Scrum Master

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid working with approximately once-a-week onsite attendance

Company

hirify.global is a European media business producing print and digital publishing, audio broadcasting, radio, podcasts, and entertainment content across multiple markets.

What you will do

• Facilitate Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Establish and continuously improve agile processes, ceremonies, and ways of working for a newly formed data squad.
• Coach team members on Agile principles and Scrum practices in a data-focused environment.
• Maintain and optimise Jira and Confluence for transparent sprint backlogs, squad activities, and delivery plans.
• Drive planning, tracking, backlog refinement, roadmap delivery, and reporting of delivery metrics.
• Remove obstacles and foster collaboration, transparency, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Proven experience working as a Scrum Master in Agile delivery environments.
• Experience managing initiatives at scale and across markets.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage planning, dependencies, risks, deadlines, and delivery objectives.
• Familiarity with data, analytics, business intelligence, data engineering, or similar data-focused environments.

Nice to have

• Certified Scrum Master or equivalent Agile certification.
• Experience launching new teams or establishing agile processes in greenfield environments.
• Experience in media, publishing, or complex matrix organisations.
• Familiarity with Miro.
• Experience delivering projects across multiple stakeholders, markets, or business functions.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment with flexible working.
• 28 days of holiday, bank holidays, and two volunteer days.
• Access to the Bauer Academy internal training provider.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental leave pay.
• Inclusive and accessible recruitment and working environment.