Scrum Lead, Justworks
$115-126.5k
Business operations platform
Job no longer available
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$115-126.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree or global equivalent in a relevant field
- 1-3 years of experience in an Agile software development environment
- Knowledgeable in SAFe, Agile, Scrum and ideally other disciplines (i.e. Lean, Kanban, XP practices)
- CSM, SAFe certification would be a plus
- Experience in assisting teams use effectively the tools needed to execute on a sprint-by-sprint basis
- Experience with software planning tools and/or project management tools (Jira, Confluence, etc)
- Strong communication skills
- Creative problem-solver with a passion for making complex things simple(r)
What the job involves
- You will work collaboratively with engineering, product and design leaders to coordinate team level planning and dependency management
- Your role entails participating in regular check-ins with agile working groups, helping keep deliverables on track, and driving change as you anticipate how others might be impacted
- Customer focus - builds strong customer relationships and coach teams to deliver customer-centric solutions
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
- Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
- Plans and aligns - breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions; stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules
- Business insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
- You will demonstrate Agile behaviors, embracing Agile principles in relentless pursuit of continuous improvement both individually and organizationally
- You will be organizing product and platform features, tech debt, and bugs and help teams within your team, helping to establish the rhythm in delivering great software
- You will continuously assess your program teams’ Agile maturity level and elevate our Agile adoption to the next level, with the ultimate goal of delivering great software to our customers quickly, often and safely
- You will participate in Product Engineering wide planning and collaboration activities (i.e scrum of scrums) through a set of standardized tools and workflows
- Maintain outcome driven roadmaps, detailed project timelines and make adjustments as needed, setting clear expectations for the program
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate potential risks to the success of initiatives you lead
- You will be constantly identifying and communicating the progress, conflicts, blockers, risks, and cross-team dependencies to stakeholders as it relates to your teams’ initiatives
- You will foster trust and collaboration across the team(s); make it safe to challenge, experiment, and fail without fear
- You will foster the continuous celebration of successes and learnings from the past
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's 2024 acquisition of the international employment-of-record (EOR) company Via is a promising sign of it's continued strength.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Founder & Directive)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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