A small piece of paper with numbers that have the power to change a life forever! Okay... let's replace the paper with an app and one person with 600,000+ monthly users. This is our business!
As our Agile Master, you enable our teams to collaborate effectively, continuously improve how they work, and remain focused as Next Lotto grows strongly in the upcoming years. You will strengthen agile product development within our Development department while helping teams across the company establish working practices that fit their individual context and to further develop our agile culture. By facilitating reflection, removing organizational friction, optimizing working processes and turning improvement opportunities into concrete action, you help us scale without losing speed, ownership, or cross-functional alignment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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
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/
