AI Technical Scrum Master

About the role

We are looking for a Technical Scrum Master specialized in AI to drive Scrum execution across fast‑moving AI initiatives. You will partner closely with AI leadership and technical teams to ensure smooth sprint planning, execution, and delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies for AI teams, including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Coach the team on Scrum values, sprint discipline, ownership and self‑organization.
• Translate AI priorities into clear sprint tasks with owners, acceptance criteria, dependencies and a definition of done.
• Time‑box research spikes and experimental work, and remove blockers related to data, APIs, environments, QA, integrations, infrastructure or unclear requirements.
• Coordinate dependencies with engineering, QA, DevOps, data, infrastructure and security teams.
• Support AI evaluation and QA readiness by tracking test cases, edge cases, validation criteria and quality checks.
• Build AI‑powered automations and workflows for sprint planning, progress tracking, reporting, blocker management and follow‑ups.
• Maintain sprint boards, blocker trackers, delivery dashboards and technical documentation.
• Prepare daily and weekly progress updates for AI leadership and protect the team from unnecessary interruptions.

Required profile

• 3–5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, preferably in a technical software, AI, ML, data or R&D environment.
• CSM, PSM I or equivalent Scrum certification.
• Strong understanding of Scrum values beyond ceremonies.
• Experience coaching technical teams through ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Practical knowledge of AI/ML workflows and software development lifecycle.
• Ability to understand technical discussions and convert them into actionable sprint tasks.

Required skills

• Jira, Linear, Trello, Notion, Confluence
• GitHub for sprint visibility and technical tracking
• Basic Python reading ability
• Familiarity with MLflow, Weights & Biases (W&B), DVC, Grafana
• Automation tools such as Claude, n8n, Jira automation, Notion automation