Scrum Master

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery teams in building and maintaining a centralized Smartsheet solution used to track end‑to‑end M&A activities between two merging financial services organizations. This role requires strong facilitation skills, the ability to coach teams in Agile practices, and the capability to support cross‑functional stakeholders throughout a complex, highly coordinated integration effort.

• Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Guide development and business teams in creating a unified Smartsheet‑based M&A tracking system
  , ensuring scalable structure, version control, and reporting consistency.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, project leadership, and M&A workstream leads to ensure requirements are clearly defined and aligned with integration milestones.
• Break down large M&A business requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers across cross‑company integration teams; drive resolution and maintain visibility.
• Maintain sprint metrics, capacity planning, and forecasting to support leadership reporting.
• Foster a high‑trust Agile environment, ensuring transparency, open communication, and continuous improvement.
• Support alignment across legal, compliance, technology, operations, HR, and executive teams involved in the M&A process.
• Ensure Smartsheet dashboards, automated workflows, and reporting views meet business needs for tracking progress, issues, and milestones.

• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master supporting cross‑functional technical teams.
• Strong Agile mindset and expertise in Scrum, Kanban, and scaled Agile practices.
• Hands‑on experience using Smartsheet to build structured project dashboards, automation workflows, and multi‑team tracking solutions (supported by similar enterprise use cases found in internal files).
• Experience supporting complex, multi‑team initiatives where coordination and dependency management are critical.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work across diverse business and technical groups.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business goals into clear, measurable, and actionable items.