Who You Are

You have Heart for Service

We provide extraordinary service to our customers, coworkers, and our community by going out of our way to appreciate and support them.

You are Curious

We create products that help our customers listen and be curious, and we ourselves are curious. We strive to understand our customers’ business problems and the solutions delivered with our software.

You Find a Way

We help our customers and employees succeed by finding solutions to their problems. We have a can-do attitude and we do what we say we will do. 

About Alchemer

Founded in 2006, Alchemer is a powerful survey and data insights platform that empowers business professionals to make informed decisions. As SaaS application software, it offers user-friendly data collection tools for understanding customers, markets, and employees in real time and communicating this information across an organization. It provides data insights in over 205 countries, with 50K new surveys created and 5M responses collected every week.

Alchemer has tremendous opportunity to continue this growth, based on current market size and the potential for more sophisticated product positioning and a robust sales and marketing engine. Details on Alchemer’s products and services can be found on our website (www.Alchemer.com).

What You Will Do

As a Senior Scrum Master, you are passionate about helping to unlock the potential of individuals and teams. You have a proven track record of success in agile product delivery, knowledge of best practices and the ability to provide leadership oversight and planning of development activities.  You will serve as scrum master to our teams delivering on our innovative programs.  As the senior member of the team, you will guide our scrum masters, developing and refining our scrum master playbook with a focus on quality, best practices, excellence and commitment to delivery.  This position will play a pivotal role in planning, executing, and delivering on our roadmap with a focus on delivery that will delight our customers.

How You Will Spend Your Days

• Defining our scrum master playbook and processes to ensure appropriate consistency across our development organization.
• Leading 2-3 scrum masters to drive delivery, consistency and excellence.
• Coaching and facilitating development teams through all aspects of the agile process including release planning, sprint planning, daily standups, product demos, backlog refinement, scrum of scrum meetings, and retrospectives.
• Removing impediments to team deliverables and product goals.
• Drawing on your expertise to provide feedback, course correction, mentoring, teaching and facilitating to develop highly effective teams.
• Working closely with other agile coaches to implement programs to promote best practices across the organization and evangelizing agile.
• Partnering with Product, Engineering and Operations, to understand vision and strategy and ensure program goals, business direction and technical strategies are aligned to meet that vision.
• Motivating teams, identifying, and enhancing capabilities, and removing impediments.

What You Bring to this Role

• Bachelor's degree (or related work experience)
• Experience leading other high performing scrum masters
• Commitment to excellence
• Comfortable working in a SAFe-inspired, delivery focused environment
• 5+ Years of experience in a Scrum Master role or similar Agile experience
• Scrum Master Certification CSM, PMP-ACP or CSP preferred
• Expertise in diligently applying Agile principles, practices and theory (User stories, Story Pointing, Velocity, Burndown Metrics, Agile Games, Tasking, Retrospectives, Product Demos)
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, influence and transparency
• Hands on experience with Agile tools, especially JIra and Confluence

Even better if you have:

• Agile Coach or other Agile Certifications (ICP-ACC, PSM I, PSM II, SAFe)
• Experience configuring Jira
• Experience working with various software development practices (BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Paring, Automated Testing, DevOps
• Experience working with different Agile approaches (Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban etc.)
• Exceptional verbal and written skillss

Compensation for this position includes an annual base salary of $125,000 - $140,000 eligibility for an annual bonus, and participation in the Founder’s Pool program.

Alchemer provides a rich benefits package that includes health and disability coverages, an incredible 401(k) option that includes a per-payroll match and immediate vesting, unlimited time off and eleven paid company holidays.

Alchemer is taking applications for this position from candidates who are legally authorized to work in the US and do not require now, or in the future, immigration sponsorship for work authorization.

At Alchemer, we're committed to attracting, developing, and promoting a diverse workforce, and infusing DEI throughout all of our internal practices. By ensuring that everyone is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we're increasingly capable of living out our mission in helping our clients. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. 

In our beautiful new Colorado headquarters, we are actively returning to an in-office presence and as we do so, the health and safety of our team members and customers is our top priority. As part of our return-to-office and recruiting processes, we are requiring vaccination status of our employees and candidates.