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 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.
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).
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| Sr Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on improving customer experience, troubleshooting complex systems, and building tooling for issue remediation within a large-scale digital advertising platform. Emphasizes full-stack problem-solving and cross-team collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Growth) Senior Business Development Director focused on acquiring new brand partnerships for The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. This role involves leading complex sales cycles, developing custom solutions, and negotiating commercial agreements. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive Senior Account Executive for The Trade Desk, a global technology company and leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role focuses on acquiring net new advertisers by identifying, engaging, and closing new brand relationships, owning the full sales cycle from initial outreach through first scaled investment. The role requires driving net new business acquisition, prospecting, leading discovery conversations, presenting the platform, building senior relationships, developing strategies for competitive opportunities, negotiating and closing agreements, and collaborating cross-functionally. Requires 6-8+ years in digital media or ad tech sales with a strong emphasis on net new business development, proven success in a quota-carrying role, and experience selling programmatic or advertising technology solutions. |
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| Senior Account Executive, Enterprise Senior Account Executive, Enterprise role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. Focuses on leading commercial relationships, owning a quota-carrying book of business, and translating client objectives into media strategies using the company's platform and data. Requires 6-10+ years of experience in digital advertising sales, with a proven track record of exceeding revenue targets and strong client relationship-building skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive This is a Senior Account Executive role focused on acquiring new advertisers for The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. The role involves owning the full sales cycle, from prospecting to closing deals, and building relationships with senior decision-makers. It requires driving new business acquisition, managing pipeline, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure client success. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive Senior Account Executive focused on acquiring new advertisers for The Trade Desk's independent digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include managing the full sales cycle, building pipeline, negotiating agreements, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure client success. | — | 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 |
| Manager, Brand Marketing - Healthcare & Pharma This role is for a Manager of Brand Marketing focused on the Healthcare & Pharma category at The Trade Desk. The responsibilities include developing marketing strategies, creating campaigns, translating insights into messaging, leading integrated programs, and collaborating with various internal teams (Product Marketing, Research & Insights, Performance Marketing, etc.) to drive business goals and thought leadership within the healthcare and pharma sectors. The role requires experience in B2B marketing, category marketing, and a deep understanding of the healthcare/pharma marketing landscape. | — | 0 |
| Programmatic Account Manager This role is for a Programmatic Account Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on managing and growing key agency accounts, providing strategic recommendations, data-driven insights, and exceptional client service. Responsibilities include onboarding new customers, identifying growth opportunities, becoming an expert on the platform, providing client training, and collaborating with Product Management on feature enhancements. The ideal candidate has experience in online advertising, preferably within a DSP, and possesses strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Lead Senior Software Engineer - Platform Security Lead Senior Software Engineer for Platform Security at The Trade Desk, focusing on building and operating security-critical systems at massive scale. This role involves technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and mentoring engineers, with a future focus on AI-driven security posture analysis. | — | 0 |
| Associate Account Director Associate Account Director role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The role involves managing and growing enterprise accounts, communicating the value of the media buying platform, understanding competitive differentiators, acting as a consultative business partner, and working with various teams to accelerate client objectives. Responsibilities include onboarding new customers, growing existing accounts, providing training on the platform, and collaborating with Product Management on feature enhancements. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree, 10 years of digital advertising and client-facing experience, and proven account growth track record. | — | 0 |
| Accountant Staff Accountant role focused on treasury accounting activities, including daily cash reporting, journal entries, account reconciliations, and quarterly disclosures. The role also involves assisting with audits, researching accounting conventions, and improving process automation. Requires strong Excel skills and knowledge of GAAP and SOX. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Back-end/Data Pipeline - VenturaOS Senior Software Engineer focused on backend/data pipeline development for a TV operating system. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining large-scale data pipelines using technologies like Apache Spark, developing efficient data processing workflows, creating robust APIs, integrating with ML models, implementing monitoring, and optimizing data storage. The role emphasizes data warehousing, data governance, and experience with ML pipelines in personalization or ad-tech within streaming/TVOS platforms. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II for the Service Excellence (SE) team, focusing on the Monitoring & Observability (MOT) taskforce. The role involves building and operating the observability platform, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards, used across TTD engineering. | — | 0 |
| Director, Client Service Director, Client Service at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role focuses on managing client accounts, leading teams to drive account growth, developing client relationships, and advocating for client needs internally. Requires strong leadership, client management, and programmatic advertising experience. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Pharma) This role is for a Business Development Director in the Pharma sector, focusing on managing and growing strategic client relationships within the digital advertising platform. It involves sales, client management, RFP responses, and identifying up-selling opportunities, requiring deep understanding of the pharmaceutical category and online advertising. | — | 0 |
| Director, Retail - VenturaOS The Trade Desk is seeking a Director, Retail Partnerships to own the end-to-end strategy, execution, and growth of retail relationships for their CTV platform, Ventura OS. This role involves scaling platform distribution, activation, and monetization through strategic retail alliances, and driving joint monetization strategies linking CTV inventory with retail shopper data. | — | 0 |
| Technical Account Manager Technical Account Manager role focused on managing integrations with inventory/publisher partners in the digital advertising space. The role involves providing technical guidance, acting as a liaison between partners and engineering, and advising on technical solutions. It requires understanding and communicating advanced engineering concepts to non-technical stakeholders and managing complex integration projects. | — | 0 |
| Sr Director, Product Management - VenturaOS Senior Director, Product Management for Ventura OS, a next-generation Connected TV platform. This role involves leading strategy and execution for a core product domain, driving product strategy and roadmap, and owning the full product lifecycle from concept to launch and iteration. The position requires experience in 0->1 environments, complex platform challenges, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, research, design, and data science teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced product leader with a platform and systems thinking approach, technically fluent, influential, data-driven, and comfortable with ambiguity. CTV/streaming experience is preferred. | — | 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 |
| Manager, Security Engineering Manager, Security Engineering to lead a combined team of Application Security and Platform Security engineers, with end-to-end ownership of how TTD secures both the code they ship and the infrastructure they run it on. Contribute to the strategy, roadmap, and execution of TTD’s Security Engineering function — including the KPIs, maturity model, and executive-level reporting that demonstrate measurable improvement in our overall security posture over time. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Engineering & Applied Science - VenturaOS This role is for a Senior Director of Engineering & Applied Science to lead the engineering organization for VenturaOS, a next-generation Connected TV platform. The role involves owning the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of the platform, which includes consumer experiences, platform software, device/OS engineering, backend services, monetization, partner integrations, and core infrastructure. The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading large-scale engineering organizations and a strong technical background in operating systems, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure, with a preference for experience in Connected TV or consumer operating systems. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer role at The Trade Desk, focusing on building and delivering data-focused products and back-end infrastructure for a global digital advertising platform. The role involves end-to-end ownership, working with a variety of technologies, and contributing to large-scale distributed systems and data challenges. Staff Engineers also provide technical leadership and mentorship. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Creative Operations The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Manager, Creative Operations to manage initiatives for the creative team, focusing on editorial and events. This role involves developing and tracking project timelines, managing agency relationships, liaising between business leads and the creative team, and ensuring legal sign-offs for marketing collateral. The position also requires operating and improving the Project Management Tool and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure clear communication. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive (Growth) Senior Account Executive role focused on acquiring new advertisers for The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include managing the full sales cycle, prospecting, leading client conversations, presenting the platform, negotiating deals, and collaborating with internal teams. Requires 6-8+ years of experience in digital media or ad tech sales with a focus on new business development and a proven track record in quota-carrying roles. Experience selling programmatic or ad tech solutions is strongly preferred. | — | 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 |
| Associate Account Director This role is for an Associate Account Director in digital advertising, focusing on revenue growth and strategic client relationships within Tier 1 accounts in Thailand and Vietnam. The position involves acting as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders, developing account roadmaps, and collaborating with product management to drive platform enhancements. It requires a strong understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem and consultative sales experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive (Independent Agencies) Senior Account Executive role focused on building relationships with independent advertising agencies within The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. The role involves driving sales, understanding client needs, and contributing to product roadmap discussions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Inventory Development Senior Manager, Inventory Development at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role focuses on establishing and cultivating relationships with key publisher organizations, building strategic business plans, and evangelizing identity and addressability strategies. The position requires extensive experience in programmatic advertising and publisher business development, with a strong track record of closing deals and established relationships within the digital advertising ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Sales Development Representative The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role is for a Sales Development Representative who will pursue outbound brand prospects in North America, seeking to increase outbound demand velocity. The role involves constructing and executing outbound outreach, conducting high-level intro conversations, and working closely with sales and marketing teams. Previous advertising technology experience is required. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive (Pharma) Senior Account Executive (Pharma) at The Trade Desk, a global technology company and leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role focuses on managing and growing strategic relationships with large Healthcare/Pharmaceutical clients, identifying new revenue streams, responding to RFPs, and communicating the value of The Trade Desk media buying platform. The role requires 5+ years of digital advertising sales experience, with Pharma experience strongly preferred, and a proven track record of exceeding revenue expectations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Client Service The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising. This Senior Director, Client Service role focuses on leading and scaling client service teams, driving revenue growth, building client relationships, and contributing to the evolution of the organization. The role requires strong people management, strategic planning, and client engagement skills within the digital advertising domain. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (P&G) Business Development Director role focused on driving revenue and deepening client relationships within The Trade Desk's strategic partnership with Procter & Gamble. The role involves developing and executing advertising strategies, providing thought leadership in media buying, and contributing to commercial strategy across various advertising solutions. | — | 0 |
| Director, Brand Marketing Director, Brand Marketing role at The Trade Desk, focusing on developing and executing go-to-market strategies, brand building initiatives, and content strategy for the ANZ region. This role requires strong leadership, collaboration with various marketing teams, and a deep understanding of marketing KPIs and lead funnel metrics. | — | 0 |
| Sr. HR Generalist This role is for a Sr. HR Generalist focused on HR operations and People Solutions, handling complex casework, process optimization, and global improvements within the employee lifecycle. It involves working with HR systems like Workday and ServiceNow, collaborating cross-functionally, and ensuring operational efficiency and employee experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr. HR Generalist This role is for a Sr. HR Generalist focused on HR operations and People Solutions, handling complex casework, process optimization, and global improvements within the employee lifecycle. It involves working with HR systems like Workday and ServiceNow, collaborating cross-functionally, and ensuring operational efficiency and employee experience. | — | 0 |
| Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy role focused on providing legal counsel to product and business teams to mitigate legal risk in product development, with a specific emphasis on privacy laws and advertising technology, including the use of AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive (Pharma) This role is for a Senior Account Executive in Pharma at The Trade Desk, a digital advertising technology company. The role focuses on managing and growing strategic client relationships within the pharmaceutical sector, identifying new revenue streams, responding to RFPs, and communicating the value of The Trade Desk's platform. It involves understanding client needs, participating in product roadmap discussions, and managing forecasts. The role requires 5+ years of digital advertising sales experience, with a strong preference for Pharma experience and programmatic platform sales experience. | — | 0 |
| Director, Business Development (Mid Market Growth) This role is for a Director of Business Development focused on Mid Market Growth in digital advertising. The individual will lead and build a team of sales professionals, drive net-new revenue through outbound strategies, and establish scalable processes and frameworks. The role requires significant experience in digital advertising sales, a proven track record in acquisition, and strong leadership and coaching skills. | — | 0 |
| Lead Associate Account Director This role is for a Lead Associate Account Director at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on managing agency relationships, providing strategic advice, demonstrating platform value, leading client meetings, and developing a team of Account Managers. It involves understanding client business objectives and serving as a liaison between clients and the product team, but does not involve direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Contracts Manager This role is for a Senior Contracts Manager to lead and evolve the Contracts Management function within the Legal Operations team. The individual will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements, managing a team of Contracts Managers, establishing best practices, and partnering with technology teams to implement CLM solutions. The role requires significant experience in contracts management and people leadership, with a focus on driving operational excellence and scalability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Development Director (Independent Agencies) Senior Business Development Director role focused on developing strategy, building relationships with independent agencies, and negotiating commercial agreements for a digital advertising platform. Requires extensive sales and negotiation experience in the digital media and SaaS/Enterprise space. | — | 0 |
| Associate Manager, Infrastructure BizOps (Foundation) This role is for an Associate Manager, Infrastructure BizOps (Foundation) at The Trade Desk. The primary focus is on owning the on-prem compute (Foundation) product line, including financial planning, commercial strategy, and results. Responsibilities include on-prem capacity planning, building CapEx and OpEx plans, leading hardware and capacity sourcing, structuring large on-prem commitments, and managing the FP&A cycle for the on-prem infrastructure. The role requires strong financial and quantitative modeling skills, familiarity with on-prem infrastructure buildouts, and strategic judgment. It is a product-focused role within the infrastructure business operations team, managing a significant portion of the company's infrastructure spend. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Inventory Management This role focuses on managing and growing partnerships with digital publishers and supply-side platforms in the digital advertising space. It involves supporting partner implementations of key initiatives, monitoring partnership performance, optimizing and scaling partnerships through data-driven solutions, and collaborating with internal teams on technical adoptions and operational efficiencies. The ideal candidate has extensive programmatic experience and a proven track record in building and managing vendor/client relationships. | — | 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 |
| Sr Account Manager This role is for a Sr. Account Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The role involves managing and growing agency accounts, onboarding new customers, and providing training on The Trade Desk platform. It requires experience in online advertising, client-facing roles, and campaign management, with a focus on client success and platform expertise. | — | 0 |
| Sr Accounts Payable Specialist The Trade Desk is seeking a Sr Accounts Payable Specialist for their APAC region. This role involves managing AP processes for multiple entities, assisting with audits, processing invoices and payments, and collaborating with various finance and compliance teams. The ideal candidate has experience in end-to-end AP, knowledge of accounting software, strong Excel skills, and the ability to manage international transactions. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Pharma) The Trade Desk is seeking a Business Development Director for their Pharma division. This role involves managing strategic relationships with major pharmaceutical clients, cultivating accounts, and communicating the value of The Trade Desk's media buying platform. The position requires a proven track record in online advertising sales/marketing, a deep understanding of the Healthcare/Pharmaceutical category, and strong relationship-building and negotiation skills. The role will also participate in product roadmap discussions and respond to RFPs. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Workplace Services This role is for a Manager of Workplace Services at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The position involves leading a team to manage the day-to-day workplace experience, including operations, employee and guest experience, facilities, vendor management, and safety. The ideal candidate is a strategic, hospitality-driven operator with experience in leadership, problem-solving, and managing complex operations in fast-paced environments. The role is not directly related to AI/ML development or research. | — | 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 |