Scrum Master – Digital Experience Engineering

Job title: Scrum Master – Digital Experience Engineering

Job description: Description & Requirements

Who we are

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we’re in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.

About this team

The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring the product team delivers its commitments in support of driving digital experiences forward for our guests. This role works lock step with our Product Management and Engineering Teams by diligently following the scrum framework to guide the Product Manager and Business Analyst to ensure prepared backlogs that are prioritized and groomed, the team has estimated the sprint ahead, the active sprint has strong support on any impediments, and the team is able to rely on the scrum framework to guide the cadence of the product model. The Scrum Master is constantly seeking for ways to improve the team to get faster, tighter, stronger and better. A continuous improvement culture will be facilitated by this role.

The Scrum Master understands the value of the development team’s time and protects them from unplanned work and distraction. The Scrum Master works with the Product Management Team, primarily focusing on areas such as content and education, search and browse, checkout and accounts and our post purchase experience. As Scrum Master your job is to continuously flag and communicate impediments for your team by working with the Product Manager, and fellow scrum masters, while communicating a clear and concise analysis of the product team’s progress and velocity. The Scrum Master knows how to manage the team’s time and offer recommendations to the Product Manager to improve the quality of incoming features, epics, and user stories, monitor workloads, note complexities and integrations, and look ahead to strategize release planning. The Scrum Master works directly with the product managers, business analysts, product designers, lead engineers, group architects, quality assurance analysts, vendors, and analysts; plus, the Scrum Master works with fellow scrum masters, program managers, project managers, and cross-functional partners to integrate, plan the work and communicate on status..

A day in the life:

You will be responsible for maintaining a fast-paced scrum-based team that delivers updates and innovations to the digital portfolio of guest and educator facing experiences for lululemon. You will work very closely with the Digital Product Management Team and a team spread across multiple cities. You will work with other Scrum Masters and Product Managers to integrate developments with other teams, vendors, or shared resources. You will guide your product team to adhere to the scrum framework and maintain the highest standards of compliance, security, and scale.

Use your skills, experience, and talent to be a part of rapid and innovative development. As a Scrum Master, you’ll take the lead as you…

• Lead a self-organized team that you garner respect from
• Roll up your sleeves to creatively solve problems and tackle impediments with your team
• Communicate constantly with relevant information that others may action or learn from
• Demonstrate the value of scrum principles to members of the team
• Assert yourself as a voice of reason to ensure Agile concepts and principles are adhered to
• Make decisions when the going gets tough and facilitate decision-making moments for others
• Provide rationale and state assumptions to validate those tough decisions
• Address and facilitate conflict, in the moment, with diplomacy and poise or possibly elevate issues to management
• Energize the team with a positive attitude
• Continually seek to improve the team’s velocity and growth while constantly seeking to improve your own craft
• Empower the team to be self-organized yet structured around the scrum framework and best practices
• Provide clear visibility into progress to the product owner and program manager
• Know when issues or risks need to be escalated and can escalate effectively, providing options to move forwards
• Create and manage budgets and report on budget and status to the business stakeholders, PMO, program & technology management and multiple cross-functional partners
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure the team’s sprint backlog is filled with comprehensive user stories that are balanced across task types
• Hold an attitude of transparency to grow trust from stakeholders, partners, and team members
• Adapt, pivot, and change direction based on product owner direction and business needs
• Convey and illustrate the fundamentals of iterative development
• Understand the basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
• Commit the team to deliver the features of the sprint and check the pulse of this commitment at each team stand up
• Manage backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Highlight best practices, industry standards and Agile principles where guidance is needed
• Radiate information that helps with the moving parts of integrating the team, the initiatives, the systems, and the organization

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of scrum master / agile project manager role and experience in eCommerce
• Experience with retail and roll-out of new technologies, hardware and applications to stores
• Experience working in an agile development including tools like JIRA, Confluence and others
• Experience managing project budgets in excess of $1M
• Strong communication skills, team management and ability to build relationships across cross-functional teams
• Digital expertise and experience
• Core understanding of mobile technologies and software development
• 2 or more years of experience managing remote teams
• Nice to have first level scrum training (Certified Scrum Master)
• Demonstrated experience of instilling a continuous improvement culture

Must haves:

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.

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Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.

lululemon is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you would like someone from our team to contact you for individualized support, email us at . In your email, please include the position title, the location of the position and the nature of your request.

Company: Lululemon Athletica

Expected salary:

Location: Canada

Job date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 04:34:46 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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