About Ovative Group:
Ovative Group is the premier independent media and measurement firm in the United States. We help trailblazers in fast-growing, customer-centric organizations across industries reinvent their marketing and measurement programs. We leverage our media, measurement, and consulting capabilities to help brands like Domino’s, Facebook, The Home Depot, CVS, Disney, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and marketing programs. Our proprietary approach to measuring and optimizing marketing investment decisions,â¯Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR),â¯is disrupting the industry and setting the gold standard for customer and marketing strategy, activation, and measurement.â¯
Recognizedâ¯eightâ¯consecutive years on Star Tribune’s list of Top 150 Workplaces andâ¯fiveâ¯years on Inc. 5000’s list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, we pride ourselves in always overdelivering for our clients, our teams, and our communities.â¯â¯â¯
About the Role:
The Ovative Group’s Data and Software Engineer role on the Strategic Projects team is an opportunity to take your next career step at a fast-growing company that has the highest standards for talent, fun, and client success. The Strategic Projects team supports direct consultative work for clients and acts as the internal proving ground for pre-product ideas. The ideal candidate demonstrates great critical thinking, sophisticated understanding of the data engineering and science landscape, familiarity with the marketing ecosystem and phenomenal communication skills. They are excited to play a pivotal role in helping Ovative continue our journey towards measuring and optimizing against the true enterprise impact of marketing dollars, and ultimately unlocking powerful business results for our clients.
In this role, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional team responsible for creating, optimizing, and maintaining data solutions that are generalizable, repeatable and scalable. You will work under the guidance of experienced team of data scientists and engineers and closely collaborate with business stakeholders throughout the entire data lifecycle, from ingestion to crafting processed data sets for reporting, analytical and modeling use. The team navigates ambiguity, asks lots of questions, learns and executes quickly in a supportive, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities of a Data and Software Engineer - Strategic Projects:
- Technical contributor in a high-performance data engineering, science & advanced analytics team working on ad hoc projects or seasoned products, responsible for owning your tasks and bringing in the executional excellence for them
- Drive value against multiple verticals by assisting in designing, developing, testing, and deploying data solutions that align with business and technical requirements related to, but not constrained to, Marketing Mix Models, Attribution, Customer Value and Segmentation, Forecasting, and Causal Inference as related to testing
- Lead or assist with discovery of the state of client’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) or advertising data to enable marketing measurement related reporting, analytics or modeling
- Work with data scientists on data modeling and feature engineering for Machine and Statistical Learning Models
- Identify opportunities for automation with a focus on the timely and quality execution in client projects
- Collaborate with your team to support translating and documenting business goals and user requirements into detailed, actionable technical requirements
- Contribute to the creation and maintenance of robust, impactful strategic measurement capabilities for the company
- Provide technical assistance to teammates as needed, and grow collective team expertise
- Follow established software, security and product engineering best practices, including code quality, documentation, deployment, and testing
- Explore new technologies and tools under guidance of security, teams to enhance marketing data solutions
- Troubleshoot data quality or completeness issues with support from senior team members as needed
Requirements:
- 3+ years of relevant data engineering development experience
- Proficient working with ETL/ELT tooling for large data sets (e.g., Airbyte)
- Proficient utilizing SQL, Python, and command line
Preferred:
- Familiarity with one or more of these: cloud-based platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, or Azure), code versioning tools like GitHub, data pipeline tools (e.g. dbt, Dagster, or Airflow), data warehouses and big data tools (e.g. BigQuery and Databricks)
- Familiarity with agile product and project management tools like JIRA and Confluence
- Experience working with APIs for data retrieval and/or a tool like Airbyte
- Experience creating data/table architecture
- Experience implementing QA processes and QA automation
- Experience integrating data models within software
- Experience working with marketing, analytics and customer data
Pay Transparency
At Ovative, we offer a transparent view into three core components of your total compensation package: Base Salary, Annual Bonus, and Benefits. The salary range for this position below is inclusive of an annual bonus.â¯Actual offers are made with consideration for relevant experience and anticipated impact. Additional benefits information is provided below.
For our Sr. Analyst positions, our compensation ranges from $62,000 to $93,000, which is inclusive of a 15% bonus.
Benefits of Working at Ovative Group
We provide strong, competitive, holistic benefits that understand the importance of your life inside and out of work.
Culture:
Culture matters and we’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace for eight years running because of it. We demand trust and transparency from each other. We believe in doing the hard and complicated work others put off. We’re open in communication and floor plan. We’re flat – our interns sit next to VPs, our analysts work closely with senior leaders, and our CEO interacts with every single person daily. Put together, these elements help foster an environment where smart people can support each other in performing to their highest potential.
Compensation and Insurance:
We strive to hire and retain the best talent. Paying fair, competitive compensation, with a large bonus incentive, and phenomenal health insurance is an important part of this mix.
We’re rewarded fairly and when the company performs well, we all benefit.
Tangible amenities we enjoy:
- Access to all office spaces in MSP, NYC, and CHI
- Frequent, paid travel to our Minneapolis headquarters for company events, team events, and in-person collaboration with teams.
- Flexible paid vacation policy
- 401k match program
- Top-notch health insurance options
- Monthly stipend for your mobile phone and data plan
- Sabbatical program
- Charitable giving via our time and a financial match program
- Shenanigan’s Day
Working at Ovative won’t be easy, but if you like getting your hands dirty, driving results, and being surrounded by the best talent, it’ll be the most rewarding job you’ll ever have. If you think you can make us better, we want to hear from you!
