SCRUM Master at Herman Miller, Inc. in Holland, Michigan

Job Description:

Description

This is a pivotal role working with stakeholders across the entire company supporting the delivery of great customer experiences, streamlining and modernizing processes, and ensuring we use data to our advantage to help teams improve. As such, this role will be key in rallying the product teams towards embracing a continuous improvement mindset in their agile journey as well as championing empirical decision making throughout the organization.

Why Join Us?

Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It's the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Herman Miller Group means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We create places where people love to be, places that reflect who they are, places that truly matter to people. And our success allows Herman Miller Group to support causes that align with our values, so we can help create a more equitable and sustainable future for all.

Inside the Job

Your day-to-day work will involve:

Be a servant leader for 2-3 product teams of varying maturity.

Assess maturity level of the product teams you're a servant leader for, and coach them in developing continuous improvement roadmaps.

Champion the use of empiricism throughout the delivery cycle (including retrospectives).

Be the model for the Continuous Improvement mindset.

Act as the center for delivery rhythm and facilitating the ceremonies of Scrum.

Collaborate with other scrum masters and agilists in Herman Miller Group to establish best practices.

• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

What You Bring

Needed skills and experience for this role include:

• Bachelor's Degree in an IT-related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.


• 2 years demonstrated experience as a scrum master required.


• 2 years demonstrated experience with continuous delivery models/frameworks strongly preferred.


• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I, etc.) preferred.

Strong analytical skills with a solid understanding of core agile delivery metrics.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including professional presentation and facilitative skills.

Problem Solver: Removes impediments that stand in the way of the team performing at their best.

Servant Leader: Garners respect from your team and are willing to get your hands dirty to the job done.

Assertive: Ensure agile & scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.

Enthusiastic and Optimistic: Have high-energy and be eternally optimistic in trying/challenging times.

Personal growth mindset: Continually grow your craft, learning new tools and techniques. Recognize and embrace failures as opportunities to learn and grow.

Continuous Improvement mindset: Collaborate with your teams to set measurable objectives to optimize process.

Conflict resolution: Facilitate discussion and alternatives or different approaches, especially with differing personalities.

Attitude of empowerment: Actively and continually coach the team towards being self-managing and organizing.

Attitude of transparency: Build trust, with both the team and stakeholders, by being an information radiator.

Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs. They describe how we live our purpose through the way we lead, the way we see one another, and the way we approach our work.

We are difference-makers reflects our commitments to creating places that matter, to being a good neighbor in our communities, and to using business as a force for good.

We are all extraordinary is our statement about the worth of individuals and our commitment to help everyone reach their full potential.

We are better together demonstrates how challenging one another, making room for everyone, and working and winning as one makes us stronger.

Who We Hire

Simply put, we hire everyone. Herman Miller is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We're committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.

Schedule

: Full-time

Employee Status

: Regular

Travel

: NoShift: FirstWork Schedule: 8am-5pm

Primary Location

: United States-Michigan-Holland

Other Locations

: United States, United States-Michigan-Zeeland Apply Now