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.
We are hiring a Director of Client Services to lead a front-line team of Account Managers and Traders, scale high-value partner relationships, and act as a strategic, in-market leader. This role blends people leadership, hands-on campaign and technical oversight, and cross-functional partnership with Product, Engineering, and Business Development to ensure partner growth, product adoption, and revenue performance.
What you'll do:
- Lead and grow a multidisciplinary client services team (Account Managers, Traders) supporting partner integrations and external demand generation.
- Own senior leadership relationships across a portfolio of agency and brand partners; act as primary escalation and in-market executive for high-value 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
- Identify strategic up-selling opportunities by understanding core client business needs
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to communicate partner needs, prioritize API/product roadmap items, and validate releases with partners.
- Help build the Client Services practice, by creating training materials, best practices, sales materials and customer facing guides
- Create and present executive-level reporting and forecasts to internal stakeholders and partners; translate data into actionable strategies.
- Lead cross-functional programs (onboarding, go-to-market launches, feature pilots) to accelerate partner time-to-value.
- Make a positive contribution to the Trade Desk company culture
Who you are:
- 10+ years in digital media, or ad tech with strong exposure to advertiser/agency relationships; minimum 4+ years managing client-facing teams.
- Excellent client-facing communication and executive presence; proven ability to influence senior partners and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to set goals, measure performance, hold teams accountable, and provide actionable feedback.
- Deep understanding of marketing ecosystem, digital media and industry knowledge.
- Expertise in working with ad tech and other optimization platforms is a plus
- Demonstrated success managing technical integrations or working closely with engineering/product teams. Strong analytical skills and comfort with metrics-driven decision-making.
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
- 10+ years in digital media or ad tech
- Minimum 4+ years managing client-facing teams
- Excellent client-facing communication and executive presence
- Proven leadership skills: set goals, measure performance, provide feedback
- Deep understanding of marketing ecosystem and digital media industry knowledge
- Demonstrated success managing technical integrations or working closely with engineering/product teams
- Strong analytical skills and comfort with metrics-driven decision-making
- Expertise with ad tech and other optimization platforms
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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