The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more.
Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.
The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a driven Senior-level Product Manager who learns fast, who is humble and values teamwork; who is hungry and believes they can make our customers’ world a better place. The ideal candidate will be technical, data driven, creative, and business savvy. They will be growth oriented and able to strive for product‑market fit with their teams. The kind of person who joins The Trade Desk Product Team is fearless, courageous, passionate and willing to dream big and then execute on it. We are committed to helping you grow, challenging you with hard, meaningful work and celebrating our successes and failures together. Yes, we do fail at times because we believe risk is part of making big bets. So we take the risks and learn from them. We also value strong leadership, asking our PMs to take on large, ambitious and often ambiguous projects that can help extend our lead in the industry.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
- Define the product strategy and roadmap for the next generation of audience and insights tools.
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for insights and audience products.
- Work closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Data Science, and Business teams – helping to align on strategy and think through tradeoffs and customer impact.
- Gather customer requirements, design prototypes, prioritize and scope releases that represent customers’ needs, and then work with engineering to bring those products to life and iterate.
- Build the vision and strategy for The Trade Desk’s suite of audience products that help advertisers better understand their consumers through insights and reach them effectively through better targeting, improving performance and growing their brand. This work increasingly relies on Agentic‑AI workflows to identify and reach the highest value consumers.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
- Experience building complex products that take years of iterations to become great.
- Proven background using data to make decisions, identify opportunities and iterate on products to achieve desired outcomes. A background in data science, analytics, or engineering is a plus.
- 5+ years of combined experience in Product Management with an academic or professional background in math, statistics, or data science.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in both large and small groups.
- A sustained track record of making significant, self‑directed, and end‑to‑end contributions to large and impactful software projects.
- Ability to solve complex technical problems with creative solutions while managing tradeoffs.
- Ability to write detailed specifications that clearly articulate the reasons behind the problem.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid if a candidate is hired without an agreement. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. . Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
In accordance with US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. All employees may be eligible to become shareholders through stock‑based compensation grants awarded based on performance. Expected benefits for this role include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents, retirement benefits such as a 401k plan with company match, short and long‑term disability coverage, basic life insurance, well‑being benefits, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, vacation time for full‑time employees up to 120 hours in the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and about 13 paid holidays per year. Employees can purchase stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package.
Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock‑based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave.
Base salary range for this role is $124,900–$228,900 USD.
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