Scrum Master (M/F)

SESAMm

SESAMm (www.sesamm.com) extracts behavioral insights from millions of unstructured text data sources across the public internet in over 100 languages, helping clients distill valuable intelligence on businesses and their customers to make investment decisions and manage risk. 

We work with many well-known firms around the world in private equity, investment banking, insurance, and asset management to apply Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence algorithms to track e-reputation, competitive positioning, sentiment analysis, risk and ESG factors.

SESAMm is growing quickly, with over 90 team members around the globe and offices in Paris, New York, London, Metz, Tunis, and Tokyo.

Key technologies: Alternative Data, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Quantitative Analysis.

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you dream of joining a growing company, proposing new ideas, and taking part in innovative processes?

At SESAMm, everyone brings their ideas, skills, and creativity. We value collaboration, support and teamwork. We learn every day from the experience of this great team and we constantly take up new challenges. We are proud of the work accomplished and to participate in the success of this great adventure! 

The Scrum Master Role

As a Scrum Master you will coach and guide the team to ensure adoption of Agile principles, leading to the delivery of the highest value to the customer. You will help them remove impediments and champion continuous improvement in your team and throughout the organization. Critical aspects of your work will be to ensure good communication in a safe environment, support learning and feedback and help the people around you grow.

You will be joining a rapidly expanding team early in its growth cycle, which means you will have an opportunity to shape the team’s culture.

Key Activities

• Being a servant-leader for the team
• Guiding the team and organization on Agile practices and values to satisfy customers, in self organization and on how to go beyond the Scrum framework (complementing Agile frameworks with technical excellence and practices, scaling to the organization, interactions with other actors)
• Assessing the Agile maturity of the team and organization and contributing to the ideation and implementation of the strategies leading to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Leading the team to remove impediments in a self-organized way 
• Helping the team implement the right tools to achieve even higher levels of quality (automatized testing, CI/CD, technical and non-technical tools to improve the quality of life of the team and the organization)
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or being judged with an emphasis on problem solving and improvement, facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution, championing training, capitalization and flow improvement
• Supporting internal and external communication, transparency, inspection, adaptation and collaboration. Promoting measurement of outcomes, flow and competency.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog, building the MVP and the roadmap
• Collaborating with other Agilists to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile in the organization and global improvement of our products, practice and culture

Desired Background and Skills

Experience

• 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master in at least two different teams

Skills

• Strong level of English and French
• Mastery of agile principles (practices and theory) and frameworks : Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Good interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills (and patience!)
• Being used to remote and multicultural teams
• Knowledge and experience with Agile techniques, tools and artifacts : User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair Programing, Automated Testing, Retrospective, Serious Games, Jira, Burndown 
• Experience in facilitation (meeting, event, etc.) and conflict resolution
• Scrum Master Certification (PSMI or more / SAFe SM / CSM or more / etc.)

Even better

• Experience as an Agile coach
• Having already delivered Agile training
• Knowledge and experience with technical frameworks like Extreme programming
• Technical background in order to help the team improve their practices 
• Mastery of technical tools and processes aiming to help the team

Benefits of Working at SESAMm

Flexibility: Team members can work remotely and have the opportunity to work with colleagues around the world.

Work environment: SESAMm is multicultural, with technology, sales, and management teams in the US, France, and Tunisia making important contributions to the company’s growth.

Career development: SESAMm is growing quickly, which means the opportunities for your own growth are continually expanding, and that you can shape the company’s culture and evolution.

Professional evolution: SESAMm values training and knowledge-sharing. We organize internally and externally led training sessions and pay for access to educational platforms.

Transparency: You will be kept apprised of the company’s continuing evolution and performance through monthly “Ask Me Anything” meetings, frequent business/finance updates, and strategy-sharing discussions.

Well-being: Building a good culture is key to building a good business at SESAMm. We focus on being a learning organization that values and supports teamwork, thoughtfulness, and work/life balance.

Job Specifics

• Location: Metz/Paris
• Duration: Permanent contract
• Type of contract: Full time
• Start Date: As soon as possible