Scrum Master Intern - Cvent
Tysons Corner, VA 22102
About the Job
Cvent is a leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and nearly 22,000 customers worldwide. Founded in 1999, the company delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business.
Also known as Project Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager, steers a group of development teams to efficiently reach corporate goals. The Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager facilitates processes, escalates impediments, manages risk, promotes architectural strength, and helps to drive continuous improvement at the project level. A project is composed of multiple development teams associated with one business line and the Scrum Master acts as a servant leader to maintain alignment with product strategy and corporate priorities.
In This Role, You Will::- Scheduling, coordinating meetings for development teams
- Facilitating meetings by allowing and encouraging constructive communication and helping to keep topics on track throughout the events
- Helps to establish release and sprint cadence
- Manage and coordinate risks/dependencies and organize the team artifacts
- Identifies and escalates impediments
- Publishes committed project objectives
- Coordinates with product owners to keep the release and individual team sprint backlogs groomed
- Provide up-to-date and accurate department defined metrics on team performance, findings, issues and progress
- Participates in Scrum of Scrums
- Encourages Architect and Team collaboration
- Coordinates timely response and support to production line customer issues and helps to ensure that teams maintain adherence to Service Level Agreements
- Participates in Release Planning process
- Promotes adherence to Agile software development best practices
- Drives continuous improvement initiatives at the project and team level
- Students with graduation date of May 2026
- Working towards a Bachelor's degree in a related discipline
- GPA: 3.0 or higher
- Software development and/or project management experience, knowledge of Agile methodologies
- Understanding of backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition
- Strong leadership, time management, conflict resolution, and analytical skills
- Situational Awareness -Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management
- Enthusiastic -Must be high-energy
- Drive for continual improvement
- Quick learner -Must be able to quickly gain a high-level understanding of the technical and business domains of the development teams
- Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are a must
- Outstanding written and oral communication
- Experience with Atlassian Tools such as Jira and Confluence preferred, but not required.
Most importantly, a successful candidate will be passionate about technology. Keeping up with the latest advancements in the industry; spending time creating, building, and exploring with technical projects; an inquisitive attitude in regard to the workings of hardware and software; and overall, simply having fun and finding enjoyment in the field
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