Agile Master - Remote (based in Germany)

• Support Development teams in continuously improving their sprint-based ways of working, including the facilitation and further development of relevant agile routines.
• Identify and address conflicts, impediments, dependencies, and collaboration issues, involving the right stakeholders when broader organizational decisions are required.
• Design and facilitate retrospectives, team workshops, and cross-functional alignment formats across Development and selected other teams.
• Coach Product roles, and team members in pragmatic agile practices, self-organization, effective collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Support selected organizational development and scaling initiatives by contributing facilitation, methodological expertise, and a team-effectiveness perspective when needed.
• Ensure that outcomes from retrospectives and workshops translate into clear actions, ownership, and consistent follow-up.
• Develop and maintain lightweight, reusable formats, templates, and working agreements that support effective collaboration as the organization scales rapidly., * Strengthen our Development delivery system: Establish and further develop clear, effective, and consistently applied sprint routines across the relevant Development teams, including planning, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement follow-ups.
• Increase team effectiveness: Help Development teams identify and address their most relevant impediments, resulting in clearer ownership, more reliable collaboration across scaling intercepts, and fewer recurring process-related blockers.
• Extend effective collaboration practices beyond Development: Design and facilitate selected retrospectives and improvement workshops for teams such as Operations, Marketing, and cross-functional teams or projects, adapting pragmatic methods to their specific context.
• Improve cross-functional collaboration: Identify recurring friction at interfaces between Development, Product, Marketing, Operations, and other functions, and support stakeholders in implementing concrete improvements.
• Build sustainable internal capabilities & skills: Enable Leads and teams to facilitate selected routines themselves by providing practical formats, coaching, facilitation guidance, and reusable workshop templates.

• Strong practical knowledge of agile principles and frameworks, particularly Scrum
• Proven ability to facilitate sprint events, retrospectives, team workshops, and cross-functional working sessions in a distributed and international setting.
• Strong methodological toolkit for retrospectives, process improvement, conflict management, team development, root-cause analysis, and collaborative decision-making.
• Experience supporting software or digital product-development teams.
• Fundamental understanding of software-development processes, product discovery, release workflows, quality assurance, and technical dependencies.
• Ability to assess team and process effectiveness using both qualitative observations and relevant delivery or workflow data.
• Ability to work confidently with digital collaboration and facilitation tools such as Gitlab, Notion, Miro, Slack and Google Workspace.
• Professional fluency in English, both written and spoken. Fluency in German is a plus.

Nice-to-have

• Professional Scrum Master, Certified ScrumMaster, Agile Coach, Kanban, or comparable certification.
• Experience working in a rapidly growing start-up or scale-up.
• Experience with organizational development or change facilitation.
• Experience facilitating OKR processes, quarterly planning or portfolio prioritization.

Your Soft Skills

• Pragmatic and hands-on agility: You do not apply frameworks dogmatically. You understand their principles and adapt practices thoughtfully to the problem, team, and context.
• Constructive courage: You recognize uncomfortable dynamics and conflicts, unclear accountability, or ineffective routines and address them directly and respectfully.
• Low ego and high credibility: You build trust through ownership, consistency, competence, and useful interventions rather than through formal authority.
• Clarity and follow-through: You turn complex discussions into clear decisions, ownership, and actionable next steps-and ensure they are followed through.
• Adaptability and resilience: You can operate effectively in a fast-growing environment in which structures, priorities, and team constellations continue to grow quickly.
• Context sensitivity: You understand that a Development team, an Operations team, and a Marketing team require different working practices., * At least 2-3 years of relevant professional experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Master, Agile or Team Coach, or in a comparable role.
• Proven hands-on experience supporting agile software-development or digital product teams over an extended period.
• Demonstrated experience designing and facilitating retrospectives, workshops, and improvement processes independently in a remote setting.
• Practical experience working with several stakeholder groups, ideally including Development / Engineering, Product, and Operations.
• Experience in a start-up, scale-up, product organization, or similarly dynamic environment is preferred.
• Equivalent practical experience and a strong track record are more important than a specific academic qualification.

• Competitive salary and trust-based working hours.
• Private health insurance.
• Generous training budget.
• Extraordinary team events.
• Meal benefit.

Communication & trust:

• Open, honest and direct communication. Your ideas are welcome!
• A feedback meeting every quarter to help us grow together.
• We encourage innovation and are open to new ideas that push the boundaries.

Modern working:

• Everything you need for your daily work: MacBook, monitor, headphones and more.

Individual training:

• One training day per month and a generous training budget for your personal development.

Buddy program:

• An experienced team member will support you from day one to help you get started.

The team

• We are a colorful bunch from different nations and backgrounds. We don’t distinguish by religion, gender, age, marital status… For us, the focus is on what you can do!

Our values:

MAKE IT HAPPEN

• Drive results - Own the problem, the goal, and the outcome through self-organization and decisions backed by data
• Speak up with courage - Challenge ideas and raise issues directly when it matters
• Getting things done - Be pragmatic, keep momentum, and bring the energy
• Deliver quality impact - Ship solutions that move our mission and strategic goals forward

WIN TOGETHER

• Communicate openly and respectfully - Be transparent, assume positive intent, and set aside own ego when interacting with others
• Help others win - Proactively share knowledge, time, and strengths in an interdisciplinary set-up
• Work across cultures - Learn from others’ perspectives and actively refine own style for trust-based collaboration in a diverse team
• Bring team spirit - Create moments of joy and belonging that fuel big outcomes together

SHAPE THE FUTURE

• Experiment to learn - Run tests, measure outcomes, treat mistakes as an invitation to learn and adapt insights into action
• Spot opportunities - Stay close to customers and market trends to identify what’s next
• Build user-first innovation - Deliver trustworthy, data-driven solutions and services that set the bar
• Grow yourself - Challenge and reflect on the way you work, seek feedback, and keep developing your skills Sound like you? https://nextlottogmbh.teamtailor.com