Data Scientist - Marketing & Customer Analytics

About Ovative Group:

Ovative Group is the premier independent media and measurement firm in the United States. We help change-makers, 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 Coach, Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman, 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, Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), is disrupting the industry and setting the gold standard for customer and marketing strategy, activation, and measurement.

Recognized eight consecutive years on Star Tribune’s list of Top 150 Workplaces and five 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.

About the Role:

The Ovative Group Data Scientist position 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 ideal candidate demonstrates great critical thinking, sophisticated understanding of the data 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.

As the Data Scientist, you will play a key role in:

• Developing advanced marketing measurement capabilities that unlock our company vision to transform the measure of marketing success. You will be at the forefront of developing and delivering differentiated marketing data science and measurement solutions that include maximizing profitable enterprise revenue and customer value for our clients.
• Partnering with driven, solution-minded experts, business leaders, analysts, and other data scientists at Ovative in engaging with clients and defining approaches and road maps for solutions to business problems.
• Working in a team with technology leaders, product owners and engineers to convert novel solutions to scalable new services and products at Ovative.
• Being a part of an inclusive culture that inspires and motivates the team and attracts new, diverse technical talent to the organization.

Responsibilities of a Data Scientist:

• Technical contributor in a high-performance data science & advanced analytics team working on ad hoc projects or seasoned products, responsible for owning your responsibilities and bringing in the executional excellence for them
• Drive value across multiple business verticals by contributing to the technical development and deployment of impactful and interpretable models related to, but not constrained to, Marketing Mix Models, Attribution, Customer Value, Causal Inference through Testing, Forecasting, and Causal Inference as related to Testing
• Communicating the results of your DS work
• Serve as the trusted DS Consult and expert to internal stakeholder teams

Requirements:

• 2-5 Years of data science/analytics experience; Less experience if education indicates a Masters in Data Science
• Robust programming experience with key languages like Python and/or R; Bonus: Multiple Language Expertise
• Bonus: Familiarity with Data Science tech stack and tools for Code versioning (Git), Containerization (Docker), Cloud (Google Cloud Platform)
• Effective communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to build data science models using business and marketing context, good principles of model building, interpretability and applicability
• Foundational understanding of statistics, including hypothesis testing, parametric & non-parametric distributions, etc.
• Familiarity with SQL
• An Entrepreneurial Mindset that leads problem solution with minimum viable mentality
• Preferred qualifications: Deploying machine learning models, Bayesian statistics, Prior focus on digital marketing analytics and/or working with non-technical stakeholders

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 $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!