Chief Technology Officer

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JR100270
** 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 United Health 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 Mar Tech 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 Mar Tech 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.
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* About the Role:

** Ovative is at an inflection point — building an AI-native agency model on top of EMRge, our established proprietary marketing intelligence platform, with the ambition to double the business over three years. As CTO, you will own the technology vision that makes that possible and lead the engineering organization that delivers it.

You will lead all of Ovative’s engineering capabilities: the teams building EMRge and the AI Operating System (AI OS) that connects our internal tools into a coordinated, agent-driven system. You will serve as a member of Ovative’s Executive Leadership Team — the senior-most technology leader in the company, accountable not just for technical direction but for engineering delivery, team health, and the technology reputation of the firm with clients and the market.

EMRge drives measurable business impact through a unified data foundation, actionable measurement, and business intelligence solutions — used by our team to deliver results and empower our clients with the data & insights they need to plan and grow their business. The AI OS is an integration and orchestration layer — connecting Claude, Glean, Click Up, Slack, Outlook, and others — that enables intelligent, multi-step automated workflows across the business.

This role demands both depth and breadth: executive leadership over an established engineering organization, hands-on architectural judgment to build something net-new, and the credibility to represent Ovative’s technology externally to clients, partners, and the industry.
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* Role Responsibilities:

**** Technology Vision & Strategy:
*** Own — not just translate — the technology vision for Ovative; set strategic direction that achieves near- and long-term business goals and convert it into a technology product roadmap in partnership with Product Management
* Oversee the architectural direction for both EMRge and the AI OS, ensuring systems are built to scale and adapt.
* Lead the evolution and enforcement of engineering standards across the organization: reliability, scalability, security, observability, CI/CD practices, and infrastructure-as-code — so deployments are repeatable, auditable, and low-risk.
* Represent Ovative’s technology vision externally: with clients, prospective clients, and industry forums — building credibility that supports business development and client retention.
** EMRge Platform Engineering:
*** Lead EMRge engineering — the Databricks data lake, platform services, client-facing capabilities, and infrastructure that power our core products — by directly leading the Engineering Senior Director to set direction, remove blockers, and hold the team accountable to a high bar.
* Partner with Product Management to align engineering capacity to highest-impact roadmap priorities; maintain SOC 2-compliant, enterprise-grade engineering practices.
** AI Operating System:
*** Lead the architecture and delivery of Ovative’s AI OS — the integration and orchestration layer…