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About Ovative Group

Ovative Group is an independent, full-funnel media, measurement, and creative firm. Leveraging our deep industry expertise, we help brands like BestBuy, Domino’s, American Eagle, The Home Depot, Post, Disney, Tumi, MichaelKors, BoostMobile, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and measurement programs. The result is profitable growth that speaks for itself.

At Ovative, we don’t just track data, we redefine success. Our proprietary MarTech 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 makes EMRge the first MarTech platform to measure business 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, USAToday, and Search EngineLand.

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 Chief Technology Officer, 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 (AIOS) 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 and insights they need to plan and grow their business. The AIOS is an integration and orchestration layer – connecting Claude, Glean, ClickUp, Slack, Outlook, and others – that enables intelligent, multi‑step automated workflows across the business.

Role Responsibilities

• Own – not just translate – the technology vision for Ovative; set strategic direction that achieves near‑ and long‑term business goals and translate it into a technology product roadmap in partnership with Product Management.
• Oversee the architectural direction for both EMRge and the AIOS, 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.
• 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 SOC2‑compliant, enterprise‑grade engineering practices.
• Lead the architecture and delivery of Ovative’s AIOS – the integration and orchestration layer connecting Claude, Glean, ClickUp, Slack, Outlook, and other tools into a system that automates meeting intelligence, action‑item execution, write‑back to operational systems, and knowledge management across the business.
• Own the security and governance framework for the AIOS – ensuring it meets enterprise standards from the start, in partnership with IT and Security.
• Drive build‑vs‑buy decisions and Ovative’s AI vendor and model portfolio; make pragmatic, business‑grounded choices that balance speed, cost, and long‑term flexibility.
• Establish LLMOps practices across all AI‑powered systems: output evaluation, cost attribution, observability, and model lifecycle management.
• Attract, develop, and retain a diverse, high‑performing team of engineers – currently 35 engineers across six product teams and a client delivery function – setting clear accountability, career paths, and a high bar for technical craft at every level.
• Manage AI infrastructure and LLM inference costs proactively, ensuring costs deliver impact.

Engineering Leadership

Own engineering hiring strategy and collaborate with HR to recruit top talent that aligns with Ovative’s culture and technical needs.