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:
Do you love finding new ways to tackle a client's problem? Are you a good listener who values empathy, integrity? Is your middle name ‘Grit’ and do you love collaboration, too? Do you enjoy developing relationships? Here at The Trade Desk, we're in search of Account Managers who are master relationship builders, strategic sellers and creative problem solvers to join our growing team.
What you'll do
- Own and grow a roster of key agency accounts ensuring long term partnerships and measurable business impact
- Demonstrate strong commercial acumen by identifying upsell opportunities, pitching new solutions, and driving revenue growth within accounts.
- Champion collaboration with Trading and Sales teams to rapidly onboard new customers and identify opportunities to expand existing accounts
- Become an expert on the use and best practices on The Trade Desk platform, and offer insights to clients on how to improve campaigns
- Provide continual training to clients as new features are added to The Trade Desk
- Work with Product Management to help define features and drive enhancements to The Trade Desk platform
- Help build the Client Services practice, by creating training materials, best practices, sales materials and customer facing guides
- Take accountability and initiatives for client outcomes, ensuring satisfaction, retention, and achievement of performance targets.
- Adopt a proactive and hand-son approach in solving client challenges, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring seamless execution of campaigns.
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s Degree with at least 4-5 years of online advertising experience and at least 2 years of client-facing experience
- Proven track record of growing accounts by forging a strong relationship with clients, understanding their objectives and recommending best strategies
- Ability to identify revenue opportunities within existing accounts, pitch new solutions persuasively, and drive incremental business growth.
- Expertise in working with RTB, DSPs, ad exchanges, aggregators, ad servers, and other optimization platforms
- Experience managing CPA, CPC, and CPM marketing campaigns
- Solid experience in Excel and MS Office, including pivot tables, chart-making, and manipulation of large data sets
- Outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
- Effective time management skills – ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
- You are proactive and are driven by curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning, while approaching every challenge with empathy and integrity
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 4-5 years of online advertising experience
- At least 2 years of client-facing experience
- Proven track record of growing and managing accounts
- Experience with RTB, DSPs, ad exchanges, aggregators, and ad servers
- Experience managing CPA, CPC, and CPM marketing campaigns
- Proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Office (pivot tables, charts, large data sets)
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and manage time effectively
- Proactive, curious, empathetic, and committed to continuous learning
The Trade Desk Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Trade Desk and has not been reviewed or approved by The Trade Desk.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare premiums are often paid in full for employees and dependents, reducing out-of-pocket costs. Coverage includes medical, dental, and vision alongside mental health and wellness support.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Packages commonly include new-hire stock grants, a generous Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and equity refreshers tied to performance. Feedback suggests equity meaningfully boosts total compensation alongside base pay and bonuses.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays, paid sick time, and sabbaticals are available. Paid parental leave and extensive family-planning support broaden time-off and caregiving coverage.
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What We Do
The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. Our mission is to transform media for the benefit of humankind. Our media-buying platform helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers — and sets a new standard for reach, accuracy, and transparency.
Why Work With Us
With up to 11 million queries per second and SLAs in the milliseconds, we’re tackling data and software challenges at massive scale. While we’re growing fast, investing in our value based company culture remains one of our top priorities. If you’re talented, driven, and hungry to bring something entirely new and wildly ambitious, let's talk.
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