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 |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Applied Scientist Staff Applied Scientist role focused on building and scaling AI/ML systems for digital advertising, including control systems, recommendation engines, and time series models. Requires strong ML, statistics, and experimental design skills, with experience in end-to-end project ownership from research to production. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer – Agentic AI Staff Software Engineer role focused on Agentic AI within a large-scale digital advertising platform. The role involves end-to-end ownership of designing, building, and delivering products, with opportunities to work on distributed systems, data challenges, and machine learning. Emphasis on technical leadership, mentoring, and contributing to the team's growth. | Agent |
| 5 |
| Business Development Director - Strategic Accounts This role is for a Business Development Director focused on strategic accounts in the digital advertising technology space. The primary responsibilities involve leading business development strategies, driving growth in client relationships, developing and scaling brand partnerships, crafting Joint Business Plans, and communicating the company's value proposition. The role requires expertise in the online advertising landscape, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to manage long sales cycles. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Trading Specialist This role is for a Trading Specialist in programmatic advertising at The Trade Desk. The responsibilities include managing daily trading efforts, developing trading strategies, growing client accounts, training clients on the platform, and acting as an internal resource for product offerings. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in programmatic advertising, client-facing skills, strong communication, time management, troubleshooting, analytical abilities, and quantitative skills with a passion for insights from large datasets. | — | 0 |
| Associate Account Director This role is for an Associate Account Director at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on managing and growing agency accounts, acting as a consultant, and working with internal teams to improve client campaigns and the platform. It requires extensive advertising and client-facing experience, with a focus on account growth and client training. | — | 0 |
| GTM Strategy and Operations Director - EMEA The Trade Desk is seeking a GTM Strategy and Operations Director for their EMEA Agency team. This senior individual contributor role will own the strategic operations agenda, act as a strategic partner to leadership, lead cross-functional collaboration, and own the analytical framework for the business. Responsibilities include defining KPIs, trend analyses, forecasting models, driving data integrity, designing best practices, leading complex initiatives, spearheading organizational change management, and representing the EMEA Agency team's perspective in global solution design. The role also involves developing junior talent. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on end-to-end ownership of back-end infrastructure and data-focused products, including model pipelines for bidding optimizations, within a large-scale global digital advertising platform. Emphasizes quality, distributed systems, and algorithmic challenges. | — | 0 |
| Sr Staff Product Manager This role is for a Senior Staff Product Manager at The Trade Desk, focusing on their Creative products within the digital advertising platform. The responsibilities include owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution for these products, working with engineering and data science teams, gathering customer requirements, designing prototypes, and prioritizing releases. The role requires extensive experience in product management within the Creatives space, strong technical and data-driven capabilities, and the ability to manage complex, ambiguous projects. | — | 0 |
| Senior Recruiter II - Engineering Senior Recruiter II focused on Engineering hiring across EMEA for The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves partnering with hiring managers, understanding technical requirements, executing hiring strategies, and managing the full-cycle recruitment process. Emphasis on finding technical talent, improving recruitment processes, and ensuring a best-in-class candidate experience. The role also involves operational projects and data-driven approaches. | — | 0 |
| Pensions Manager The Pensions Manager role at The Trade Desk focuses on managing employee pension data, processing contributions, and ensuring compliance with pension laws across EMEA and APAC. This role involves developing a governance roadmap, collaborating with global benefits teams on audits, and providing customer service to employees. It requires strong data analysis skills, relationship building, and experience in pension administration. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer – Janus Platform Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving The Trade Desk's internal feature release platform (Janus). This platform integrates with hundreds of internal services to propagate configuration changes in near real-time, enabling cross-functional teams to release features. The role involves owning the full stack, building self-service tooling, ensuring platform reliability at scale, and driving architectural decisions. | — | 0 |
| Associate Manager Credit & Cash EMEA Associate Manager for Credit & Cash in EMEA, responsible for managing credit risk, cash allocation, and collections processes for the region. This role involves financial analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and team management within a global technology company. | — | 0 |
| Sales Development Representative (English & French Speaking) Sales Development Representative role focused on outbound outreach to prospects in the EMEA region, requiring business-level proficiency in English and French. The role involves identifying and engaging potential clients, understanding their needs, and working with sales and marketing teams to drive demand. | — | 0 |
| Sales Development Representative (English & German speaking) Sales Development Representative for The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on outbound sales, pursuing prospects in the EMEA region, and increasing demand velocity. Responsibilities include constructing and executing outreach, conducting intro conversations, managing CRM tools, and collaborating with sales and marketing teams. Requires business-level proficiency in English and German, 2+ years of business development experience, and comfort with cold calling. | — | 0 |
| Senior Accountant Senior Accountant role focused on US GAAP month-end close for European subsidiaries, lease and fixed asset accounting, and regional fluctuation analysis. Requires experience with Oracle or similar ERP systems and strong Excel skills. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Sales Finance EMEA Manager, Sales Finance EMEA role focused on providing financial insight, revenue forecasting, and commercial decision support to the EMEA sales organization. The role involves building analytical frameworks, leading the development of executive materials, partnering with data and BI teams, and connecting large datasets to surface insights. It requires a strategic thinker with an engineer-minded approach to data and finance, comfortable with ambiguity and operating across strategic, analytical, and execution modes. | — | 0 |
| Sr Trading Specialist This role is for a Sr Trading Specialist in programmatic advertising. The responsibilities include managing trading efforts, developing strategies, growing accounts, training clients, and acting as an internal resource. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in programmatic advertising, client-facing skills, strong communication, analytical abilities, and quantitative skills for mining insights from large datasets. | — | 0 |
| Data Partnerships Manager The Trade Desk is hiring a Data Partnerships Manager in London to manage integrations and partnerships with data providers across EMEA. This role involves supporting partner onboarding, managing relationships, developing enablement materials for commercial teams, and contributing to team operations. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in adtech or a related field, strong organizational and communication skills, and familiarity with programmatic advertising. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Partnerships Manager (Emerging Markets) Senior Data Partnerships Manager for emerging markets in EMEA, focusing on integrating new data partners, driving data adoption and revenue growth, and enabling commercial teams with data strategies within the adtech industry. | — | 0 |
| Sr Privacy Counsel This role is for a Sr. Privacy Counsel in London, focusing on advising the business on global privacy issues, ensuring compliance, and managing risk. It involves drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, researching privacy laws, and supporting the implementation of privacy risk management. The role requires a UK qualified Solicitor with at least 6 years of post-qualified experience in privacy matters and global data protection regulations. | — | 0 |
| Sr Business Development Director - EMEA Growth This role is for a Sr. Business Development Director focused on EMEA Growth within The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The individual will be responsible for identifying, engaging, pitching, and closing large advertisers, developing strategic partnerships, and driving revenue growth. The role involves leading new business strategies, acting as a player-coach, crafting Joint Business Plans, and collaborating cross-functionally. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in building brand partnerships, understanding the online advertising landscape, and strong negotiation and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| IT Support Analyst II IT Support Analyst II role focused on providing hands-on support for endpoint devices, managing helpdesk tickets, deploying hardware/software, and troubleshooting various IT issues within a global technology company. | — | 0 |
| Lead Staff Software Engineer Lead Staff Software Engineer role at The Trade Desk, focusing on end-to-end ownership of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products. The role involves technical leadership, project execution, and people management within an agile, global environment. Responsibilities include code reviews, contributing to team objectives, roadmap development, execution planning, team efficiency analysis, and managing a small team. Requires strong engineering fundamentals, experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), OO programming (C#, Java, C++), and distributed systems. The role emphasizes creative thinking, learning, innovation, and collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Lead Systems Reliability Engineer (Linux & Distributed Systems) Lead Systems Reliability Engineer role focused on building and maintaining a data-driven platform at global scale, involving real-time processing with low latency. Responsibilities include infrastructure automation, owning operations for Linux-based systems (Aerospike, Kafka, Mongo), reviewing new use cases, and benchmarking hardware. The role involves deep performance engineering and collaboration with hardware/software vendors. | — | 0 |