Scrum Master

Job Description

Our mission is to make meaningful learning a part of your everyday 🧠. The shelf life of our skills is now less than 5 years. So, if you stopped learning today, your skills would soon be irrelevant. Think that’s a big problem? You’d be right.

Enter HowNow. Founded in 2019, our Learning and Skills Platform is disrupting the way people learn and upskill through technology. Whether it's finding a quick answer, learning skills or tapping into shared knowledge, we make it easy for people to learn what they need, when they need it.

Already used by fast-growing scale-ups and global enterprises, such as the UK Government, Investec, and Trainline we’re pushing the boundaries of how people learn.

Hi I'm Anil the Senior Project Manager at HowNow 👋🏾 I’m looking for a Scrum Master to join us.

You’ll guide us in adopting Agile principles in all areas of our development life cycle and remove obstacles to ensure the delivery of high-quality products. If you're someone who loves building processes from scratch, tweaking how we're already working, and generally making things way more efficient, you'll really enjoy it here.

At times, it can be really fast paced which can come with high-demands (we’re growing a market leading learning company, which doesn’t come easy), so you’ll need to be used to working under pressure.

Longer term, as someone that coordinates the Engineering teams, you’ll also have the opportunity to influence the design of awesome product features, giving your feedback and opinions during the design phase.

Alongside the opportunities to develop and grow your career, we're a fun and friendly bunch. Have a watch of the video below to get an understanding of what it's like to work here.

Day-to-day tasks will include 📩

• You’ll facilitate daily Scrum meetings (stand-ups), sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• You’ll collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure that the product backlog is well-defined, prioritised, and up to date.
• You’ll remove impediments or guide the team to removing impediments by finding the right team members.
• You’ll shield the development team from outside distractions and interferences.
• You’ll foster a collaborative and high-performing team culture by coaching team members on Agile principles and Scrum practices.
• You’ll track and manage key performance metrics such as velocity, burn-down charts, and team progress to ensure sprint goals are met.
• You’ll support continuous improvement by facilitating retrospectives and encouraging experimentation and learning.
• You’ll help the team adhere to Scrum principles while identifying areas for improvement in their processes.
• You’ll liaise with stakeholders and ensure clear communication and alignment on sprint goals and progress.
• You’ll encourage team accountability and self-organisation while maintaining a healthy balance of team dynamics.
• You’ll ensure adherence to the Agile process and foster a culture of continuous delivery and feedback.

The key things that we will be looking for in applicants 🔑

• You have 4+ years of experience in a Scrum Master role within a tech company, preferably B2B SaaS.
• You have experience working with Agile software development methodologies, particularly Scrum or Kanban.
• You have a Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM).
• You possess strong communication, organisational, and leadership skills.
• You are able to coach teams to reach their highest potential and deliver exceptional results.
• You have experience using Agile project management tools such as Jira.
• You have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively under pressure.
• You have a strong understanding of software development practices and technologies, including coding concepts.

What you’ll get:

💰 Our salaries are calculated using a SaaS benchmarking tool called (Figures). Happy to disclose upon application. You’ll also receive a performance based bonus on top.

🏡 Hybrid working (in our offices 3x a week Mon-Wed)

💆 Wind-down Fridays. No meetings from 3pm onwards on Fridays, for you to wind down for the weekend. Our HowNow’ers use this time to exercise, study, or spend some time with their family and friends, which you can read about here

👼🏼 Enhanced maternity and paternity policies which you can read about here

🌴 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and your birthday day off

📚 An annual £200 learning and development budget

🐶 Dog friendly offices - we love our pets! 🐾

🤩 Monthly socials and team dinners which have included Bounce, Mystery Rooms, ITC Maratha, JW Marriot and many more

💡 Access to the very best learning platform out there (HowNow+) to keep you at the top of your game

What's next? 🤔

Once you've applied, we'll get back in touch with you. This is usually within the next 5 working days. Sometimes it can take slightly longer, but we will get back to you irregardless of what the outcome of your application is.

1. You'll be invited to a 30-minute video call with Naaz, our People Operations Coordinator to discuss your experiences and the role.
2. You'll be invited to a 60-minute video call with Anil, our Senior Project Manager so you can understand the role in more depth, and get to know each other better.
3. You'll be invited to a 60-minute video call involving a task with Anil, our Senior Project Manager, Saurabh, our Senior Product Manager, and Ashish, our CTO.