Director, Affiliate Marketing

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 six consecutive years on Star Tribune’s list of Top 150 Workplaces and four 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 Director, Affiliate & Influencer Marketing position is an opportunity for an experienced candidate to take the next step in a leadership role at a fast-growing company that has the highest standards for talent, fun, and client success. This role will lead our growing Affiliate & Influencer teams. The ideal candidate demonstrates phenomenal client management, inspiring team leadership, great critical thinking, and sophisticated understanding of the digital media landscape. Their role will play a pivotal role in helping Ovative build and drive new capabilities toward measuring and optimizing media to the true enterprise impact.

Responsibilities

• Team leadership and employee development:
  • Drive strategic channel capabilities forward, building channel differentiation and identifying growth opportunities
  • Nurture culture and inspire your team to reach individual and team goals, actively investing in their development
  • Lead team staffing strategy and help recruit, train and manage new Ovative team members
  • Partner effectively to bring channel capabilities and best practice to life as part of a broader integrated offering
  • Own team level oversight of financials, operations and tech
• Strategy & thought leadership:
  • Act as an expert advisor for program strategies by continually evolving Ovative’s approach to best practices, staying on top of emerging trends and representing strategic perspectives to clients and the industry
  • Lead forward-thinking strategies in partnership with your team, identifying testing or roadmap opportunities to advance client program sophistication and impact
  • Serve as a strategic voice in business development and pitch scenarios, demonstrating expertise and thought leadership to win new business
  • Lead strategic industry relationships in partnership with your team, nurturing positive and forward-leaning partnerships in the space
• Client relationship management:
  • Own, manage and grow the overall relationship and performance of some of Ovative Group’s largest clients
  • Collaborate effectively with senior client leaders on program strategy, identifying new ways to drive client business results
  • Effectively manage & grow client relationship and establish trust and credibility
  • Effectively influence client stakeholders to evolve strategies and measurement approach to drive enterprise impact
• Team Operations:
  • Be accountable for ensuring best in class practices and operations are adopted throughout the team
  • Ensure executional excellence, day-to-day management of programs and core program operations are delivered at the highest quality
  • Advise your team on planning, execution and results analysis
  • Lead the team toward scaled operations, anticipating proactive needs for a growing team
  • Partner effectively with internal teams to bring operational best practices to life
    
    
    

Requirements For This Role

• 12+ years of relevant experience within affiliate marketing or influencer marketing
• 5+ years of experience directly leading and coaching multiple team members
• Proven track record of success driving strong positive results
• Ability and desire to leverage data and analytics to drive channel strategies
• Strong communication skills and the ability to tell a story and influence others
• Passion for measurement and assessing how deeper insights tied to customer, incrementality and influence affect channel impact
  
  

Preferred:

• Direct responsibility for enterprise-level marketing programs
• Strong digital agency experience or digital lead on the client-side
  
  

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 Director positions, our compensation ranges from $177,130 to $216,492 which is inclusive of a 30% 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 three-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:

• Flexible paid vacation policy
• 401k match program
• Free parking and on-site fitness center with locker rooms
• 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!