Sr. Analyst, Project Management - EMRge Custom

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 United Health 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 Mar Tech 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 Mar Tech 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 work streams, proactively identifying resourcing constraints, scope…