CTO/Senior Architect

You’re joining a strategic initiative to help a major media and technology company build a new behavioral intelligence platform from the ground up. This is an embedded consulting role, not a traditional engagement. You’ll be shaping the technical foundation of a commercial unit that leverages large-scale behavioral data through AI and advanced data architecture. 

Your role is to serve as the technical authority — making platform decisions, representing them to client stakeholders, and guiding the team through the complexity of data architecture, privacy-preserving systems, and multi-tenant infrastructure design. You’ll report to Blend’s Chief Solutions Officer while working directly within the delivery team, with regular visibility to the client’s executive leadership. 

What You’ll Own 

Platform Architecture & Decisions 

• Define and validate the technical blueprint across cloud data warehouse, clean room infrastructure, embedding compute, and privacy controls 

• Own the data modeling strategy for large-scale behavioral signals across multiple data sources and device types 

• Design the embeddings architecture and feature store supporting advertising, commerce, and AI use cases 

• Guide clean room design and ensure compliance with applicable privacy frameworks 

Technical Leadership & Unblocking 

• Identify and resolve critical path blockers across infrastructure, integrations, and identity resolution 

• Pressure-test technical proposals against real-world scale and operational complexity 

• Bridge between Blend’s engineering and data science teams and the client’s senior technical stakeholders 

Executive Presence & GTM Alignment 

• Participate in regular leadership touchpoints with the client’s commercial and product leadership 

• Translate technical capabilities into commercially relevant differentiation 

• Ensure the technical roadmap aligns with go-to-market milestones 

• Serve as a credible technical voice in early client and partner conversations 

Who You Are: 

Technical Depth 

• Enterprise data platforms (Snowflake, AWS, or equivalent) 

• Real-time and batch data architecture 

• ML/AI systems and embeddings infrastructure 

• Data privacy frameworks and compliance-by-design approaches 

• Clean rooms, DSPs, and SSPs 

Executive Presence & Communication 

• You’ve worked directly with CTO-level stakeholders — not through layers 

• You move comfortably between technical depth and business context 

• You articulate architectural tradeoffs clearly and in terms of business impact 

• You’re comfortable in high-stakes client or investor settings 

Problem-Solving Orientation 

• You ask hard questions about scale, cost, compliance, and risk before committing to approaches 

• You hold opinions but update them when presented with better information 

• You see your role as unblocking the team, not bottlenecking it 

Collaborative Mindset 

• You’ve worked in embedded delivery or partner roles 

• You don’t need to own everything to drive impact 

• You value getting to the right answer over being the one with the answer

Function: Marketing
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level