The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers –– and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency. We are proud of the culture we have built. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.
So, if you are talented, driven, creative, and eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk!
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
The ideal candidate is strategic, data-driven, creative, and business savvy. They have the drive and ability to contribute to the process of discovering what will delight our clients and a proven interest in driving both back-end technical and front-end user experience projects with deep customer empathy.
The Trade Desk Product Team hires courageous, passionate PMs who set big goals and execute on them. We help you grow and challenge you with hard, meaningful work. We celebrate our successes and learn from our failures together. We value and develop strong leadership, asking our PMs to take on ambitious and often ambiguous projects that promise to extend our lead in the industry.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
The Trade Desk is dedicated to the mission of supporting and growing the Open Internet. In this role, you will play a key part in helping shape the future vision for omnichannel advertising at The Trade Desk.
You will own the vision, roadmap and execution for various products. This can include working on UI/UX experiences, API experiences, data science models, data engineering pipelines and more. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners in other organizations, while also displaying the ability to "show up senior" in frequent executive forums. You will work with stakeholders across our UX/UI, Data Partnerships, Data Science, and Engineering Teams helping think through trade-offs in workflow implementations, visualizations, model approaches, and customer impact. You will also need to build a deep customer relationship with our agency, brand, and publisher partners to make products a success.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:
- 7+ years of Product Management experience where you demonstrated a sustained track record of making significant contributions to impactful projects.
- Significant Product Management experience across diverse marketing channels and how they work together to drive performance both through UX and backend optimizations
- A strong understanding of key buyer activities such as planning, activation and measurement.
- Product Management experience within AdTech, including proficiency in AdTech auctions and a thorough understanding of DSPs, DMPs, CDPs, and Data Activation platforms.
- A sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful software projects.
- You have built complex products that take years of iterations to become great.
- Excellent communication/presentation skills both in large and small groups.
- Ability to solve complex, technical problems with creative solutions while managing tradeoffs.
- Excellent communication/presentation skills both in large and small groups.
- Entrepreneur -- you have a strong bias for action and use compelling, data-based arguments to convince others and generate progress with meaningful results.
- Durability and grit - sometimes solutions take creative thinking and multiple iterations while dependencies solidify. You try many different approaches to the right answer.
- Ability to write detailed specifications and vision documents that clearly articulate the ‘why’ behind the problem.
- Strong interest in what computing can do -- a passion for technology and how to apply that to problems of massive scale.
- Passion -- your work matters. Your features matter. You care and give your all.
- Collaborative -- the best PMs are not necessarily those with the best ideas, but those that ensure the right thing gets done.
- Selfless -- product management is about making sure the best work gets done by the team, and making sure they share in the credit.
- Empathy -- as a product manager you are the voice of the customer and need to represent them from a position of deep understanding.
The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. 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.
[LA JOBS ONLY] The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.
[SF JOBS ONLY] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC residents only: In accordance with CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC law, the range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as sales-based incentives and commissions. Plus, 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 and company match, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, well-being benefits, reimbursement for certain tuition expenses, parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year. Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.
Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave
At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is
$123,900—$227,200 USD
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to making our job application process accessible to everyone and to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you have a disability or medical condition and require an accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please contact us at [email protected]
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