King posted a job you might be interested in June 26, 2014 at 10:10AM

King



Scrum Master

Barcelona Area, Spain, ES - Computer Games, Computer Software, Entertainment

Your role within our Kingdom


As a Scrum Master your mission is to enable King to become the leading star of agile software development. You would work in our Shared Technologies team that works on various projects supporting our Games Studios. Our teams work in small, autonomous groups to create and improve on social casual games that entertain millions of players. Your role is to drive the continuous improvements for the scrum processes and team dynamics, ensuring the teams run efficiently and in sustainable pace. You help to identify bottlenecks and impediments to be removed and always focusing on supporting our teams to deliver with high throughput, high quality and high fun.



Main responsibilites

• Servant leader of the team. No limits.


• Facilitating meetings


• Take care of team dynamics.


• Learning and sharing about Agile


• Help the team to improve metrics. Help the team to define the best metrics.


• Lead continuous improvement for your team


• Coordinate with the rest of Scrum Masters the creation and maintenance of a corporate collaboration culture


• Lead and train your team in the XP Practices

Skills to create thrills

• Extensive experience as Scrum master


• Experience sharing scrum initiatives through the whole organization, collaborating with the rest of scrum masters.


• Great communication and coaching skills, a good story teller.


• Passionate about agile and lean ways of working,


• Passionate about team dynamics


• Good understanding of the software development process.


• Really cares about people, know how to motivate people and help the team to be high performance.


• Challenge the team when needed.


• Ability to coach individuals and groups.


• Passionate about creating a great place to work for everyone around you.


• You live out of your comfort zone

Tasty bonus skills

• Experience as product owner


• Experience as developer


• Active member of the local community in your city/country.


• Some of your favorite books ( or videos in youtube ) are Randy Pausch last' lecture or Drive from Daniel Pink.


• You can show a track of successful projects applying the Agile principles and values.

We’re knights of creativity

We believe that great games are developed by working in small, autonomous creative teams that control the whole process – from idea to amazing game. Our close connection with and instant feedback from the player community, enables us to deliver truly magical moments. We value your free time and your need to refuel, relax and find inspiration – by playing games with your colleagues, being at home with your family or going to the gym or out for a run. That's how we stay creative. That’s why we call ourselves developers of magic and knights of creativity.



About the Barcelona Studio

The first Barcelona studio was created in the summer of 2012 to build casual games for web and mobile. We are housing two game studios and King Global Services Centre and still growing. Located centrally in sunny and friendly Barcelona it provides the perfect combination of the dynamic flexibility and rapid growth of a start-up with the security, stability and infrastructure of an industry leader. It is the home of our upcoming hit Papa Pear Saga with more hit games in the pipe!



Want to join our Kingdom?

If you are interested, please apply! Applications must be in English.

No salary provided



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