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.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior Account Executive to help accelerate our growth across the Holding Company agency market. This is a role for someone with strong commercial instincts, deep relationships, and a genuine curiosity for how technology can transform media buying. You’ll drive new business, deepen existing partnerships, and become a trusted advisor to agency leaders, investment leads, and trading specialists. You’ll thrive on variety - every conversation, client, and product update brings something new to learn.
What you'll do
- Drive growth across a Holding Company agency portfolio, owning strategic client accounts while identifying and closing new opportunities.
- Engage senior agency stakeholders - from agency leads to investment and trading leaders - with confidence and commercial credibility.
- Consultatively sell The Trade Desk’s platform, data solutions, and measurement capabilities, translating technical advantages into business outcomes.
- Craft and execute joint business plans (JBPs) to scale spend, diversify channels (CTV, DOOH, Audio, Retail Media), and drive measurable success.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with internal Account Management, Trading, Data Partnerships, and Inventory teams to deliver exceptional service and results.
- Stay ahead of change - our industry evolves fast and with it, our tech. You’ll continuously upskill across new tools, products, and integrations, bringing that knowledge to clients and peers.
- Represent The Trade Desk both professionally and socially across the Holding Company agency network and broader Sydney media community. Attend holding company, agency-specific, and industry wide events.
- Challenge convention: bring your own style and ideas to how we engage, pitch, and grow - helping us rethink legacy approaches and make them even better.
Who You Are
- 6 - 8 years’ experience in digital media or programmatic sales, ideally within the agency holding company landscape.
- Proven success building and closing relationships with agency leaders, decision-makers, and trading teams.
- A strong communicator who can hold strategic, senior-level conversations with confidence and empathy.
- Hungry to learn - open to new tech, evolving tools, and The Trade Desk’s dynamic product ecosystem.
- Socially confident and relationship-driven: you value client connection, not just contracts.
- A natural collaborator who enjoys partnering with internal teams to deliver seamless results.
- Proactive, commercially driven, and confident navigating a broader stakeholder network - someone who can find opportunities and run with them.
- A challenger mindset: you’re not afraid to ask why or suggest new ways of doing things.
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
- 6-8 years experience in digital media or programmatic sales
- Experience working within agency holding company landscape
- Proven success building and closing relationships with agency leaders and trading teams
- Ability to hold strategic, senior-level conversations with confidence and empathy
- Consultative selling of ad tech, data solutions, and measurement capabilities
- Experience crafting and executing joint business plans to scale spend and diversify channels
- Strong collaboration skills working with account management, trading, data partnerships, and inventory teams
- Social confidence and relationship-driven approach, including attending industry and agency events
- Curiosity and willingness to continuously upskill on new tools, products, and integrations
- Commercially driven, proactive mindset and ability to identify and pursue opportunities
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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