# Hybrid Scrum Master & Product Owner **Company:** [Kaufman Rossin](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/8TBKmHX36Qd7hzE85YUKxW.md) **Location:** Bengaluru, India **Workplace:** hybrid **Employment type:** Full-time **Department:** Information Technology [Apply for this job](http://jobs.workable.com/view/487492a8-021f-4122-8b71-0a034a9b5c7a) ## Description **Why We Stand Out** Seeking a new challenge where your professional and personal aspirations are not only possible but supported? Kaufman Rossin might be just the place for you!  Kaufman Rossin Professional Services Private Limited’s (the “Company”) offices are located in the World Trade Center (WTC) in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and at Udyog Vihar, in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.  The Bangalore office provides a range of services, including risk management, corporate governance, tax, assurance, and family office services. Out of the Gurgaon office, we render highly specialized back-office alternative investment services for global hedge funds and related fund types. As one of the top accounting firms in the US, our foundation is “people first”. In the words of James Kaufman, one of our founders, “We prioritize our people, their development, and their well-being. Our values are translated into action every day."  Kaufman Rossin, headquartered in Miami, Florida has been celebrated as the Best Place to Work in South Florida more than a dozen times. The firm has grown to over 700 employees, with offices spanning the tri-county area and sister entities, Kaufman Rossin Wealth and Kaufman Rossin Alternative Investment Services.  The Firm is ranked 49th among the top 100 firms in the US by Inside Public Accounting 2023. Internationally, the Firm has offices in Bangalore and Haryana in India and the Ivory Coast in Africa. **Think you have what it takes?** This is a single blended position based in Bengaluru within Kaufman Rossin's internal Information Technology department. One person owns both Scrum Master and Product Owner/Business Analyst functions for internal IT initiatives. The role partners directly with US-based IT stakeholders as an equal contributor, proactively driving requirements conversations and jointly defining solutions while facilitating agile ceremonies and coaching the Bengaluru delivery team. ## Requirements **How You’ll Contribute:** **Product Owner Responsibilities** - Own and maintain the internal IT product backlog, ensuring every Epic, Feature, Story, and Task is well-defined, prioritized, and sprint-ready. - Own the work-item hierarchy: Epics to Features to user stories to tasks, with clear acceptance criteria. - Partner with US-based IT stakeholders as a peer to drive requirements, challenge assumptions, and co-define solutions. - Lead backlog refinement with the Bengaluru engineering and delivery teams **Business Analysis Responsibilities** - Jointly lead discovery and requirements sessions with internal US IT stakeholders, actively driving conversations rather than only documenting them. - Produce BRDs, functional specifications, process-flow diagrams, and acceptance criteria, collaboratively reviewed with US counterparts. - Own requirements traceability so every delivered feature connects to a documented internal business or technology requirement. - Translate complex internal technology, automation, integration, infrastructure, security, and operational workflows into structured user stories. **Scrum Master Responsibilities** - Facilitate sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives across internal IT initiatives. - Provide hands-on Jira and Azure DevOps administration, including boards, workflows, hierarchy, sprint setup, automation, and reporting. - Remove impediments, protect sprint integrity, track and report delivery metrics. - Drive continuous improvement and coach the Bengaluru team on agile principles and self-organization **Stakeholder Partnership** - Engage US IT leaders, internal product owners, technical leads, and business-system stakeholders as a peer; proactively initiate requirements conversations and propose solutions. - Build trusted relationships across internal IT and with the departments supported by IT, developing genuine knowledge of KR's systems and operating environment. - Prepare and deliver structured status updates, backlog reviews, sprint metrics, and requirement walkthroughs for US audiences. - Coordinate across internal IT workstreams while maintaining clear ownership, priorities, dependencies, and escalation paths. **What Skills You’ll Bring:** - 4+ years of Scrum Master, Product Owner, and/or Business Analyst experience in agile delivery, including 2+ years in a blended or dual-capacity role. - SAFe certification - SAFe Agilist, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, or SAFe Scrum Master - is mandatory. - Hands-on Jira and Azure DevOps experience, including board configuration, work-item hierarchy, sprint setup, workflow automation, and reporting. - Proven business-analysis skills in process mapping, requirements traceability, use-case documentation, acceptance criteria, and stakeholder facilitation. - Experience working with distributed delivery teams and stakeholders across US and India time zones. - Excellent written and spoken English for stakeholder communication, technical documentation, presentations, and vendor interactions. **Success In the Role** Success means establishing a reliable, transparent delivery structure for internal IT: a prioritized and sprint-ready backlog, well-run agile ceremonies, traceable requirements, clear delivery metrics, timely escalation of impediments, and trusted working relationships between US stakeholders and the Bengaluru delivery team ## Benefits - Work-Life Balance - People First Company - Hybrid work policy - Working directly with peers in the US _**We embrace authenticity.**_ _Kaufman Rossin is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a culture that reflects the diversity of our firm and clients. We encourage understanding, acceptance, and celebration among all people. That includes lifestyle, education, experience, race, ethnicity, age, religion, physical ability, sexual orientation, and gender identity._ _**Differences make unique varieties.**_