Scrum Leader

General Motors - Austin, TX

Full-time

Austin, TX

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Scrum Leader is responsible for driving the development process within an agile framework, ensuring effective communication and alignment with organizational goals. This role involves managing resources, stakeholders, and timelines while providing leadership and guidance to project teams. The Scrum Leader promotes collaboration, removes impediments, and facilitates meetings to ensure the successful and timely delivery of product increments.

Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor and report on project status
• Provide guidance and support during execution of change management activities
• Manage the identification, documentation, and traceability of business requirements
• Prepare presentations for various levels of leadership
• Develop tracking scorecards and metrics to illustrate status and ownership
• Develop milestone reviews for key milestones and ensure the team is on track to deliver
• Track business resources and identify any shortages based on project plans
• Coordinate the input and approval of various project design and decision documents
• Assist Workstream Leaders in managing multiple efforts simultaneously across a broad range of functions, business, and organizational units
• Monitor project progress and consolidate status reports
• Demonstrate a good understanding of the processes and procedures relevant to own work area
• Independently identify and apply appropriate company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues
• Determine an appropriate course of action within broad guidelines
• Apply learned techniques to drive the solution to a problem
• Engage in daily interactions with subordinates and/or peers from other functional groups

Requirements

• Knowledge of a Project Tracking program (i.e., ADO, Jira, etc.)
• Experience administrating and configuring Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow or similar tools preferred
• Strong Communication Skills
• Strong Organizational Skills
• Ability to connect many moving issues and solutions
• Facilitation Skills
• Coaching and Mentoring Skills
• Problem-Solving and Conflict Resolution

Benefits

• Total Rewards resources for career support
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Equal Employment Opportunity policies