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).
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| Business Development Director, North Asia Outbound This role is for a Business Development Director focused on driving regional market expansion in North Asia by hunting new business opportunities and delivering exceptional growth for clients. The role involves prospecting and winning top cross-border brands expanding outbound from North Asia, acting as a solution seller for major exporters and emerging verticals like Social Apps and AI. It requires strong sales acumen, a drive to exceed revenue targets, and the ability to foster C-level relationships. | — | 0 |
| Senior Executive Recruiting Coordinator The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Executive Candidate Experience Partner to support their Executive Recruiting and Candidate Experience teams. This role is responsible for owning the end-to-end coordination and facilitation of executive-level hiring processes, ensuring a seamless candidate experience. The role involves managing complex scheduling, partnering with senior leaders, and driving process enhancements. | — |
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| General Manager, Revenue Operations (Agency and Growth) The Trade Desk is seeking a General Manager, Revenue Operations to lead and scale revenue operations for their Agency and Growth Portfolios. This senior leadership role involves translating global revenue strategy into execution, partnering with GTM, Finance, and Product teams, and building high-performing operational teams. The role requires experience in revenue operations, B2B/technology organizations, and supporting agency-led commercial models, with a strong analytical and leadership skillset. | — | 0 |
| Senior Recruiter - Sales (Contract) This role is for a Senior Recruiter focused on Sales, Business Development, and Client Services hiring for The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The contract position requires full-cycle recruitment, internal mobility support, and stakeholder partnership. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of recruiting experience, preferably in AdTech or Digital Media, with a proven ability to manage high-volume, fast-paced environments and support internal hiring processes. | — | 0 |
| Compensation Operations Analyst The Trade Desk is seeking a Compensation Operations Analyst to support the administration and analysis of sales incentive compensation for approximately 1,500 employees. This role involves ensuring accurate and timely commission payouts, responding to inquiries, preparing financial analyses, and collaborating with various internal teams. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of experience in finance, analytics, or operations, strong Excel skills, and a detail-oriented approach. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director, Business Development This is a Business Development Associate Director role in the digital advertising space, focusing on acquiring, building, and cultivating relationships with senior leaders at holding companies. The role involves communicating the value of The Trade Desk media buying platform, establishing strategic frameworks for product releases, responding to RFPs, and identifying up-selling opportunities. It requires strong sales, relationship management, and communication skills within the programmatic advertising ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director, Business Development The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role focuses on business development, acquiring and cultivating relationships with senior leaders at holding companies, communicating the value of the media buying platform, and identifying strategic up-selling opportunities. It involves working with various internal teams and external clients to drive growth and success in the programmatic advertising space. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager, Core Platform Ventura TV OS This Principal Product Manager role focuses on the core platform capabilities of a new Connected TV operating system (Ventura OS). The role involves owning the vision, roadmap, and execution for system-level UX, setup, profiles, privacy, and compliance. It requires working closely with partners (OEMs, ODMs, SoCs) on hardware/software integration, performance, and defining platform standards for onboarding, authentication, consent, and data handling. A key aspect is leading privacy and compliance from a product perspective and defining certification requirements. | — | 0 |
| Lead Associate Trading Director Lead Associate Trading Director at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role focuses on managing client relationships, advising on innovative solutions, leading agency client meetings, and coaching a team of Traders. It involves identifying product development needs based on client objectives and acting as a liaison between clients and the product team. The position requires strong leadership, client-facing, and team management skills, with a focus on driving revenue growth and developing talent within a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Programmatic Trading Specialist This role is for a Programmatic Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a digital advertising technology company. The specialist will collaborate with Account Management and Business Development to provide strategic recommendations, troubleshoot campaign issues, analyze data using tools like Excel and Tableau, and consult with clients on platform best practices. The role requires 2+ years of client-facing experience in ad tech, digital marketing, or finance, strong quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to manage client relationships and campaign performance. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sr Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global digital advertising technology company. Focuses on managing key brand-direct accounts, providing strategic advisory, driving revenue growth, and ensuring campaign execution. Requires strong client engagement, commercial acumen, and experience in online advertising and programmatic platforms. | — | 0 |
| Sr Business Development Manager (Gaming Outbound) This role is for a Sr. Business Development Manager focused on gaming outbound advertising partnerships in Shanghai. It involves acquiring, building, and cultivating relationships with brands, communicating the value of The Trade Desk's media buying platform, identifying up-selling opportunities, and managing forecasts. Experience in digital advertising, outbound sales, and programmatic platform sales is preferred, as are relationships with decision-makers in the China gaming/apps outbound market. | — | 0 |
| Payroll Specialist The Trade Desk is seeking a Payroll Specialist to support day-to-day tasks for APAC payrolls, collaborate with the Sr. Payroll Specialist, and handle employee payroll queries. Responsibilities include end-to-end payroll processing across 10 APAC countries, data validation, ensuring accurate processing of salary, benefits, and taxes, maintaining data integrity in systems like Workday HCM and CloudPay, preparing reports, and ensuring compliance with regulations and SOX controls. The role requires 3-5 years of payroll experience, basic understanding of payroll principles and local regulations, and proficiency in Excel. | — | 0 |
| Sr Trading Specialist This role focuses on campaign management and optimization within The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform, requiring expertise in large datasets and client support. It is not directly involved in AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Data Partnerships Director Director of Data Partnerships for the SEA region, responsible for shaping and executing strategic data partnerships with retailers, telcos, broadcasters, and FinTech companies to drive commercial impact in digital advertising. The role involves partner management, go-to-market execution, and cross-functional leadership. | — | 0 |
| Director of Growth Solutions The Trade Desk is seeking a Director of Growth Solutions to build and lead a new technical pre-sales function focused on acquiring new advertisers. This player-coach role involves leading a team of Solutions Engineers, defining pre-sales standards, and directly participating in high-leverage deals to drive new logo acquisition and revenue growth within the digital advertising space. | — | 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 |
| Sr Accountant Senior Accountant role at The Trade Desk, focusing on financial accounting, compliance, and tax requirements for China legal entities. Responsibilities include month-end close, statutory reporting, managing third-party providers, and acting as a finance business partner. Requires 7+ years of accounting experience, knowledge of China GAAP and tax regulations, and ERP system proficiency. | — | 0 |
| Lead Associated Account Director (Political) Lead Associated Account Director (Political) role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company specializing in digital advertising. This role focuses on managing client relationships, demonstrating platform value, leading agency client meetings, and developing product solutions based on client needs. It also involves coaching a team of Account Managers and collaborating with internal functional leaders. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of digital advertising experience, with at least 2 years in team management, and strong client relationship, revenue growth, and leadership skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Business Development (CPG) Senior Director, Business Development for CPG clients at The Trade Desk, a global digital advertising technology company. This role focuses on managing strategic client relationships, developing advertising strategies, and driving revenue growth by aligning the company's programmatic advertising platform with client marketing objectives. It involves leading a sales team, collaborating with internal client-facing teams, and understanding evolving client needs to enhance ad buying efficiency and precision. The role requires a strong sales background, experience in online advertising (DSP preferred), team management, and cultivating client relationships, particularly within the CPG sector. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, GTM Operations This role is for a Senior Director of GTM Operations at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on operational excellence, strategic partnership with GTM Sales and Client Services leadership, and driving commercial priorities. It involves shaping go-to-market plans, uncovering trends, surfacing insights, and translating data into strategy. The individual will lead key operational initiatives, manage a PMO for cross-sector programs, and ensure GTM readiness. The role requires strong analytical skills, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to operate autonomously at scale, with a focus on building predictable growth mechanisms and a scalable GTM operating system. | — | 0 |
| Director, Client Service This role is for a Director of Client Service at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The position involves leading a client services team, managing senior channel partner relationships, driving partner success metrics, overseeing campaign operations, and collaborating with Product and Engineering. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in programmatic advertising and managing client-facing teams, with strong analytical and leadership skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. Focuses on managing client accounts, driving revenue, and acting as a platform expert. Requires experience in online advertising/ad tech and strong client-facing skills. | — | 0 |
| VP, Business Development - Agency, Dentsu, Havas, Horizon The Trade Desk is seeking a VP, Business Development to lead global strategic partnerships with key agency groups, driving multi-year growth and revenue. This role involves executive relationship management, building and scaling a global sales organization, shaping partnership strategy, and ensuring seamless integration across departments. The VP will serve as the primary C-suite interface, influencing agency engagement models, guiding commercial negotiations, and translating market needs into product and business strategy. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (CPG) The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. This Business Development Director role focuses on managing and growing strategic relationships with major CPG clients nationally. The role involves understanding client needs, communicating the value of the media buying platform, participating in product roadmap discussions, responding to RFPs, identifying up-selling opportunities, and building internal relationships. The ideal candidate has a strong sales or marketing background in online advertising, experience with major advertising clients, and quantitative and negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Director, Corporate Consolidations This role is for a Director of Corporate FP&A, Corporate Consolidations at The Trade Desk. The primary focus is on financial planning, management reporting, and consolidating financial views of company performance. The role involves partnering with Accounting, GTM Finance, and Finance Systems, preparing financial materials for board meetings, and developing financial insights for executive leadership. It also includes managing consolidation-related planning tools and leading an FP&A team. Experience with AI tools for forecasting and reporting is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Development Director (Independent Agencies) This role is for a Senior Business Development Director focused on independent agencies within the digital advertising platform of The Trade Desk. The responsibilities include developing strategy, building relationships with senior agency leadership, executing growth strategies, negotiating commercial agreements, and communicating the value of the media buying platform. The ideal candidate has 10-15+ years of experience in online advertising, consultative selling, and managing strategic client relationships, with strong quantitative and negotiation skills. | — | 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 |
| Associate Business Development Diretor Associate Business Development Director role at The Trade Desk, focusing on building strategic partnerships with advertisers and agencies in the digital advertising space. Responsibilities include client relationship management, presenting the platform's value proposition, responding to RFPs, negotiating contracts, and identifying up-selling opportunities. Requires extensive experience in digital advertising sales and programmatic environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Workplace Associate This role is for a Senior Workplace Associate responsible for supporting day-to-day office operations, providing a positive and productive workplace experience, and acting as a cultural ambassador. Responsibilities include managing office services, assisting with employee onboarding, organizing events, and ensuring building safety and security. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director Business Development Director in Seoul for The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role focuses on leading commercial efforts, driving partnerships, elevating client relationships, and unlocking revenue opportunities within the Korean market. It requires a proven track record in building relationships, delivering commercial results, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. The role involves managing key accounts, forecasting, strategic initiative execution, and representing the company at industry events. It also requires understanding technical product discussions and advocating for market needs within global teams. | — | 0 |
| Solutions Architect, Anaplan This role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying Anaplan models and applications for accounting and planning functions like revenue accounting, incentive compensation, sales forecasting, and FP&A. It involves system integration, stakeholder collaboration, UI design, project management, and technical support within the Anaplan ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer-Data Engineer Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineer role focused on building and owning complex data pipelines, models, and integrations for analytics, reporting, and internal products within the Technology Operations group. Requires expertise in SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT, and cloud data warehousing technologies like Snowflake and Databricks. Involves technical leadership, mentoring, and ensuring data quality and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Director, Inventory Development This role is focused on business development and strategic partnerships within the ad tech industry, specifically in Audio & CTV inventory. The Director will lead a team to negotiate technical partnerships, build business plans, oversee publisher relationships, and develop long-term strategies for growth and innovation. The role requires strong leadership, business development skills, and an understanding of the media landscape and programmatic advertising. | — | 0 |
| Sr Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global digital advertising technology company. The role focuses on leading client portfolios, providing strategic advice, developing technical solutions, and driving business growth through cross-selling and upselling. It requires strong client relationship management, commercial accountability, and collaboration with internal teams like product and engineering. The position also involves some product roadmap input based on client needs. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Tech/Telco) This role is for a Business Development Director focused on the Tech/Telco sector for The Trade Desk, a global digital advertising platform. The position involves managing strategic client relationships, identifying up-selling opportunities, and contributing to product roadmap discussions based on client needs. It requires a strong background in online advertising sales or marketing, deep understanding of the Tech category, and proven relationship-building skills. | — | 0 |
| GM, Business Development (CPG) This role is for a General Manager of Business Development focused on the CPG category within The Trade Desk, a global technology company specializing in digital advertising. The position involves leading a sales team, managing strategic partnerships, cultivating client relationships, and contributing to product roadmap discussions based on client needs. The ideal candidate has a strong background in online advertising sales and marketing, experience managing sales teams, and proven ability to drive revenue and close deals. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Development Director (CPG) Senior Business Development Director for The Trade Desk, a global technology company and leading independent platform for digital advertising. The role focuses on managing strategic client relationships in the CPG category, developing advertising strategies, and driving revenue growth. It involves partnering with internal teams, providing thought leadership in media buying, and identifying opportunities to enhance client ad buying efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Account Manager Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. Focuses on managing and growing agency accounts, onboarding new customers, identifying growth opportunities, and providing platform expertise and training. Collaborates with Trading and Sales teams, and provides input to Product Management for platform enhancements. Requires client-facing experience, online advertising experience, and proficiency in campaign management and Excel. | — | 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 |
| Senior Software Engineer - OpenPath Senior Software Engineer on the OpenPath team at The Trade Desk, focusing on architecting and building systems for direct publisher integrations and a publisher platform to improve transparency and efficiency in programmatic advertising. | — | 0 |
| Trading Specialist This role is for a Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The specialist will collaborate with account management and business development to drive advertiser performance and account growth. Responsibilities include becoming an expert on the platform (Kokai), troubleshooting campaigns, analyzing data using tools like Excel, Tableau, or Power BI, presenting insights to clients, and consulting on product updates and best practices. The role requires experience in consultative, client-facing work within ad tech, digital marketing, or finance, and hands-on experience managing campaigns in DSPs. The company emphasizes results and efficiency, including the use of AI and other tools. | — | 0 |
| Talent Acquisition Operations Manager The Trade Desk is seeking a Talent Acquisition Operations Manager to manage all operational activities within their Applicant Tracking System (ATS). This role involves system improvements, updates, and working with cross-functional teams to enhance the candidate experience and achieve hiring goals. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of talent acquisition experience and 2+ years managing an ATS. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Services Senior Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining scalable, service-oriented infrastructure solutions for a globally distributed system. The role involves creating self-service tooling and automation to improve product team efficiency and operational health, with elements of SRE mindset including configuration management, capacity modeling, and monitoring. Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, cloud providers, and infrastructure as code is required. | — | 0 |