Sr. Manager, Experience Design - EMRge
Apply NowCompany: Ovative Group
Location: Minneapolis, MN 55407
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 EMRge:
EMRge is Ovative's cutting-edge MarTech platform that powers smarter marketing planning, buying, measurement, and optimization. Our products help marketing experts make better, faster decisions by combining powerful models with intuitive tools. Designers on the EMRge team get to tackle rich, complex UX challenges-from visualizing multi-KPI forecasts to designing media budget allocation tools-all while partnering with the sharpest marketers, analysts, and developers in the business.
About the Role:
Ovative is hiring a Senior Manager, Experience Design to lead the evolution of our EMRge platform-Ovative's proprietary MarTech product suite. This role will be responsible for driving exceptional, user-centered experiences across new and existing applications that span the end-to-end marketing planning, buying, and measurement lifecycle.
As a key leader on the EMRge team, you will shape how marketers interact with a sophisticated suite of tools-bringing simplicity, clarity, and delight to the complex. You'll lead design discovery and delivery efforts across multiple product capabilities, partner with Product and Engineering leaders, and mentor a growing design team. Your leadership will not only elevate the craft of design but also ensure that our user experience is a true differentiator in the marketplace.
Responsibilities of a Sr. Manager, Experience Design:
Qualifications:
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. Manager positions, our compensation ranges from $111,000 to $186,000, which is inclusive of a 25% 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:
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!
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 EMRge:
EMRge is Ovative's cutting-edge MarTech platform that powers smarter marketing planning, buying, measurement, and optimization. Our products help marketing experts make better, faster decisions by combining powerful models with intuitive tools. Designers on the EMRge team get to tackle rich, complex UX challenges-from visualizing multi-KPI forecasts to designing media budget allocation tools-all while partnering with the sharpest marketers, analysts, and developers in the business.
About the Role:
Ovative is hiring a Senior Manager, Experience Design to lead the evolution of our EMRge platform-Ovative's proprietary MarTech product suite. This role will be responsible for driving exceptional, user-centered experiences across new and existing applications that span the end-to-end marketing planning, buying, and measurement lifecycle.
As a key leader on the EMRge team, you will shape how marketers interact with a sophisticated suite of tools-bringing simplicity, clarity, and delight to the complex. You'll lead design discovery and delivery efforts across multiple product capabilities, partner with Product and Engineering leaders, and mentor a growing design team. Your leadership will not only elevate the craft of design but also ensure that our user experience is a true differentiator in the marketplace.
Responsibilities of a Sr. Manager, Experience Design:
- Lead UX Strategy & Execution: Champion a holistic, user-centric experience across EMRge applications (e.g. dashboards, scenario planning and budgeting tools, media activation and QA interfaces, developer interfaces, etc.)
- Design Leadership: Define and evangelize design principles, patterns, and systems that create consistency across a modular product ecosystem.
- Team Management: Directly manage and coach a Manager-level Experience Designer, with future opportunity to grow the team.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Data Scientists to turn ambiguous business goals into intuitive, scalable user experiences.
- Research & Discovery: Lead generative and evaluative research with internal users and clients to uncover needs, validate concepts, and identify friction points.
- Design Execution: Roll up your sleeves to create UX artifacts-journey maps, flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes-when needed to push work forward.
- Roadmap Influence: Use a combination of user feedback, usability insights, and industry best practices to proactively inform product strategy and roadmap prioritization across EMRge
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in UX, product design, or service design roles in software development environments
- 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring design talent
- Strong portfolio demonstrating systems-level thinking and elegant solutions for complex workflows or data-rich platforms
- Mastery in user research techniques, design strategy, interaction design, and visual/UI design principles
- Expert proficiency in Figma (design systems, prototyping, component libraries)
- Comfortable using design collaboration and delivery tools such as FigJam, Miro, Jira, Confluence, and user testing platforms
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills to influence stakeholders and leadership
- Experience owning UAT and driving structured feedback cycles into design updates and platform consistency
- Experience designing for B2B SaaS, analytics platforms, or enterprise tools is a plus
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. Manager positions, our compensation ranges from $111,000 to $186,000, which is inclusive of a 25% 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!