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.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Audience strategy is how advertisers turn a campaign brief into media that reaches the right person. It's the discipline of combining first-party data, third-party data, and modeled signals into a campaign seed or audience that delivers the right message to the right people and drives results. Programmatic media and The Trade Desk are built to be audience first, making these experiences core to how customers get value out of our products.
We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to own TTD's advertiser-facing experience for building, curating, and activating audiences, the product surface where audience strategy becomes programmatic execution. This person deeply understands how advertisers think about audience strategy, has strong product and UX instincts, and partners closely with the adjacent product teams to make sure the right data and capabilities show up in the right workflow at the right time. This is a high-visibility product role at the center of how TTD's buyers find and reach the right audiences across the open internet.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
• Own product strategy and roadmap for TTD's in-platform audience experiences
• Design end-to-end workflows for building and assigning campaign seeds to audiences from first- and third-party data for activation
• Partner closely with engineering, design, and data science to deliver best-in-class advertiser-facing experiences
• Drive adoption of audience features with agencies, brands, and internal trading teams
• Use AI to move faster, applying AI tools across research, requirements, analysis, and delivery to raise the pace and quality bar of your PM work
• Define and track success metrics for audience products, including audience quality, performance, and revenue impact
• Represent the audience product vision internally and externally with brands and agencies
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 7-10+ years of product management experience, ideally in advertising technology or an adjacent platform business, with a proven track record of launching complex, data-intensive products
• Proven experience taking products from concept to launch, navigating ambiguity and validating demand along the way
• Deep understanding of how advertisers build and use audiences (segmentation, seed audiences, lookalikes) and how audience signals flow through programmatic pipes
• Experience working with first-party and third-party data, DMPs/CDPs, or data marketplaces
• Strong technical and UX fluency; comfortable partnering closely with engineering, design, and data science to turn complex data into a simple advertiser-facing workflow
• Hands-on AI experience: you've used AI tools to accelerate research, requirements, analysis, or delivery
• Experience crafting Product Requirements Documents and driving cross-functional execution in a matrixed environment
• A demonstrated point of view on where audience targeting is headed as the open internet evolves
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.
[LA JOBS ONLY] The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.
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In accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents, retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, well-being benefits, reimbursement for certain tuition expenses, parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year. Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.
Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave
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
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 7-10+ years of product management experience
- Experience in advertising technology or an adjacent platform business
- Proven track record of launching complex, data-intensive products
- Experience taking products from concept to launch, navigating ambiguity, and validating demand
- Deep understanding of advertiser audience strategy, including segmentation, seed audiences, and lookalikes
- Understanding of how audience signals flow through programmatic systems
- Experience with first-party and third-party data, DMPs, CDPs, or data marketplaces
- Strong technical and UX fluency
- Experience partnering with engineering, design, and data science
- Hands-on experience using AI tools to accelerate research, requirements, analysis, or delivery
- Experience crafting Product Requirements Documents and driving cross-functional execution in a matrixed environment
- Demonstrated point of view on the future of audience targeting as the open internet evolves
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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