Jobs at The Trade Desk

Leads vision, strategy, roadmap, and delivery for a large-scale data platform. Partners with engineering, product, data science, governance, and business leaders to prioritize shared capabilities, improve data quality and reliability, enable self-service adoption, coordinate migrations, and measure platform impact. Requires strong technical fluency in data systems, SQL expertise, organizational influence, and experience delivering platform initiatives across multiple teams.

Leads commercial deal structuring and approval operations, partnering with Sales, Business Development, Finance, Legal, and executives. Reviews pricing, discounting, incentives, margins, spend commitments, and non-standard terms; manages deal intake, documentation, routing, approvals, and pipeline tracking. Maintains deal records in Salesforce, prepares executive recommendations, enforces commercial guardrails, and improves templates, calculators, reporting, and approval processes.

Lead and expand a strategic global travel-client partnership for The Trade Desk. Responsibilities include developing multi-year account roadmaps, growing executive relationships, identifying new opportunities, coordinating global Sales, Client Services, Trading, Product, and Data teams, and representing the company in senior client forums. The role requires deep travel-industry knowledge, consultative selling, commercial negotiation, and collaboration across UK/EMEA and US markets.

Own the end-to-end design, implementation, and optimization of content discovery and search systems for Ventura TV OS cloud services. Build scalable, low-latency search, indexing, personalization, recommendation, and content-processing systems. Partner with application teams to improve relevance, performance, and user experience. Apply expertise in distributed data processing, ML inference and retraining frameworks, search quality evaluation, and large-scale data-intensive architectures.

Source and engage top technical talent through customized strategies, market research, and personalized outreach. Partner with recruiters and hiring managers, maintain ATS/CRM data, deliver pipeline updates and market intelligence, leverage AI-enabled tools and automation, and build talent maps for critical skills to support hiring for software, ML/AI, and data engineering roles.

Own forecasting and planning products, including AI capabilities, across The Trade Desk platform. Partner with executives, engineers, researchers, and UX designers to define user-centered solutions, make data-driven decisions, establish execution plans, and develop product roadmaps aligned with business goals and customer needs.

Leads people advisory support for Product and Technology organizations, partnering with senior leaders on organizational effectiveness, talent planning, performance, succession, compensation, employee relations, and organizational change. Manages and develops one People Advisory Partner, coordinates cross-functional People Team support, uses data to guide decisions, and coaches leaders through complex workforce matters.

Leads the architecture, development, integration, and deployment of Anaplan models supporting revenue accounting, incentive compensation, sales forecasting, and FP&A. Partners with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable planning solutions, designs user interfaces and dashboards, manages delivery timelines and quality, and provides technical guidance, training, documentation, and ongoing platform support.

Designs and maintains scalable backend data pipelines using distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark. Builds RESTful APIs, data integrations, model-serving pipelines, monitoring and observability systems, and optimized storage solutions across relational, NoSQL, and cloud data platforms. Partners with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and stakeholders on architecture and production infrastructure. Requires five years of relevant experience, including substantial experience with software development, cloud platforms, distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, databases, and performance optimization.

Own design, build, operate, and monitor Ventura OS cloud infrastructure: compute, Kubernetes, storage, databases, identity, CI/CD, telemetry, GPU/ML serving, and build/release systems. Drive migrations, set platform standards, ensure reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency while partnering with application teams and mentoring engineers.

Lead revenue and take-rate financial modeling and forecasting, partner with product/commercial/data teams, produce exec-level presentations, drive planning cycles, design pricing/product financial models, and mentor junior FP&A staff while executing strategic finance projects.

Design, implement, and own full-lifecycle features for The Trade Desk's real-time bidding platform. Deliver high-quality, low-latency changes with automated tests, metrics, and monitoring. Drive cross-component architecture and performance improvements, validate releases, participate in code/design reviews, and contribute to the technical hiring process.