Title: Project Manager - Scrum Master II
Location: San Francisco, CA / Indianapolis, In / Seattle, WA (Hybrid, 4 days per week)
Duration: 8 + Months
 
Looking for a talented and dynamic contractor to join the Global Incentive Compensation - Systems team to support our team’s strategy, growth, and innovation. This position is a part of one of our most innovative teams within the GIC team. You will be responsible for supporting the organization as a whole and being hands on in the development process. You will partner with other development teams in the GIC organization and manage the delivery of changes/updates to the systems and tools used to pay the sales teams.
 
Essential Functions:
In this role, you will focus primarily on helping the scrum team deliver on work objects assigned to them.
 
Business Functional Knowledge:

• Collaborate with business users to define processes that meet business needs.
• Ensure processes are scalable and flexible to meet future business needs.
• Design processes that can be implemented with minimal disruption to supporting systems and are cost effective.

 Business Requirements:

• Create business process documents (process guides, templates)
• Coordinate with counterparts in San Francisco, Indianapolis, Toronto, India to manage the development process and resolve issues and ensure timely delivery of products to business stakeholders

 
Sustaining Operations:

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and provide relevant and timely updates to counterparts in San Francisco/Indianapolis/Toronto/India.
• Serve as a resource to Product Owners to manage product backlog: liaise with counterparts to ensure that there is a healthy backlog that the development team(s) can work on.
• Monitor implemented systems and processes to ensure high performance.
• Review processes, identify areas for improvement, and implement changes as a result of reviewing and gathering metrics, and conducting Agile ceremonies.
• Share and learn best practices with peers to increase the effectiveness of the application of agile practices in the organization.

 Job Requirements:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills and process documentation.
• Experience working with IT development staff on software development projects and Agile/Scrum, in particular, facilitating stand ups and retrospectives
• Strong analysis, project management, and reporting capabilities.
• Experience with Xactly or other compensation systems is preferred, but not required.

 Must have Skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills and process documentation.
• Experience working with IT development staff on software development projects and Agile/Scrum, in particular, facilitating stand ups and retrospectives. Strong analysis, project management, and reporting capabilities.
• Salesforce knowledge.

Teachable skills: Understanding our ICM tool.
 
Optional Skills: Experience with an ICM or other compensation systems
 
Education & Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years of experience is required. 3 to 5 years of experience on an Agile team is preferred.
• A Bachelor of Arts or Science Degree required; Finance or Information Technology is preferred.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.