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.
What you'll do:
- Own strategic oversight of a high complex portfolio, serving as the senior client-facing executive in key relationships with C-suite and senior decision-makers at agencies and brands.
- Set portfolio strategy and goals that ladder up to broader vertical/company objectives, and own accountability for tracking and reporting progress against revenue and growth targets to senior leadership.
- Build and scale a high-performing team to drive sustained YoY growth
- Own team capacity planning and resourcing decisions, ensuring consistent, high-quality account support at scale
- Build a leadership pipeline: identify, coach, and develop future leaders, with direct accountability for succession planning on the team.
- Serve as a subject-matter authority on company capabilities and differentiators, shaping how the broader org positions them to unlock revenue and solve complex client needs.
- Act as the senior internal advocate for clients' product needs, influencing cross-functional and executive stakeholders on roadmap and prioritization.
- Cultivate senior, trust-based relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including at the executive level.
- Partner with Sales and Trading leaders at a senior level to align strategy and drive performance across Client Services.
- Lead cross-functional problem-solving with other functional leaders, identifying organization-wide opportunities for growth, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Who you are:
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience, with 6+ years of programmatic experience in trading or a hands-on-keyboard function. Enterprise or B2B experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling senior client relationships, including at the executive/C-suite level.
- Proven track record driving significant revenue growth across large, complex enterprise accounts.
- 6+ years of people leadership experience, including experience managing managers or senior individual contributors, with a track record of developing talent into next-level leadership roles.
- Experience shaping strategy and influencing senior cross-functional and executive stakeholders.
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
- 10+ years of relevant professional experience
- 6+ years of programmatic experience in trading or a hands-on-keyboard function
- Enterprise or B2B experience
- Experience building and scaling senior client relationships, including C-suite relationships
- Demonstrated success driving significant revenue growth across large, complex enterprise accounts
- 6+ years of people leadership experience
- Experience managing managers or senior individual contributors
- Track record of developing talent into next-level leadership roles
- Experience shaping strategy and influencing senior cross-functional and executive stakeholders
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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