Description and RequirementsJob Description
Location: local to greater Seattle area (highly preferred/priority), remote PST hours required (secondary consideration)What You'll Do
- Step into an existing developer-focused marketing team as a hands-on Scrum Master / Program Manager, owning the day-to-day Agile delivery rhythm.
- Lead core Agile ceremonies, including standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Partner closely with program leadership and the team to prioritize work, establish realistic sprint commitments, and align priorities with team capacity.
- Improve sprint planning and execution with a focus on reducing carryover and increasing delivery predictability.
- Identify and remove blockers, manage dependencies, and surface delivery risks that could impact commitments.
- Help mature how the team applies Agile/Scrum practices within a marketing environment focused on content and digital deliverables rather than traditional software development.
- Use delivery metrics and team insights to improve planning, prioritization, and ways of working.
- Bring an AI-forward mindset, identifying practical opportunities to use AI to improve team productivity, planning, and execution.
- Quickly ramp into an established team, provide continuity during a temporary resource gap, and support a smooth transition to the long-term resource.
What You'll Bring
- Strong hands-on experience as a Scrum Master, Program Manager, or Agile delivery leader.
- Strong working knowledge of Agile/Scrum with demonstrated experience leading ceremonies and managing sprint execution; Scrum certification is not required.
- Experience with sprint planning, backlog prioritization, capacity planning, and reducing work carried over between sprints.
- Strong program management skills across priorities, dependencies, risks, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ability to balance business priorities with realistic team capacity and facilitate trade-off conversations when demand exceeds capacity.
- A pragmatic approach to Agile, adapting practices to the team and type of work rather than rigidly applying a framework.
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to influence priorities and drive clarity.
- Experience supporting marketing, content, digital, creative, or other nontraditional Agile teams strongly preferred.
- Ability to assess an existing team's ways of working, identify opportunities for improvement, and implement changes without disrupting delivery.
- Ability to work PST hours; Seattle-area candidates who can occasionally collaborate onsite are a plus.
- An AI-forward mindset and interest in using AI-enabled tools to improve how teams work.
Compensation and Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted hourly pay range is $75 to $90hr. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
We will accept applicants until 11/9/26, or until the position is filled.
We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: [redacted]. Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.
