Scrum Master (Remote)

Title: Scrum Master

Location: Remote

Years of Experience: 3-6 years

Compensation: INR 6-10 LPA

About Apperture

Apperture is a cutting-edge technology company specializing in AI, NLP, and LLM applications. We are dedicated to revolutionizing the way businesses interact with and utilize artificial intelligence to enhance processes and drive business growth. We run a profitable business serving industries with solutions for data pipelines, data warehousing, chatbots, data-bots, and fine-tuned LLMs for internal and external use cases.

The Community You Will Join

At Apperture, we are a fast-moving, innovation-focused team delivering transformative AI solutions to our clients. As part of this team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the success of our agile product development processes.

In our dynamic startup environment, every team member wears multiple hats, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to building cutting-edge AI applications that drive tangible results for businesses worldwide.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Scrum Master at Apperture, you will be the driving force behind our agile development teams, ensuring processes run efficiently and deliverables align with business priorities. You will facilitate collaboration, remove impediments, and help the team adapt quickly in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. By fostering a culture of trust and continuous improvement, you will empower our teams to deliver value with speed and precision.

Your role will extend beyond the traditional Scrum Master responsibilities. In our startup ecosystem, you will have opportunities to contribute to additional areas such as capacity planning, documentation, testing, and recruitment—playing a pivotal role in Apperture’s growth.

A Typical Day

• Kickstart the day: Facilitate daily stand-up meetings to align the team on priorities, identify blockers, and ensure progress toward sprint goals.
• Collaborate with Product Owners: Participate in product discovery calls to deeply understand problem statements, proposed solutions, and business objectives.
• Plan and refine: Assist in planning sprints, refining user stories, and maintaining a prioritized and clear product backlog.
• Resolve blockers: Actively remove impediments that slow down the team, whether they are technical, operational, or interpersonal.
• Enable team focus: Shield the team from distractions and scope creep, ensuring they remain aligned with sprint goals.
• Track progress and metrics: Monitor sprint velocity, completion rates, and other key metrics to identify areas of improvement and maintain momentum.
• Adapt to changes: Facilitate quick pivots as priorities shift, balancing long-term vision with immediate deliverables.
• Lean startup mindset: Support the team in delivering an MVP and iterating based on feedback, emphasizing value delivery with minimal waste.
• Multitask when needed: Assist with capacity planning, testing, documentation, and recruitment as part of our collaborative and hands-on culture.
• Foster communication: Promote alignment between product managers, developers, leadership, and stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery and proactive risk management.
• Reflect and improve: Lead sprint retrospectives, ensuring the team adopts actionable feedback and continues to grow.

Your Expertise

• Scrum and Agile Practices: Deep understanding of Agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban with the ability to adapt them to a dynamic startup environment.
• Facilitation Skills: Strong experience conducting daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives effectively.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: A proactive approach to identifying and resolving blockers to team progress.
• Collaboration: Proven ability to foster trust, facilitate open communication, and encourage constructive feedback.
• Adaptability: Willingness and ability to take on additional responsibilities such as capacity planning, recruitment, testing, and documentation.
• Metrics Focused: Capability to monitor team performance through lightweight metrics like velocity and cycle time to drive continuous improvement.
• Technical Background: A degree in computer science or a related field. Experience working with AI, NLP, or LLM products is a plus.
• Lightweight Tools: Streamline workflows using tools like Trello, Jira, or Notion, ensuring efficient backlog management without unnecessary overhead.

What We Value

• Ownership: You thrive in a startup environment where you take initiative and accountability for driving outcomes.
• Curiosity: A willingness to dive deep into problem statements and find creative solutions.
• Collaboration: Team-first mindset, working seamlessly with developers, product managers, and stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Comfort with wearing multiple hats, pivoting quickly, and balancing competing priorities.
• Continuous Learning: A growth mindset to learn, iterate, and improve every step of the way.

Why Apperture?

• Innovative Work: Be at the forefront of building AI-powered products that make a real difference.
• Growth Opportunities: In a fast-growing startup, you will have unmatched opportunities to take ownership and grow professionally.
• Collaborative Environment: Join a team that values trust, learning, and open communication.
• Flexibility: Thrive in a flexible remote work environment where results matter more than processes.

Ready to make a difference? Join Apperture to help build the future of AI.