Salesforce Scrum Master
Summary
An 8+ years experienced Scrum Master/Project Manager leads Agile delivery across enterprise Salesforce programs, running ceremonies, Scrum of Scrums, and cross-team dependency management while stepping into PM duties as needed. Requires strong Salesforce platform knowledge (Admin, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud) and Jira/Confluence, without hands-on development.
- Facilitate Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Scrum of Scrums.
- Drive Agile ceremonies across multiple Salesforce teams and ensure effective adoption of Agile/Scrum principles.
- Work closely with Product Owners, Salesforce Architects, Tech Leads, Developers, QA, Admins, BAs and other stakeholders.
- Identify and remove impediments, blockers, dependencies and delivery risks.
- Track sprint progress, velocity, capacity, burndown/burn-up, commitments and overall delivery health.
- Support teams in improving estimation, sprint planning, predictability, quality and delivery efficiency.
- Promote continuous improvement and help teams become mature and self-organizing.
- Facilitate Scrum of Scrums for large enterprise Salesforce programs involving multiple Agile teams.
- Identify and manage cross-team dependencies across Salesforce workstreams.
- Coordinate dependencies between Development, QA, Architecture, Integration, DevOps, Business and Release teams.
- Identify delivery risks early and ensure appropriate mitigation and escalation plans are established.
- Maintain dependency trackers and ensure timely resolution of cross-team blockers.
- Take ownership of Project Management activities when required.
- Support planning and execution of Salesforce projects from initiation through deployment and stabilization.
- Manage scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, milestones and delivery commitments.
- Maintain project plans, RAID logs, action trackers, dependency trackers and governance reports.
- Coordinate with client stakeholders and provide regular updates on project progress, risks, issues and upcoming milestones.
- Escalate critical delivery issues and drive them toward resolution.
- Ensure project documentation, governance, reporting and communication are maintained effectively.
- Maintain strong practical understanding of the Salesforce ecosystem and platform fundamentals.
- Understand Salesforce Administration concepts, Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
- Understand Salesforce objects, data models, security and sharing concepts.
- Understand Profiles, Permission Sets, Roles and Sharing.
- Understand Salesforce Flows and automation concepts.
- Understand Salesforce Reports and Dashboards.
- Understand Salesforce releases, deployments, environments and sandbox strategies.
- Maintain conceptual knowledge of Change Sets and Metadata deployments.
- Understand Salesforce integrations and DevOps/CI/CD concepts.
- Understand Salesforce testing, release management, defect management and production support processes.
- Communicate effectively with Salesforce technical teams without requiring hands-on development expertise.
- Support Salesforce release planning and coordinate activities across multiple releases and deployments.
- Coordinate Development, QA, UAT, deployment and production validation activities.
- Track release dependencies, risks, defects and delivery commitments.
- Work with Salesforce DevOps and technical teams to ensure release readiness.
- Support post-release stabilization and production issue tracking.
- Work with large enterprise clients and geographically distributed teams.
- Coordinate multiple Scrum teams working on the same Salesforce program.
- Manage communication across different time zones and regions.
- Coordinate with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, QA, Business Analysts and senior leadership.
- Operate effectively within complex enterprise governance environments.
- Manage competing priorities across multiple Salesforce workstreams.
- Track and report Agile metrics including velocity, sprint predictability, throughput, cycle time and burndown.
- Prepare delivery dashboards, status reports and governance updates.
- Maintain RAID logs, action trackers, dependency reports and project documentation.
- Support Agile maturity and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide clear visibility into delivery progress, risks, dependencies and overall program health.
- Act as a key communication point between delivery teams and client stakeholders.
- Communicate complex technical and delivery topics in a clear business-oriented manner.
- Facilitate difficult conversations, escalations, conflicts and competing priorities.
- Build strong relationships with enterprise clients, business stakeholders and delivery teams.
- Provide regular updates to senior stakeholders on project health, risks and delivery commitments.
- 8+ years of overall experience with strong experience as a Scrum Master in Salesforce environments.
- Strong experience working within the Salesforce ecosystem.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce Administration concepts.
- Good understanding of Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and Scrum of Scrums.
- Experience coordinating multiple Scrum teams and large Salesforce programs.
- Strong dependency, risk, issue and escalation management skills.
- Experience with Salesforce release and delivery processes.
- Strong experience with Jira, Confluence and Agile delivery tools.
- Ability to understand Salesforce technical discussions, configurations, integrations, releases and DevOps processes.
- Strong client-facing and stakeholder management experience.
- Salesforce ecosystem experience.
- Salesforce Administration knowledge.
- Salesforce Sales Cloud.
- Salesforce Service Cloud.
- Scrum Master experience.
- Scrum of Scrums.
- Enterprise Agile delivery.
- Cross-team dependency management.
- Risk and issue management.
- Salesforce release management.
- Stakeholder management.
- Jira.
- Confluence.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills.
- Ability to take on Project Manager responsibilities when required.
- Salesforce Certified Administrator.
- Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud.
- Salesforce DevOps and CI/CD knowledge.
- Copado.
- AutoRABIT.
- Gearset.
- Jenkins.
- Git/GitHub.
- Azure DevOps.
- ServiceNow or similar ITSM platforms.
- SAFe Agile experience.
- Project planning and reporting tools.
- Experience working with global distributed teams.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) / Professional Scrum Master (PSM) – Preferred.
- Salesforce Certified Administrator – Preferred.
- SAFe Certification – Good to have.
- PMP / PRINCE2 – Good to have.
- Other Salesforce certifications – Added advantage.
- Strong Salesforce focus rather than being a generic Scrum Master.
- Strong Agile delivery and enterprise governance mindset.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong facilitation and presentation capabilities.
- Proactive approach to identifying risks, blockers and dependencies.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Technically aware of Salesforce Administration and platform concepts.
- Ability to switch effectively between Scrum Master and Project Manager responsibilities.
- Strong planning, organization, reporting and execution skills.
- Comfortable working with multiple enterprise tools and processes.
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently in a client-facing environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Comfortable working with large, distributed and cross-functional teams.