About Planet
Planet is a global provider of integrated technology and payments solutions for retail and hospitality customers.
We create great experiences for the millions of people who use our payments, software, and tax-free solutions every minute of every day.
Planet empowers its customers to deliver great customer experiences by combining payments and software in ways that drive greater loyalty, increase revenue, and save time.
Founded over 35 years ago and with our headquarters in London, today we have more than 2,500 employees located across six continents, serving our customers in more than 120 markets.
Role overview:
As a Scrum Master (SM) you will operate in a Servant Leader role to your teams and be a leader, coach, and facilitator to these teams.
You will educate and mentor teams in agile methods and tools, ensuring the agreed process is being followed.
As an SM, you will assist in removing impediments, raising team dependencies, provide insight to team progress outside of the team and help drive the delivery of value for Planet within your domain, helping to foster an environment of high-performing teams with continuous flow and relentless improvement.
What you will do
Lead the Scrum team in agile methods and practices.
Support the product owner and development team to deliver their committed value with quality in small increments, ensuring that a team’s sprint commit meets the definition of ready for a sprint and meets the definition of done on completion.
Lead the Scrum team in self-organization.
Resolve conflicts and issues that occur within the team and across teams with your scrum master peers.
Help remove impediments – the SM should be actively addressing impediments so that the team can remain focused on achieving their sprint commit.
Identify and raise dependencies and help manage cross-team coordination at our Scrum of scrums.
Build a high-performing team – focusing on ever-improving team dynamics and performance, by managing conflicts, challenges and recognising opportunities for growth.
Mentor and Coach the teams.
Protect and communicate – Work with the scrum team and external stakeholders to influence and drive decision-making while reducing disruptions to a team’s sprint commit.
Track and Report on sprint performance as per the delivery team standards.
Participates in our planning cycles, preparing capacity planners, demos, statistics and assisting with the planning sessions.
Facilitates all Agile ceremonies.
Participate in the Scrum master community of practice to advance our agile practices as an organisation.
Who you are
Experience as a scrum master with the knowledge of how to facilitate and coach teams to high-performing teams.
An updated Certified Scrum Master certificate is a nice-to-have.
You have a growth mind-set while exemplifying and promoting agile values and principles.
Ability to think, analyse and think quick.
Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills.
You have experience in delivering software development through an agile delivery model, preferably SAFe and Scrum.
You should be able to prioritize tasks while working on multiple initiatives and assignments at the same time.
Passion for detail: Must have proven ability to architect and drive through change in a fast-growing company.
Solid team Player: To be able to work with diverse teams in many locations.
Outstanding communication & presentation skills; Must be able to communicate with non-IT specialists.
Time Management: Must have proven time management skills and the ability to deliver to tight deadlines.
Decision maker: Willing to take responsibility and able to make sound decisions in a fast-growing global company.
Why Planet:
Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce.
We would love to hear from you – Apply now.
At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office.
Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.