Sr. Analyst, Project Management - EMRge Custom

Ovative; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office access MSP NYC CHI

Travel to Minneapolis HQ

Generous vacation policy

401k match

Top-tier health insurance

Fertility & parenting benefits

Phone stipend

Sabbatical program

Charitable giving program

Job summary

Ovative Group in Chicago is seeking a Sr. Analyst, Project Management for the EMRge Custom team. You will own intake, prioritization, and delivery across Custom MMM & Analytics, Innovation & Partnership, and Edge Builder Support.

You will partner with DS/DE directors, GTM, and client teams to translate business needs into actionable work while driving process improvements and clear communication.

Qualifications

• 2–3+ years of project/program management experience in tech.
• Experience coordinating across technical teams and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own intake and prioritization process for EMRge Custom.
• Prioritize work across multiple concurrent engagements.
• Translate requests into well-scoped work with clear acceptance criteria.
• Define timelines and manage delivery across stakeholders.
• Be primary point of contact for status and scope changes.
• Monitor capacity, risks, and blockers across DS/DE workstreams.
• Leverage AI tools to improve efficiency and reporting.
• Drive change management and maintain engagement documentation.

Skills

Project management

Program management

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile methods

Confluence/Jira

Communication

AI tools

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Databricks

BigQuery

Job description

About Ovative Group:

Ovative Group is an independent, full-funnel media, measurement, and creative firm. Leveraging our deep industry expertise, we help brands like Best Buy, Domino's, American Eagle, The Home Depot, Post, Disney, Tumi, Michael Kors, Boost Mobile, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and measurement programs. The result? Profitable growth that speaks for itself. At Ovative, we don't just track data, we redefine success. How do we do it? Our proprietary MarTech platform, EMRge helps businesses transform marketing into a driver of sustainable growth. Powered by Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), our differentiated approach to holistic media buying, planning, and measurement, EMRge is the first MarTech platform to measure businesses holistically. We're all about raising the bar every day, and it shows. Our work has been recognized by organizations like Digiday, Google, Inc. 5000, USA Today, and Search Engine Land.

About the Role:

EMRge Custom is a cross-functional Ovative team of Data Science (DS) and Data Engineering (DE) resources that delivers bespoke client work, innovation and platform partnerships, and consultative support for Edge Builders (our self-service builder role). The team exists to help Ovative respond nimbly to client and internal needs that fall outside the scope of standard EMRge product development and client delivery. As Technical Project Manager for EMRge Custom, you will own project management and intake coordination across all four of the team’s work areas — Custom MMM & Analytics, Innovation & Partnership, Team Maintenance, and Edge Builder Support. You are the connective tissue between Go to Market (GTM), DS and DE Tech Directors, Measurement & Technology Service (MTS) leaders, client account teams, and broader organizational stakeholders. You will ensure work moves from intake to delivery on time, on scope, and with the right people informed at every step. You will report to the Sr. Manager of EMRge Client Operations and partner day-to-day with the DS Tech Director, DE Tech Director, and where relevant the GTM team to translate business requirements into executable work. This is an execution-oriented role that requires strong adaptive organizational instincts, clear communication under ambiguity, confidence to manage prioritization decisions, and ability to drive organizational change of new processes across stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities of a Sr. Analyst, Project Management:

• Intake & Prioritization: Develop and Own the Intake Process: Build and manage the intake process for EMRge Custom, establishing a clear, structured way for client teams and Edge builders to submit requests, with defined criteria for how work is triaged, scoped, and sequenced across the team's four work areas. Build in partnership with Edge Builder Product Owner.
• Prioritize Work Across Client Engagements: Maintain a holistic view of all active and incoming contracted work, sequencing priorities across Custom MMM & Analytics, Innovation & Partnership, Team Maintenance, and Edge Builder Support, surfacing tradeoffs and capacity conflicts to leadership proactively.
• Translate Requests into Executable Work: Partner with DS and DE Tech Directors to convert incoming requests into well-scoped, clearly defined work items, including problem framing, acceptance conditions, and resource requirements, applying agile best practices to break work into discrete, deliverable increments that reduce ambiguity and enable technical resources to move quickly.
• Timeline & Delivery Management: Define and Manage Timelines: Collaborate with stakeholders to establish clear project timelines, ensuring work is reflected accurately across active engagements. Monitor project progress to keep client work on track, proactively managing scope changes with thorough communication to all stakeholders.
• Own Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders on timeline, status, and deliverables, communicating clearly and consistently across audiences.
• Manage Capacity and Risk: Maintain real-time visibility across DS and DE workstreams, proactively identifying resourcing constraints, scope risks, and blockers, and surfacing them to the DS and DE Tech Directors and leadership before they impact delivery.
• Leverage AI to Drive Operational Efficiency: Actively use AI tools to accelerate the operational demands of the role, including synthesizing project status across workstreams, drafting stakeholder communications, maintaining documentation, and surfacing patterns in intake and capacity data that inform prioritization decisions.
• Change Management & Documentation: Lead Change Management: Drive change management efforts for client-related processes, ensuring smooth transitions and clear communication to all affected parties across DS, DE, and stakeholder teams. Own Engagement Documentation: Document engagement scope, outputs, and maintenance requirements at the close of each engagement to support continuity and prevent undocumented technical debt from accumulating. Maintain Team Confluence: Maintain Confluence/JIRA documentation for EMRge Custom, keeping team-level process, operating model, and engagement records current and accessible to the broader organization.

Requirements:

2-3+ years of experience in project management, program management, or a related coordination role, with at least 1 years working directly alongside technical teams (Data Science, Data Engineering, or similar). Demonstrated experience managing intake, prioritization, and delivery tracking for technical work — including triaging requests, sequencing competing priorities, and maintaining backlog clarity in any project management or work management tool (e.g., Confluence, Jira, Clickup, or similar). Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience communicating project status, scope, and risk to both technical and non-technical audiences. Demonstrated ability to manage scope boundaries and make prioritization calls independently, without requiring escalation for routine decisions. Demonstrated ability to create and maintain clear, structured documentation across the project lifecycle — including scope definitions, status updates, engagement outputs, and process changes — ensuring information is accessible, accurate, and usable by technical and non-technical audiences alike. Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to synthesize complex technical work into clear, plain-language updates for clients and leadership. Demonstrated experience with or active curiosity toward AI tools, with a mindset toward applying them to improve the quality and efficiency of day-to-day work. Preferred Background in marketing measurement, media analytics, or adjacent fields (e.g., attribution, incrementality testing, or marketing mix modeling). Familiarity with data platforms such as Databricks, BigQuery, or similar environments — not at an implementation level, but sufficient to follow technical conversations and flag risks. Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams with competing priorities across DS and DE functions. Prior experience in a consulting or client services environment where stakeholder relationship management is central to the role. Comfort working in Kanban or iterative delivery environments where methodology, tooling, and process are simultaneously evolving. Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, JSM, Confluence) preferred, but not required.

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. 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 $75,000 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 ten 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.

Inclusive Environment:

Ovative is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can participate and thrive. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind, including on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Our policies reflect this commitment—for example, our medical leave benefits are inclusive of same-sex partners, ensuring equitable care and support for all families.

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
• Generous paid vacation policy
• 401k match program
• Top-note health insurance options, inclusive of same sex partners
• Family formation benefits including reimbursement options for fertility, pregnancy, and parenting needs
• Monthly stipend for your mobile phone and data plan
• Sabbatical program
• Charitable giving via our time and a financial match program
• Shenanigan’s Day

Conclusion

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.

OVATIVE GROUP - About

OVATIVE GROUP is an independent, full-funnel media, measurement, and creative firm. Leveraging our deep industry expertise, we help brands like Best Buy, Domino's, American Eagle, The Home Depot, Post, Disney, Tumi, Michael Kors, Boost Mobile, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and measurement programs. At Ovative, we don't just track data, we redefine success. How do we do it? Our proprietary MarTech platform, EMRge helps businesses transform marketing into a driver of sustainable growth. Powered by Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), our differentiated approach to holistic media buying, planning, and measurement, EMRge is the first MarTech platform to measure businesses holistically. We're all about raising the bar every day, and it shows. Our work has been recognized by organizations like Digiday, Google, Inc. 5000, USA Today, and Search Engine Land.