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
Required
10+ years in data or platform architecture, with at least 3 years on systems at significant scale
Deep experience with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or a comparable enterprise data platform
Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy in high-stakes client or executive contexts
Experience designing for privacy, compliance, or security constraints
Background in consulting delivery or embedded partner roles
Nice to Have
Clean room or federated data architecture experience
Embeddings or feature store work
Identity resolution or data monetization projects
AWS or cloud infrastructure design
DSP or SSP experience
Less Important
Familiarity with every tool on the stack (you’ll learn what you need)
Specific certifications or credentials
Individual contributor “rock star” energy — we care about collaborative problem-solving
The starting pay range for this role is $250,000 - $350,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, certifications, training, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range and determining factors for compensation are considered for each individual circumstance. BLEND360 offers a competitive benefits program designed to support the health and financial well-being of our team members and their families. Benefits vary by role and eligibility and may include medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, paid holidays, commuter benefits, flexible spending accounts, life and disability insurance, and employee assistance programs.