Blend360 is hiring a 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