The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with over 3,000 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.
Senior Technical Sourcer, APAC (Contractor)
About the job
The Trade Desk is a global technology company helping advertisers reach 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 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. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another.
As a Senior Technical Sourcer supporting APAC, you will build the talent pipelines that support our Engineering and Applied Science teams. Partnering closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and technical leaders, you will translate hiring priorities into targeted sourcing strategies, engage exceptional technical talent, and bring market insights into hiring decisions.
You will own sourcing strategy and upper-funnel execution across multiple APAC markets, adapting your approach to different talent ecosystems, candidate motivations, and hiring needs. This role suits someone who combines hands-on sourcing expertise with sound judgment, curiosity, and the ability to turn data into action.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and own sourcing strategies across APAC, tailoring your approach by role, level, location, and skill set for Engineering and Applied Science hiring.
- Build and manage healthy talent pipelines, from market mapping and prospect identification through engagement, initial qualification, and handoff to recruiting partners. Balance immediate hiring needs with long-term relationships for critical talent areas.
- Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to define target profiles, calibrate candidate quality, agree priorities, and establish clear handoffs and feedback loops.
- Engage hard-to-reach technical talent through thoughtful, personalized outreach. Translate The Trade Desk’s engineering challenges, business impact, and culture into compelling conversations grounded in candidates’ interests and motivations.
- Use funnel data to improve results, tracking outreach response, candidate engagement, qualification, and downstream conversion. Diagnose where pipelines lose momentum and recommend practical changes to targeting, messaging, or assessment alignment.
- Bring actionable APAC market intelligence to hiring discussions, including talent availability, competitor activity, candidate compensation expectations, and location-specific dynamics. Use evidence to inform realistic expectations and hiring trade-offs.
- Explore and apply AI-assisted research, automation, and emerging sourcing tools to improve research depth, relevance, and efficiency, while maintaining accuracy, candidate privacy, and personalized engagement.
- Diversify sourcing channels through technical communities, referrals, open-source projects, research networks, and other relevant talent ecosystems.
- Communicate pipeline health and priorities clearly, sharing progress, risks, market feedback, and recommended next steps as hiring needs evolve.
- Maintain accurate candidate and sourcing data in ATS and CRM systems, supporting a coordinated candidate experience and reliable reporting. Share successful approaches and market knowledge with the wider TA team.
Who You Are
- You bring 7+ years of technical sourcing or technical recruiting experience, gained in-house, within an agency, or through a combination of both, with a strong track record of engaging engineering talent.
- You have experience sourcing across multiple APAC markets and understand how talent availability, candidate expectations, and engagement approaches vary by location.
- You can independently translate an ambiguous hiring brief into a focused sourcing plan, test your assumptions, and adjust based on evidence.
- You have built pipelines that progressed into qualified interviews and hires, and can explain how your sourcing decisions contributed to those outcomes.
- You understand technical concepts such as distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and machine learning well enough to identify relevant experience and hold credible initial candidate conversations.
- You are proficient in advanced search techniques and tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, search engines, and ATS/CRM platforms, and know when to look beyond established channels.
- You have practical experience using AI-assisted tools or automation in sourcing and can demonstrate how you assess their accuracy and impact.
- You are comfortable analyzing funnel metrics, identifying bottlenecks, and translating findings into clear recommendations.
- You build effective partnerships with recruiters and hiring managers through clear communication, constructive challenge, and consistent follow-through.
- You manage multiple complex searches with strong prioritization, ownership, and adaptability.
- You bring integrity, discretion, and a commitment to inclusive hiring and a thoughtful candidate experience.
Preferred Experience
- Sourcing for applied science, AI/ML, or other highly specialized technical disciplines.
- Building pipelines for senior or staff-level engineers, particularly in distributed systems, large-scale infrastructure, or data-intensive environments.
- Developing sourcing approaches for new markets or hard-to-fill technical roles.
- Familiarity with technology platforms operating at significant scale.
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
- 7+ years of technical sourcing or technical recruiting experience
- Experience sourcing across multiple APAC markets
- Experience building pipelines that progressed to qualified interviews and hires
- Understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and machine learning concepts
- Proficiency with advanced search techniques, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, search engines, and ATS/CRM platforms
- Practical experience using AI-assisted tools or automation in sourcing
- Experience analyzing funnel metrics and recommending improvements
- Ability to manage multiple complex searches with strong prioritization and adaptability
- Integrity, discretion, inclusive hiring practices, and commitment to a thoughtful candidate experience
- Experience sourcing for applied science, AI/ML, or other highly specialized technical disciplines
- Experience building pipelines for senior or staff-level engineers in distributed systems, infrastructure, or data-intensive environments
- Experience developing sourcing approaches for new markets or hard-to-fill technical roles
- Familiarity with technology platforms operating at significant scale
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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