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Scrum Master roles on OPT are a strong fit for F-1 students with project management or software engineering backgrounds. Most positions fall under STEM OPT extension eligibility when tied to technical teams, giving you up to three years of work authorization to build experience before pursuing H-1B visa sponsorship.
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Get Access To All JobsPosition Title: Scrum Master II
Technical Team: Project Management Office
Classification: Exempt
Location: Logan, Utah
Travel: 10-15%
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS
Reporting to: Dev Manager
Positions supervised: None
JOB SUMMARY
The Scrum Master II coordinates the work of an Agile development team and oversees the software development lifecycle. This role involves planning and facilitating scrum activities such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives. The Scrum Master collaborates with clients or end users to understand business requirements and acts as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed. Additionally, they identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.
Ensure their team is able to organize and follow the scrum and ASI processes. Help ensure all their team members have taken the appropriate step on stories so their team is a well-oiled machine. Remove impediments, encourage the team to work only on tasks, and encourage Dev Manager to plan. Conduct retrospectives and schedule backlog grooming.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Plan and facilitate scrum activities, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives.
- Ensuring the breakdown of work. Force the breakdown of stories into substories, tasks, spikes, etc.
- Help build the schedule for deliverables. (Development timeline, PMO would be ultimately responsible for the schedule). Resource mapping/loading, what is our capacity? (Project is what we need to do, team should be focused on who needs to do what).
- Strategically identify if the schedule requires more resources than the team currently has. Resource balancing.
- Collaborate with clients or end users to understand business requirements.
- Act as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed.
- Identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.
- Work with team members on backlog and processes.
- Understand and remove impediments to the scrum process.
- Escalation of risk issues outside of the development group to other management levels. (if we fall behind during the sprint, we don’t just accept that, we try to push it and identify what can be done). Take what is going on and identify issues to the right groups that can do something about it.
ESSENTIAL EDUCATION, WORK EXPERIENCE, JOB SKILLS
- 3-6 Years of related experience engineering field.
- Bachelor’s degree in related technical field. Scrum Master Certification (CSM) preferred.
- Thorough understanding and mastery of Scrum processes.
- Experience with Agile Software development process.
- Ability to communicate effectively to engineers and management.
- Ability to foster teamwork.
- Ability to develop and mentor others.
- Performs work under minimal supervision, handling complex issues and problems, and referring only the most complex issues to higher-level staff.
- Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group.
- May act as a lead or first-level supervisor.
- Decision-making skills.
- Management skills.
- Customer/client orientation.
- Technical expertise.
- Computer skills.
- Project management skills.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to remain in a stationary position for significant portions of the workday including during meetings, presentations, and computer-based tasks.
- Ability to maintain professionalism and composure while meeting tight deadlines, during conflict, and while delivering presentations.
- Ability to communicate and exchange information clearly and effectively in high-level meetings and discussions.
- Capacity to analyze complex data, manage multiple concurrent projects, and make critical decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to frequently travel and work outside of standard business hours as required by operational needs.
Position Title: Scrum Master II
Technical Team: Project Management Office
Classification: Exempt
Location: Logan, Utah
Travel: 10-15%
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS
Reporting to: Dev Manager
Positions supervised: None
JOB SUMMARY
The Scrum Master II coordinates the work of an Agile development team and oversees the software development lifecycle. This role involves planning and facilitating scrum activities such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives. The Scrum Master collaborates with clients or end users to understand business requirements and acts as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed. Additionally, they identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.
Ensure their team is able to organize and follow the scrum and ASI processes. Help ensure all their team members have taken the appropriate step on stories so their team is a well-oiled machine. Remove impediments, encourage the team to work only on tasks, and encourage Dev Manager to plan. Conduct retrospectives and schedule backlog grooming.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Plan and facilitate scrum activities, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, board reviews, and retrospectives.
- Ensuring the breakdown of work. Force the breakdown of stories into substories, tasks, spikes, etc.
- Help build the schedule for deliverables. (Development timeline, PMO would be ultimately responsible for the schedule). Resource mapping/loading, what is our capacity? (Project is what we need to do, team should be focused on who needs to do what).
- Strategically identify if the schedule requires more resources than the team currently has. Resource balancing.
- Collaborate with clients or end users to understand business requirements.
- Act as a liaison between development teams and product management to ensure appropriate project processes are followed.
- Identify and resolve impediments that may slow development or prevent the team from meeting established goals or milestones.
- Work with team members on backlog and processes.
- Understand and remove impediments to the scrum process.
- Escalation of risk issues outside of the development group to other management levels. (if we fall behind during the sprint, we don’t just accept that, we try to push it and identify what can be done). Take what is going on and identify issues to the right groups that can do something about it.
ESSENTIAL EDUCATION, WORK EXPERIENCE, JOB SKILLS
- 3-6 Years of related experience engineering field.
- Bachelor’s degree in related technical field. Scrum Master Certification (CSM) preferred.
- Thorough understanding and mastery of Scrum processes.
- Experience with Agile Software development process.
- Ability to communicate effectively to engineers and management.
- Ability to foster teamwork.
- Ability to develop and mentor others.
- Performs work under minimal supervision, handling complex issues and problems, and referring only the most complex issues to higher-level staff.
- Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group.
- May act as a lead or first-level supervisor.
- Decision-making skills.
- Management skills.
- Customer/client orientation.
- Technical expertise.
- Computer skills.
- Project management skills.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to remain in a stationary position for significant portions of the workday including during meetings, presentations, and computer-based tasks.
- Ability to maintain professionalism and composure while meeting tight deadlines, during conflict, and while delivering presentations.
- Ability to communicate and exchange information clearly and effectively in high-level meetings and discussions.
- Capacity to analyze complex data, manage multiple concurrent projects, and make critical decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to frequently travel and work outside of standard business hours as required by operational needs.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship in Scrum Master
Target companies with established H-1B sponsorship track records
Mid-size and enterprise tech companies sponsor Scrum Masters for H-1B visa far more consistently than startups. Look for employers who have filed H-1B petitions for project management or agile coaching roles in prior years before accepting an offer.
Confirm your role qualifies as a STEM OPT job
Scrum Master positions qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension when the role is directly tied to a technical product team. Verify your job offer letter describes responsibilities involving software development lifecycle management, not just general office coordination.
Get certified before you apply
Hiring managers treat CSM or PSM I certification as a baseline filter for Scrum Master roles. Earning certification before your job search removes a common early-screen rejection reason and signals you are ready to contribute immediately without additional training overhead.
Address your OPT timeline proactively with recruiters
Bring up your OPT end date and STEM extension eligibility during the recruiter screening call, not after an offer. Employers who sponsor visas prefer candidates who understand their own timeline and can clearly explain the H-1B process without requiring a crash course.
Prioritize roles embedded in engineering or product teams
Scrum Masters working directly inside software engineering or product development teams are more defensible for specialty occupation classification, which matters for future H-1B petitions. Avoid roles where agile facilitation is peripheral to a non-technical business unit.
Leverage your technical degree when pitching yourself
Many Scrum Master candidates come from non-technical backgrounds. If your degree is in computer science, information systems, or engineering, lead with that. Employers sponsoring H-1B visas need to establish a degree requirement, and your background strengthens that case significantly.
Scrum Master OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Scrum Master jobs qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
They can, but it depends on how the role is classified. If your Scrum Master position is tied to a technical team working on software or engineering products and your degree is in a STEM field, DSOs generally approve the STEM OPT extension. Roles focused purely on non-technical business process management are a harder case. Confirm the classification with your DSO before accepting an offer.
How do I find Scrum Master employers who sponsor OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and filters job listings by visa sponsorship willingness, so you are not wasting applications on employers who will not consider OPT workers. Search for Scrum Master roles there to find companies that have already indicated they are open to sponsoring international candidates at various stages of the OPT and H-1B process.
Can I work as a Scrum Master on day-one OPT before my STEM extension is approved?
Yes. Your initial 12-month OPT EAD authorizes full-time employment as a Scrum Master as soon as it is valid. You do not need to wait for a STEM extension approval to start working. Apply for the STEM extension at least 90 days before your initial OPT expires so there is no gap in your work authorization while the extension is pending.
Will my computer science or engineering degree support a Scrum Master H-1B petition?
It strengthens the case but does not guarantee approval. USCIS evaluates whether the specific job requires a degree in a directly related field as a minimum requirement. Scrum Master roles tied to software development teams, with responsibilities like sprint planning, technical backlog refinement, and engineering team facilitation, are more likely to meet the specialty occupation standard than generalist project coordination roles.
What certifications matter most for Scrum Master OPT job applications?
The CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) from Scrum Alliance and PSM I (Professional Scrum Master) from Scrum.org are the two most recognized credentials. Either signals baseline competency to hiring managers. For roles in larger enterprises or regulated industries, a PMI-ACP or SAFe Agilist certification can differentiate you. Certification also helps demonstrate your professional development during OPT, which supports your employer's reporting requirements.