Do you have a passion for providing your customer with world class service and value?  Are you driven and self motivated? Then Spear, winner of Best Companies in Arizona, is the place for you!

Spear is one of the world’s most respected providers of continuing education and support to dentists and their teams, helping them pursue and achieve great dentistry. Spear leads the way with an exceptional curriculum, inspired faculty and on-demand learning.

Spear is looking for a Scrum Master to be a servant leader responsible for enabling teams to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via effective agile practices. You have a strong ability to enable teams to perform at their highest level with focus on continuous improvement, facilitation of scrum ceremonies, protecting the team from both internal and external distractions, providing sprint metrics, release planning, and release health reporting.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Help establish proper working relationships with product owners for delivery of key product and internal systems
• Facilitate and coach for all scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Daily Standups
• Partner with PMO, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure cross-team dependencies are communicated effectively to result in alignment of teams on expectations, timeline and results
• Support 'Inspect and Adapt' by designing, measuring and monitoring agile metrics
• Act as an enterprise resource in Agile/Scrum for all departments by facilitating workshop sessions, providing documentation, and/or any other necessary training on an as needed basis
• Provide training to new technology team members as part of our onboarding process
• Assist scrum teams in identifying and remedying potential process and/or communication inefficiencies
• Coach delivery teams in applying agile values, principles and framework while promoting self-organization and relentless improvement
• Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Mentor Scrum Teams in developing clear and concise Product Backlog items
• Partner with product owners to forecast and execute on roadmap projects through sprint 0 activities including scoping sessions and story writing sessions, as well as creating and maintaining release dashboards

• Bachelors degree 
• First Level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)
• Second Level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II) – Preferred, not required 
• 2+ years experience in a similar position for a software development team that was diligently applying scrum principles, practices and theory
• 5-8 years of experience with agile software development processes and procedures 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and critical deadlines 
• Must be emotionally charged with ability to adapt to new changes 
• Experience with Atlassian Jira or similar toolset

What Spear Offers

• Beautiful Facility
• Company Sponsored Events (Think costume contests, holiday parties and 5k’s!)
• 24 Hour Onsite Gym
• The Most Amazing Coworkers Around
• Spear Cares
• Final 30 (A great way to wrap up a productive week!)
• Great work/life balance
• Regular Townhalls and CEO Lunches
• Career Development Pathways
• Flexible Time Off plus Spear Holidays
• And much more!

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.