Chief Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Project Description:

Developing new generation LiDAR based platform for Autonomous Driving.

Responsibilities:

Pillar Project Management

• Responsible for controlling and achieving Product Quality / Cost / Delivery (schedule) targets
• Chief Scrum Master at pillar level, responsible for output of 8-10 sub-module teams
• Management project presentations: Making the development progress transparent, incl. Escalation Needs (also managing the escalations)
• Identify applicable Lessons learned cards (LLC)
• Risk management: Removing Roadblocks for the project team
• Stakeholder Management: Strong coordination with Engineering and associated teams to ensure the project goals and priority is understood and committed by concerned stakeholders

Team Facilitation

• Coordinating between product team and product owners within a cross-functional team
• Supporting project teams in daily activities and ensuring transparency about teamwork and progress towards everyone
• Hosts Daily Stand-up Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Retrospectives and Reviews
• Moderating and mediating in and between teams & interconnections to other projects
• Coaching team members and the product owner on Agile processes
• Ensure new mindset and agile working culture
• Removing Roadblocks for the project team
• Prevent work-overload and ensure team members can fulfill Sprint/PI goals.

Project Support

• Supporting the Product Owner with the Product Backlog
• Being the Process, Tools & Methods Authority
• Prepares decision making process for relevant committee
• Providing the right toolset to the teams
• Making the development progress transparent, incl. Escalation Needs (also managing the escalations)
• Create project in all needed tools
• Identify applicable Lessons learned cards (LLC)
• Monitoring the Shielding Interference (ensuring that the team can focus)
• Consulting the owners and management board
• Establish process/standards and methods. Provide templates.
• Responsible for the ticket status in CoreALM: illustrate the state of the project and the progress of the team (using KPIs like "velocity factor").
• Risk & Impediments management: follow the status of blockers (inter-Pillars).
• Check if dependencies (inside/outside functions Pillars) are considered and tasks planned.

Skills

Must Have:

• Engineering background
• Project Scope Management
• Problem Solving
• Automotive Domain knowledge
• 6 years of professional experience including years as Project Manager or Scrum Master
• Experience with with a range of agile frameworks, methods and tools (e.g. Kanban or Design Thinking)
• Coaching skills and a deeper understanding of coaching techniques and attitudes
• Good working knowledge of situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, and increasing transparency
• Experience in building and developing teams in an international, intercultural and remote setting
• Good understanding and practical experience of change management principles, techniques & tools
• Very good communication skills and high solution orientation
• Fluent English

Nice to Have:

• German language

Languages:

• English: C1 Advanced