not just running ceremonies. You are the delivery backbone for 2–3 engineering teams the person who ensures project plans are realistic, sprints are productive, releases ship on time, and the product actually works. 
• This is a high-impact role for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, build repeatable delivery systems, personally validate product quality, and help portfolio companies scale engineering delivery with speed, discipline, and accountability. 
• Your playbooks, dashboards, Redmine configurations, and testing rigor become the operating infrastructure that makes predictable delivery possible across the portfolio.