Do you want to help build a world-class institution from the region, experience the thrill of being part of a high-growth technology company, and improve people lives?
There is only one way to build an awesome institution: to attract exceptionally talented people who are aligned with the mission of the organisation and make them partners in success. At Careem, our mission is to simplify & improve the lives of people, initially through solutions that make transportation in the region reliable, and over time, through disruptions in payments and logistics. In the process, we want to build an organisation that inspires and become a world-class institution from the region.
Founded in 2012 by former entrepreneurs and McKinsey alums, Careem is the MENA regions leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 50+ cities across 11 countries and host over 6million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018. Read more about us and .
About the role: The Scrum Master is one of three roles in the product/engineering team that is responsible for rapid delivery of high quality features. The other two roles are developers and navigators/product owners.
The scrum Master is a servant-leader role that enables the team to self-organize/manage and focus. (S)he also facilitates continuous improvement. (S)he has experience from working in joint product/engineering teams before (s)he transitioned into a scrum master role.
The scrum master has a leading role in the team (together with the product owner and tech lead) but works with the whole team
Essential Duties: Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile principles, practices and values to delight customers.
Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self organization.
- Guiding the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile frameworks.
- Assessing the Agile Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Supporting and educating the Product Organization, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Supporting and educating the Engineering Organization, especially with respect to agile engineering practices.
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
Technical Requirements: - Deep understanding of Agile approaches like Scrum, XP, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- Deep understanding of widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, User story mapping, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
- Deep understanding of change management
- Understanding of Facilitation Techniques
- Understanding of Lean approaches like Lean UX, Lean Start-up, Kanban, KaiZen
- Deep understanding of Conflict Management
- Understanding of Problem solving and Analysis techniques
- Understanding of Modeling Languages and Techniques like UML, Conceptual Modeling
- Understanding of Agile Testing
- Understanding of Agile Roadmapping and Requirements
- Understanding of agile tools, like Jira.
Experience Required: - A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience as described below.
- Experience working as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master for at least 3 years for a Product/software development team that was diligently applying Agile principles, practices, and theory.
- Experience of working with product development or software development for at least an additional 2 years
