Product Owner, EMRge MMM

About the role

Ovative’s Modern MMM+ is our core marketing measurement product. As Product Owner for Modern MMM+, you will sit at the intersection of Data Science, Data Engineering, Client Delivery, and Client Teams — owning the backlog, shaping the delivery cadence, and translating complex modeling and measurement requirements into well-formed, executable work.

Responsibilities

• Translate program-level features and objectives into well-formed user stories with clear acceptance criteria that reflect business value and technical constraints — including modeling methodology decisions, pipeline changes, and tooling improvements.
• Work closely with Data Science and Data Engineers during iterations to clarify business and functional requirements and make timely decisions on scope, data inputs, and acceptance conditions.
• Own delivery-level tradeoff decisions (scope, sequencing, and technical constraints) — challenging priorities rather than simply executing against them, and making the call without escalating to the PM when not required.
• Accept or reject completed stories based on acceptance criteria and the team’s Definition of Done, ensuring that model outputs, pipeline deliverables, and tooling features truly meet user needs.
• Translate technical work into business impact — articulating why a modeling, pipeline, or tooling decision matters in terms of client outcomes, efficiency, or product quality, not just technical completeness.
• Ensure alignment between team deliverables and program-level objectives and roadmap, raising risks and tradeoffs when needed.
• Collaborate daily with the Scrum Lead to remove blockers, refine plans, and improve the team’s flow and ways of working.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, or a related role, with at least 2 years focused on data, analytics, or measurement products.
• Proven success owning a technical product backlog and leading delivery in a SAFe or similar scaled agile environment, including sprint planning, refinement, cross-team dependency management, and PI planning.
• Demonstrated ability to make and communicate independent prioritization decisions — including trade-offs under pressure — without requiring PM escalation for routine decisions.
• Demonstrated experience working closely with Data Science and Data Engineering teams on complex modeling or pipeline products — comfortable discussing data pipelines, model inputs/outputs, and schema-level decisions without requiring deep implementation expertise.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, including comfort with cost–benefit analysis, prioritization frameworks, and scope negotiation under capacity constraints.
• Ability to translate technical work into clear business impact — articulating the “why it matters” for engineering-driven decisions in terms stakeholders and clients can act on.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities, including executive-level communication and the ability to translate technical modeling or pipeline concepts into clear business value.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and align cross-functional teams across DS, DE, and client delivery functions.

Qualifications

• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira) and strong documentation instincts; familiarity with JSM or operational request management tooling a plus.
• Preferred background in marketing measurement, media analytics, or adjacent fields (e.g., attribution, incrementality testing, marketing mix modeling, or media planning).
• Familiarity with Bayesian modeling concepts — including priors, ROAS, diminishing returns, and model calibration — at a conceptual, not implementation, level sufficient to evaluate feasibility and write acceptance criteria.
• Experience with data platforms and pipeline tooling such as BigQuery, Dagster, Databricks, or similar environments.
• Prior exposure to product configurability frameworks, feature flag taxonomy design, or tiered offering management across client segments.
• Comfort working in environments where methodology, tooling, and process are simultaneously evolving, with a bias toward structured documentation and decision anchors.
• Experience conducting or facilitating user research, discovery sessions, or shadowing to ground product decisions in observed user behavior.

Benefits

• 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.
• Benefits: 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.
• 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 teamsGenerous paid vacation policy 401k match program Top-notch 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