Staff Technical Project Manager and Scrum Master
Find out exactly what skills, experience, and qualifications you will need to succeed in this role before applying below.
At Twist Bioscience, we help our customers improve the world. Our DNA-based tools enable researchers across a variety of scientific disciplines to make groundbreaking discoveries.
We continue to drive biological innovations to make the world safer, healthier, and more sustainable.
We seek an experienced Staff Project Manager and Scrum Master to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing a range of complex, high-impact projects with strong organizational leadership and influencing skills.
As a Staff Technical Project Manager and Scrum Master, you will work closely with stakeholders, both business and software engineering, and play a crucial role in coaching and guiding the Scrum team(s) to enable meeting the organization's goals.
What you will be doing :
- Lead the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices
- Organize sprints, daily stand-ups, and retrospective meetings with the Salesforce & SAP development teams.
- Assist with coordinating user story grooming, sprint planning and review, and software demos
- Help remove impediments
- Measure project performance and assist with project risk management
- Report project status, risks, and escalations
- Work with product owners to help manage backlogs and new project requests
- Guide and mentor the scrum team to achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
- Provide strategic guidance to cross-functional teams and manage program risks and dependencies
What You Will Bring :
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Flexible & adaptability to changing business needs.
- 8+ years of combined Scrum Master and People Leadership experience
- Solid technical background with familiarity or experience in software development, cloud, and web technologies
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile development environment
- Strong organizational and multitasking abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with geographically dispersed software development teams
- Familiarity with Business Applications such as Salesforce.com and SAP
- Scrum Master certification is a plus
- PMP certification is a plus
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