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
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’re talented, driven, creative, and hungry to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk!
What we do
The Trade Desks’ Business Development team specialises on finding, building, and growing strategic partnerships with the most innovative advertisers and agencies across Australia.
Our role is to identify, form and strengthen relationships through building trust with client partners across a range of different roles and seniority, from CEOs and Heads of Digital to investment and activation executives. We’re immensely proud of our independence and objectivity in the programmatic ecosystem and our role as consultants and advisors for access to, and success in, the entirety of the premium open internet. We actively listen, meet clients where they are on their digital journey and add value by solving complex problems with simplified solutions. Here at The Trade Desk, we're in search of Business Development Associate Directors who are master relationship builders, strategic consultants and creative problem solvers to join our growing team.
What you’ll do
• Establish strategic partnership and frameworks with key advertisers
• Acquire, build, and cultivate relationships with senior leaders at advertising agencies.
• Work collaboratively with teams spanning commercial, legal, account management, trading, data and inventory partnerships and TAM to cultivate and grow accounts.
• Communicate the value of The Trade Desk media buying platform by presenting our core value proposition, and tailor the content to suit the needs of each audience.
• Establish strategic frameworks to help encourage testing of innovative product releases based on client needs with senior leadership, product, & engineering.
• Take the lead in responding to RFPs or new client opportunities, including qualification & win strategy.
• Prospect and negotiate net new MSAs (partnership contracts) and JBPs (Joint Business Plans) with key advertisers.
• Coordinate with global counterparts to discover learnings and avoid pitfalls encountered on similar pieces of business.
• Work closely with product, marketing and revenue teams to constantly optimize efforts relating to company-wide goals.
• Identify and close strategic up-selling opportunities by understanding core client business needs and translating the value TTD offers.
• Using knowledge of the market and competitors, identify and develop the company’s unique selling propositions and differentiators.
• Accurately manage and communicate monthly forecasts and pipeline.
• Contribute to The Trade Desk culture by bringing your full self.
Who you are
• 8-10+ years of experience in digital advertising sales, managing senior relationships, ideally within a programmatic environment.
• Experience with advertising ecosystem; advertisers, online publishers, ad network, ad exchange, and agency dynamics.
• Experience with creating annual business plans and conducting business reviews.
• An excellent collaborator who can work with individuals in varying teams with differing priorities and coordinate everyone to a singular beneficial goal.
• Programmatic platform sales experience highly preferred.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to speak with C-level clients.
• Ability to deconstruct complex topics and translate them to audiences in a way that’s digestible.
• Strong quantitative skills and negotiation ability.
• A passion and curiosity to the programmatic space and a desire to constantly build on industry knowledge.
• A consistent strive for excellence.
• High EQ, with a good sense of humour.
• Proven track record of exceeding revenue expectations.
• Proficient in English, Cantonese.
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
- 8-10+ years of experience in digital advertising sales
- Experience with advertising ecosystem dynamics
- Programmatic platform sales experience highly preferred
- Strong communication skills with C-level clients
- Proficient in English and Cantonese
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.
The Trade Desk Insights
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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