Job Description
As a Scrum Master, you will be responsible for facilitating ceremonies and team delivery, removing (and guiding the team to remove) blockers and impediments, assessing and coaching the team to higher levels of Scrum maturity, and building a trusting and safe environment. You must demonstrate a strong understanding of SDLC as well as an in-depth knowledge of Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
About us
Kyivstar.Tech is a Ukrainian hybrid IT company and a resident of Diia.City. We are a subsidiary of Kyivstar, one of Ukraine’s largest telecom operators.
Our mission is to change lives in Ukraine and around the world by creating technological solutions and products that unleash the potential of businesses and meet users’ needs.
Over 500+ KS. Tech specialists work daily in various areas: mobile and web solutions, as well as design, development, support, and technical maintenance of high-performance systems and services.
We believe in innovations that bring quality changes and constantly challenge conventional approaches and solutions. Each of us is an adherent of entrepreneurial culture, which allows us never to stop, to evolve, and to create something new.
What you will do
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, ensure alignment of expectations, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.
- Drive team focus on product metrics, prioritizing value and user impact over task completion.
- Enable frequent, streamlined releases and guide teams and business toward predictable, incremental delivery cycles.
- Optimize workflows by eliminating unnecessary processes and implementing continuous improvements.
- Coach teams to foster autonomy, support professional growth, and resolve conflicts effectively.
- Facilitate planning sessions, backlog refinements, and retrospectives, ensuring they are structured, productive, and inclusive.
- Balance discovery and delivery efforts, helping teams manage priorities and workload efficiently.
Qualifications and experience needed
- At least 2 years of experience as a Scrum Master in an app/web development team
- Ability to deliver within each sprint according to the product roadmap
- Guide the team on how to get the most out of self-organization
- Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible
- Agile practices, patterns, and techniques such as automated testing, user stories, TDD, continuous integration, planning, etc
- Advanced understanding of task decomposing principles, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, focus factor, capacity analysis, etc.
- Theory and practical knowledge of the Scale Scrum framework
- Strong sense of ownership for projects and team performance
- Good skills to coach the team on how to follow agile scrum, which works
- Understand the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
- Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
- Jira advanced user/admin
- English - Upper-Intermediate
Team
- You will be joining a team delivering innovative solutions to Products that need your inspired approach and enthusiasm
- You will be joining the most innovative department in the biggest telecommunications company in Ukraine
- You will be working with highly motivated professionals on different Products
What we offer
- Office or remote — it’s up to you. You can work from anywhere, and we will arrange your workplace
- Remote onboarding
- Performance bonuses
- We train employees with the opportunity to learn through the company’s library, internal resources, and programs from partners
- Health and life insurance
- Wellbeing program and corporate psychologist
- Reimbursement of expenses for Kyivstar mobile communication
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
