Scrum Master (February 2025)

Scrum Master

Who we are:

Cambridge Brain Sciences is a leading B2B SaaS-based assessment platform. We enable healthcare providers working in mental health, rehabilitation, and healthy aging, to quickly collect scientific, objective, and quantifiable information related to cognitive performance and mental health. To learn more about our organization, please visit www.cambridgebrainsciences.com

You will be part of a team that includes not just your typical SaaS business functions (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success), but also engineers, psychologists, Data scientists , business leaders, and even a world-renowned neuroscientist. We are proud to say that you will be surrounded by some of the smartest, most enthusiastic, and dedicated people that you’ll ever meet (at least, that we’ve ever met!).

What we are looking for:

As a Scrum Master at Cambridge Brain Sciences, you will:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily scrum, and sprint retrospectives.
• Develop and maintain appropriate communication channels, to ensure all team members are always in the know.
• Guide the team on how to use Agile/ Scrum practices and values.
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
• Refine and improve the quality of stories ensuring business value and acceptance criteria are clearly articulated.
• Manage scope creep and balance short-term requests from clients against their long-term needs as expressed by our product roadmap; in other words, prioritize and protect engineers from inevitable interferences in order to safeguard forecasts and timelines.
• Facilitate the identification and implementation of improvement strategies to increase productivity and quality of processes and deliverables.
• Ensure delivery of stories committed to for a sprint, including maintenance of momentum, upholding a sustainable pace of delivery, and tracking agile metrics to provide statistical proof of momentum and sustainability and evidence for making decisions during planning meetings.
• Understand long-term product roadmap plans, and use the roadmap to inform sprint plans that allow for quicker gains to benefit our end users.
• Ensure lightweight documentation is captured in our product vision statement, product backlog, product roadmap, story map, release plan, sprint backlog, and similar artifacts.
• Maintain compliance with relevant healthcare regulations such as HIPAA.
• Nurture strong relationships with all stakeholders on all teams, and in particular with the Product Owner.
• Partner with the Agile Coach and all members of our Technology team to share findings, best practices, and resources that help mature the organization’s Agile approach and our company-specific Agile framework. .

Some of the skills and experience we are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience as a scrum master , preferably working with SAAS applications.
• Familiarity with various software engineering practices, including source control, automated testing, and a task-based workflow.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to effectively present concepts to other team members.
• Ability to navigate life in an early-stage company: multi-task, reprioritize, perform multiple roles simultaneously, drive multiple projects forward in parallel while meeting deadlines.
• Exceptional skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Strong knowledge of Atlassian products.
• Agile certifications are a plus.

Our Core Technologies:

• Please refer to https://stackshare.io/cambridge-brain-sciences/cambridge-brain-sciences

People who succeed at Cambridge Brain Sciences have a sense of urgency, a lot of initiative, natural curiosity, strong internal drive, and enthusiasm about growing a company… as well as a sense of humour - if this all sounds good to you we invite you to join us!

Some of the reasons people choose to join the Cambridge Brain Sciences team:

• You will be part of a growing and innovative Healthtech company, and you will meaningfully contribute to driving our initiatives forward. An amazing opportunity to be part of an organization that is striving to improve patient care.
• Career paths leading to more senior roles. We invest heavily in the development of our team members, provide significant opportunities for growth and career advancement, and do everything we can to support one another and ensure individual and team success.
• You will be part of a team that includes not just your typical SaaS business functions (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success), but also engineers, psychologists, business leaders, and even a world-renowned neuroscientist.
• A purpose-driven hybrid work model workplace that allows our people to enjoy the benefits of both in person and remote. (Please note that our onboarding for this role is to take place in person)
• Both in-person and virtual activities that bring our team together every week-even during this working remote world we live in. (i.e., weekly company connects, quarterly social events, and team gatherings)
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes health, vision, dental, and mental health.

Additional Information:

At Cambridge Brain Sciences we are building towards a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace to empower and create access and opportunity for all. Our leadership and everyone on our team are committed to fostering an environment where you feel respected, supported, heard, and valued. We work hard to ensure everyone can reach their full potential.

Cambridge Brain Sciences. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability, or another legally protected status. We are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA). Cambridge Brain Sciences will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation, please notify us directly at careers@cambridgebrainsciences.com and we will work with you to meet your needs.