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.
What we do:
Today, The Trade Desk is an open collaboration platform, where a thriving Marketplace of partners helps unlock greater platform adoption and customer value. The Marketplace Technical Account Management (TAM) team is responsible for onboarding, integrating, and supporting these partnerships while working closely with Product to continuously improve the partner experience through scalable technology.
Beyond integration, the Marketplace TAM team identifies development opportunities through collaboration with advertisers and works directly with partners to strengthen technical integrations, expand solution adoption, increase data utilization, and ultimately drive platform growth and revenue.
Skills Summary:
- Business Partnership & Commercial Alignment – Collaborates closely with Data Partnerships business managers to understand each partner's business strategy, growth trajectory, and commercial priorities. Uses these insights to proactively shape technical roadmaps, recommend integration enhancements, and prioritise development opportunities that support mutual business growth.
- Technical Expertise & Problem Solving – Demonstrates strong technical acumen to diagnose complex integration challenges, analyse data, troubleshoot issues, and deliver scalable solutions. Quickly develops expertise in new technologies and effectively translates complex technical concepts for both technical and business audiences.
- Strategic Partner Consulting – Serves as a trusted technical advisor, guiding partners toward integration strategies that align with their business objectives and long-term growth. Identifies opportunities to expand technical capabilities, increase platform adoption, and maximise partner value through thoughtful consultation.
- Program & Project Leadership – Leads complex, cross-functional integration initiatives from planning through execution. Establishes timelines, manages risks and dependencies, coordinates stakeholders, and drives projects to successful completion while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
- Ownership & Execution – Demonstrates a high degree of ownership, accountability, and initiative. Independently manages competing priorities, anticipates challenges, removes blockers, and consistently delivers high-quality results with minimal oversight.
- Product & Engineering Influence – Acts as the voice of the data partner by effectively partnering with Product and Engineering teams to communicate business priorities, technical requirements, and integration challenges. Synthesises partner feedback into actionable insights that help influence product direction, improve partner experiences, and enable scalable platform capabilities.
Who you are:
- 5+ years of experience in a technical client- or partner-facing role.
- 2+ years of adtech or a related industry.
- Experience with SQL, REST APIs, and web technologies or programming languages.
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) to improve productivity or technical workflows is a plus.
- Strong analytical, creative problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience working with clients, product, and engineering teams - with the ability to break down complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Office, and Outlook.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year university
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.
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
- 5+ years of experience in a technical client- or partner-facing role
- 2+ years of adtech or a related industry
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with REST APIs
- Experience with web technologies or programming languages
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot)
- Strong analytical, creative problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working with clients, product, and engineering teams and translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Office, and Outlook
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year university
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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