Position Summary:
At the WNBA, we're passionate about growing and celebrating the game of basketball. Through the intensity of the game and the amazing athletic skill of our players, we deliver excitement to hundreds of millions of fans around the world. As a global sports and media business, the WNBA is so much more. While Basketball Operations runs the league's on-court activities, other departments manage relationships with television and digital media partners, develop marketing partnerships with some of the world's most recognizable companies, oversee the licensing of WNBA merchandise, and handle a wide range of responsibilities that drive the WNBA's success.

The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, agile environment. They will have the opportunity to contribute to standards for the way work is done within our digital products organization and play a critical role in achieving the WNBA’s digital transformation. They will demonstrate a desire to learn, grow and contribute to the W’s mission and will be a great team player with excellent collaboration and communication skills. 

Major Responsibilities:
•    Effectively facilitate agile scrum ceremonies across multiple scrum teams 
•    Collaborate with the Product Management team to ensure the product backlog is continuously prioritized and maintained 
•    Collaborate with other agile team-of-teams Scrum Masters to ensure cross-functional iteration dependencies are satisfied and standard processes are being encouraged across the program 
•    Ensure proper acceptance criteria, definition of ready and done for requirements 
•    Facilitate internal and external communications (e.g., task coordination, progress, tracking/reporting, dependency management) 

Communication and Process/Operations:
•    Demonstrate clear, concise, effective verbal and written communications 
•    Lead the creation of project and product status updates for your teams based on a deep and continuously evolving understanding of the NBA's business and NextGen objectives 

Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
•    3-5 years of demonstrated ability in IT, Platform development and consumer-facing product experience 
•    Experience in PMO Leadership 
•    Project & Cross-Functional Leadership - possesses the skills, knowledge and aptitude to engage, influence, and direct all functions involved in the development of the assigned product. Able to lead in a matrix organization. 
•    Effective analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills. 
•    Dealing with ambiguity: demonstrate ability to act in a changing environment. Effective change management skills.
•    Experience in Vendor Management; 3rd party integration partners to develop the roadmap of requirements that will mitigate issues in these transitions. 
•    Experience collaborating across teams to keep alignment on digital transformation efforts and assure collaboration and best practices. 
•    Excellent communication, organizational, and multitasking skills 
•    Excellent relationship building skills 
•    Willingness to roll up your sleeves and help out in any way possible 
•    Experience working with premium digital and sports subscription products/services using AVOD, TVOD or SVOD business model(s) a plus 
•    Strong attention to detail and ability to lead multiple sub-projects at once 
•    Expertise in modern project management tools (ADO, Jira, Miro, etc) and standard methodologies, such as Agile/CSM, lean, and planning tools  
•    Ability to track and report on team velocity and burn down, ensuring successful planning and delivery based on team capacity

Highly Qualified Applicants will have:
•    A passion for the WNBA or women’s sports!
•    Relevant experience within the software development industry 
•    Experience working with AVOD, TVOD and SVOD 
•    SAFe Scrum Master or Scrum Alliance Certifications
•    Atlassian Certifications