The Trade Desk is actively hiring for 16 AI-related roles, with a significant focus on the agents stage, which accounts for 69% of their current openings. Engineering is the primary function for these positions, followed by product. The majority of these roles are located in the United States. Frequent technical tags include agent_orchestration, llm_observability, and guardrails, suggesting a focus on managing and deploying AI agents. Over the last 30 days, The Trade Desk has added 10 new AI roles, representing a 233% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 13 active AI roles, up 14% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $125k–$252k (avg $186k).
The Trade Desk currently has 15 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Staff Applied Scientist (3), Senior Product Manager, Audience (2), Applied Scientist II, Data Scientist II, Director of Design Technology. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
The Trade Desk's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (60%), data (20%), post-training (13%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
The Trade Desk is hiring AI talent in: United States (13 roles), United Kingdom (1 role), Australia (1 role).
Job postings at The Trade Desk most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, llm observability, forecasting, recommender systems.
In the past 30 days, The Trade Desk has posted 3 new AI-related roles. That is a -67% change versus the prior 30 days (9 → 3).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Trading Specialist This role is for a Senior Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on leveraging data and AI to help clients optimize their advertising campaigns on the platform. The specialist will lead data-driven conversations, develop strategies, consult with clients, and troubleshoot technical issues. They will also collaborate with internal teams, build client relationships, and contribute to product roadmap development by providing client insights. The role requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and data storytelling skills, with experience in ad tech or digital marketing. Bilingual fluency in Japanese and English is essential. | — | 5 |
| Trading Specialist The Trade Desk is seeking a Trading Specialist in Tokyo to manage campaigns, optimize strategies using data analysis, and provide strategic insights to clients. This role involves mastering the platform, collaborating with internal teams, and shaping product enhancements. | — |
| Trading Analyst This role focuses on optimizing digital advertising campaigns using data analysis and platform expertise. The Trading Analyst will translate data signals into actionable strategies to drive client growth and provide data-driven insights to clients and internal teams. The role also involves collaborating with Product Management to define features and drive platform enhancements. | — | 0 |
| Associate Business Development Director The Trade Desk is seeking an Associate Business Development Director in Tokyo to manage and grow key client accounts within their digital advertising platform. This role involves building relationships, understanding client needs, communicating platform value, and participating in product roadmap discussions. The position requires extensive experience in online advertising, strong communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to work cross-functionally. | — | 0 |
| Trading Specialist This role is for a Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, focusing on programmatic advertising. The specialist will manage campaigns, optimize strategies using data analysis, and provide insights to clients and internal teams. The role involves mastering the platform, driving client growth, and collaborating with product management for platform enhancements. It requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and client-facing skills, with bilingual fluency in Japanese and English. | — | 0 |
| Trading Analyst This role focuses on campaign management and optimization within the programmatic advertising space, leveraging data analysis to drive client growth and provide strategic insights. It involves mastering the platform, developing optimization strategies, partnering cross-functionally, and advising clients. While AI is mentioned as reshaping the industry, the core responsibilities are data analysis, client management, and platform expertise, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Account Manager Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, focusing on growing relationships with advertisers and agencies in Japan, translating business goals into programmatic advertising strategies, and driving revenue growth. The role involves acting as a strategic advisor, providing platform expertise, leading performance reviews, and collaborating with internal teams. It also includes contributing to the Client Services practice by creating training and sales materials, and gathering client feedback to influence product strategy. Requires fluency in English and Japanese, with experience in online advertising and client-facing roles. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on managing and growing relationships with advertisers and agencies in Japan, acting as a strategic advisor, driving revenue growth, and providing client feedback to influence product strategy. Requires strong client-facing and online advertising experience, with a sales background being a plus. Fluency in English and Japanese is mandatory. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director, Growth This role is for a Business Development Director focused on growth in the digital advertising space. It involves executing discovery processes, partnering with sales and client services, building strategic relationships, articulating platform value, leading RFP responses, identifying upsell opportunities, and collaborating with product, marketing, and revenue teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in digital advertising sales, a strong network within key verticals, and a background in programmatic media. This is not an AI/ML-focused role. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Manager This role is for a Senior Account Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The primary responsibilities include managing and growing client relationships, acting as a strategic advisor for programmatic advertising, driving revenue growth, and partnering with internal teams to deliver client outcomes. The role requires at least 6 years of online advertising experience and fluency in English and Japanese. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Partnerships Manager This role focuses on driving business expansion in Japan through data partnerships within the digital advertising technology space. It involves executing a data partnerships strategy, aligning with commercial teams on go-to-market narratives, identifying and driving adoption of data marketplace offerings, and collaborating with various internal teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in data, adtech, SaaS, or digital media, with a strong track record in building and scaling commercial partnerships and working with data platforms and ecosystems. | — | 0 |