Scrum Master

Who we are:

TaxSlayer makes life simpler and less stressful for millions of Americans with exceptional, easy-to-use technology. Trusted for over 50 years, TaxSlayer saves time and money for individual customers, business owners, and tax professionals by offering tax preparation software, support, and tools. Our employees are among the brightest, most talented group of innovators who collaborate in a relentless effort to improve our products and exceed customer expectations. We boldly celebrate our progress and the amazing accomplishments of our team.

Are you a TaxSlayer?

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master to guide our Scrum teams. The Scrum Master's responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow Scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

To be successful as a Scrum Master, you should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively guide and mentor development teams. An outstanding Scrum Master should have excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.

Scrum Master Responsibilities:

• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Tracking project processes, and deliverables. Experience using Azure DevOps or JIRA preferred.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
• Experience handling multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience leading Root-Cause analysis

Scrum Master Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• Certified Scrum Master, SAFe preferred.
• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role.
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

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The TaxSlayer Vision

Radically transforming the way people use technology, allowing them to spend less time on the things they have to do and more on what they want to do.

TaxSlayer Values & Beliefs

Customer-obsessed. Everything we do starts and ends with our customers. We truly care about our customers.

Unified. We treat each other and our customers like family.

Responsible. We conduct ourselves in every action to ensure that we hold ourselves and each other accountable; deliver results; serve our community.

Bold. We celebrate our progress and success and never stop seeking to be better and do better.

What we offer:

At TaxSlayer we realize the most important aspects in leading our industry are the bright minds behind everything we do. We are proud to offer our employees a highly competitive, comprehensive, and flexible benefits program.

• We offer flexible remote and/or hybrid work options when possible, depending on the role.
• Exempt Salaried employees receive a generous PTO bank, in addition to Paid Holidays.
• Insurance: Medical insurance offerings from Humana and Guardian. Options for Employee Only, Employee + Spouse/Domestic Partner, Employee + Children, or Family. Dental & Vision insurance options are also available.
• 401K with 1.5% match on up to 3% contribution
• Performance-based bonus and salary review process
• Other offerings: Wellness Program, Life Insurance for employee, Long-term and Short-term disability, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Education Assistance, company-paid parking, on-site fitness facility, company store, and unlimited free coffee.

Please note: TaxSlayer complies with the Federal COVID Vaccination Mandate. All employees must show proof of vaccination status as a condition of employment, as allowable by law.

TaxSlayer provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.