• Lead Scrum events including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, Demos, and PI Planning. • Build strong relationships to foster collaboration, transparency, and innovation across highly cross-functional Agile software development teams supporting CI/CD. • Proactively identify and remove impediments that hinder team progress. • Assist the Product Manager in effective backlog management, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and alignment of items with business goals. • Champion Agile values and quality practices, coordinate across organizations, and coach team members on process improvements and best practices. • Work closely with senior-level client leadership and business stakeholders, advising on process standardization and continuous improvement. • Guide the development team in self-organization, cross-functionality, and adopting Agile principles to maximize performance. • Mediate conflicts, resolve issues, and ensure healthy communication between the development team, Product Manager, and stakeholders. • Promote continuous improvement by identifying process enhancements and applying Agile best practices. • Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and ensure the success of the project.

Role Description Facilitate cross-functional engineering teams in the delivery and implementation of new products or upgrades to existing products. There is an on-front expectation that this accountability can span up to two distinct Agile teams. Develop detailed schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports, conduct project meetings and ensure adherence to quality standards. - Maintain multiple-sprint release plans, release trajectory and release burndown based on capacity and velocity predictions. - Facilitates cross-team, program wide rituals, like release planning or program retrospectives. - Promote continuous improvement and help teams increase efficiency to maximize capacity, promote predictability and assure software and process quality. - Establish team working agreements, help resolve impediments, facilitate productivity, and increase the probability of success in each sprint. - Provide visibility of team status and issues to senior management. - Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity, innovation and commitment to objectives. - Work closely with product owner towards the success of the product release. Qualifications - At least 3+ years of Scrum Master experience. - Experience of agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, etc. and knowledge of scaled frameworks like SAFe. - Experience in tracking and publishing different metrics regularly to various stakeholders like Sprint reports, Status, burndown charts, velocity. - Moderation skill to organize and implement and lead all scrum ceremonies. - Demonstrated experience with software estimation and planning techniques. - Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver quality software. - Assessing the Scrum 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. - Ability to implement Scrum Framework from scratch. Benefits - Flexible work arrangements to provide support, including remote work and flexible work hours. - Career growth programs and diverse professions crafted to support exploring a world of opportunities. - Opportunities to equip yourself with valuable certifications in the latest technologies such as Generative AI.

• Agile Delivery Management – Facilitate Agile/Scrum processes and ensure successful execution of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and release planning activities. • AI Project Experience – Detailed in Depth AI Project Experience is a must. Should have worked on at least 4-5 large scale AI Engineering Projects. • Scrum Facilitation – Guide Scrum teams in adopting and following Agile principles, Scrum framework, and organizational Agile best practices to improve team efficiency and delivery predictability. • Impediment Resolution – Identify, track, and proactively remove blockers or impediments impacting team productivity and project timelines. • Stakeholder Collaboration – Work closely with Product Owners, Business Teams, Engineering Teams, QA Teams, Architects, and leadership stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities, scope, and delivery expectations. • Agile Coaching & Mentoring – Coach team members and stakeholders on Agile mindset, Scrum principles, servant leadership, continuous improvement, and Agile maturity enhancement. • Project Tracking & Reporting – Monitor project progress using Agile metrics such as velocity, burndown charts, sprint health, release tracking, and team performance indicators. Provide regular status updates and reports to leadership. • Cross Functional Team Coordination – Coordinate across distributed onsite and offshore teams to ensure smooth communication, dependency management, and delivery synchronization. • Risk & Dependency Management – Identify project risks, dependencies, and escalation points early and drive mitigation strategies to ensure successful project execution. • Agile Tools & Platforms – Experienced in using Agile project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Rally, Trello, or similar platforms. • Program Governance – Ensure compliance with organizational governance standards, Agile delivery frameworks, documentation standards, and project management processes. • Enterprise Agile Transformation – Support enterprise Agile transformation initiatives and contribute toward scaling Agile practices across teams and programs. • Communication Management – Facilitate effective communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders and ensure transparency in project execution and delivery status. • Resource & Team Coordination – Support resource planning, onboarding coordination, and collaboration across multiple Agile teams when required.

Role Description The Scrum Master is a key role within Circana's Global Operations team, embedded in the Deepcurrents initiative. Reporting to the Vice President of AI & Intelligent Automation Delivery, this position drives the continuous delivery of AI use cases and Intelligent Automation solutions using Scrum methodology. The Scrum Master ensures operational teams can rapidly ideate, build, and release automation capabilities that advance Circana's zero-touch, AI-enabled operating model. Circana is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support the Operations team in delivering AI use cases and Intelligent Automation initiatives at pace and scale. Using Scrum as the primary delivery methodology, this role enables cross-functional Operations squads to continuously plan, build, test, and release automation solutions, from micro-automations to AI-powered workflows. The Scrum Master will work closely with Operations leads, Value Stream Process Owners, data scientists, and automation engineers to maintain a healthy delivery cadence, remove blockers, and ensure each sprint produces tangible business value. This is a hands-on role suited for someone who understands both Agile delivery and the operational complexity of deploying AI and automation in a live production environment. Job Responsibilities - Agile Facilitation: Lead and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives. Ensure meetings are focused, time-boxed, and outcome-driven with a particular focus on sprint-based delivery of AI use cases and automation builds within the Operations team. - Impediment Removal: Proactively identify, track, and resolve impediments that block the delivery of AI use cases or automation releases. Escalate systemic issues — such as data access gaps, tooling limitations, or cross-team dependencies. - Coaching & Mentorship: Coach team members, Value Stream Process Owners, and stakeholders on Agile and Scrum principles. Champion a growth mindset and support the continuous development of Agile maturity across the organization. - Metrics & Reporting: Track and communicate key Agile metrics including velocity, sprint burndown, cycle time, and team health. Provide data-driven insights to the VP and leadership to inform planning and decision-making. - Dependency & Risk Management: Identify and manage cross-team dependencies and delivery risks. Collaborate with Program Managers and Release teams to ensure alignment and smooth execution across Agile Release Trains or program increments. - Continuous Improvement: Drive retrospective action items and foster a culture of inspect-and-adapt. Lead initiatives to improve team processes, delivery practices, and ways of working across the Agile portfolio. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Management, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred. - Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification required. - 5+ years as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach, with at least 2 years supporting technology, data, or operations teams delivering automation or AI-driven solutions. - Demonstrated experience running Scrum ceremonies for continuous delivery pipelines. - Familiarity with AI/ML project delivery lifecycles and intelligent automation programs is strongly preferred. - Proficiency in Agile tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps. - Working knowledge of intelligent automation technologies such as RPA, OCR, ETL pipelines, and AI/ML platforms (e.g., Power Automate, Copilot Studio, Python, Airflow, or equivalent). - Understanding of CI/CD principles and how they apply to automation and AI use case deployment in operational environments. - Strong servant leadership mindset with the ability to influence without authority. - Exceptional communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills. - Ability to foster psychological safety, team cohesion, and a culture of accountability. - Analytical and data-driven approach to continuous improvement. - Experience working in data analytics, market research, or SaaS environments preferred. - Willingness to travel as needed (up to 10%). Benefits - Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off. - Medical/dental/vision insurance. - 401(k) to eligible employees. Location This position can be located in the following area(s): Remote, United States. Compensation The salary range for this role is $110,000 - 150,000. This job is also eligible for bonus pay.