Engineering Manager

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.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to join our rapidly growing product and engineering development team. Our company specializes in enterprise-level media measurement and optimization across various industries. In this role, you will take a leadership position within a cross-functional team responsible for creating, optimizing, and maintaining scalable software and data solutions to enhance performance, stability, and scalability. You will play a pivotal role in guiding the team and working closely with internal and client stakeholders throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in iterative development practices, a strong focus on building testable solutions, and both conceptual and pragmatic problem-solving skills. You actively leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve velocity and quality, and you help your team adopt these practices effectively. Your outstanding attention to detail and strong written and oral communication skills will enable you to work directly with business users, understanding their objectives and translating them into technical requirements.

As a valuable team member, you will have the opportunity to mentor junior team members, contribute to innovative ideas, and drive the adoption of cutting-edge technologies within the team and foster your own professional growth.

• Partner in sprint and interval planning with product and technical leaders to align goals, scope, timing, dependencies, and delivery readiness.
• Support backlog refinement by helping ensure work entering delivery is clear, ready, and sized appropriately.
• Lead the team’s core delivery ceremonies and own the team’s delivery rhythm, surfacing blockers, tradeoffs, and replanning needs early to keep work moving.
• Use team capacity, velocity, and delivery patterns to set realistic commitments and improve the team’s delivery system over time.
• Mentor and coach engineering team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, growth, and collaboration.
• Provide clear expectations, regular feedback, and consistent support through 1:1s and day-to-day leadership.
• Create stretch opportunities that help team members grow in ownership, versatility, and resilience while aligning to team and business needs.
• Foster a culture of teamwork and technical excellence, creating an environment where team members are inspired to achieve their best.
• Drive adherence to strong engineering practices across code quality, documentation, testing, maintainability, and technical health, ensuring the team consistently delivers high-quality, reliable software in partnership with QA.
• Partner directly with Product Managers, Product Owners, and stakeholders to understand goals, clarify requirements, and translate work into actionable technical direction for the team.
• Represent the team in cross-team discussions, helping surface dependencies, risks, and decisions needed to keep work moving.
• Advocate for the team within the organization, ensuring the team’s needs, constraints, and perspectives are understood in the right forums.
• Communicate status, risks, and key decisions…