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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| Executive Assistant Executive Assistant role supporting a CRO at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. Responsibilities include managing complex schedules, travel, expenses, and special projects, requiring strong organizational and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Associate Account Director This role is for an Associate Account Director at The Trade Desk, a digital advertising platform. The role focuses on client services, account management, and driving growth for enterprise accounts. Responsibilities include communicating the platform's value, understanding competitive differentiators, acting as a consultative partner, onboarding new customers, identifying growth opportunities, becoming an expert on the platform, providing client training, and collaborating with Product Management on feature enhancements. The role requires significant digital advertising and client-facing experience, with a focus on building relationships and recommending strategies. While the company uses technology and processes large datasets, the core function of this role is client relationship management and business development within the advertising technology sector, not direct AI/ML development or research. |
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| Digital Marketing Manager - Programmatic This role is for a Digital Marketing Manager specializing in programmatic advertising on The Trade Desk platform. The focus is on designing, activating, and optimizing B2B programmatic campaigns to drive measurable outcomes, partnering with various internal teams and external partners. Responsibilities include campaign strategy, execution, optimization, data analysis, reporting, and collaboration. Requires 5+ years of programmatic trading experience, deep knowledge of The Trade Desk, and strong analytical skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Programmatic Account Manager This role is for a Senior Programmatic Account Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in the digital advertising space. The role focuses on managing and growing key agency accounts, providing strategic recommendations, data-driven insights, and exceptional client service. The individual will become an expert on The Trade Desk platform, offer guidance to clients, provide training, and contribute to platform enhancements by providing feedback to Product Management. The role requires strong client relationship building, analytical abilities, and experience in online advertising and DSP platforms. | — | 0 |
| Order Management Analyst This role is for an Order Management Analyst within the Global Revenue Team at The Trade Desk, a digital advertising technology company. The analyst will be responsible for customer onboarding, contract operationalization, pricing configuration, and billing readiness, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and scalability. They will partner with various internal teams like Sales, Legal, and Finance, and external stakeholders to support revenue growth and maintain internal controls. Key responsibilities include reviewing contracts, flagging non-standard terms, verifying compliance, facilitating customer onboarding and billing, providing reports, and identifying process improvements. | — | 0 |
| Brand Marketing Manager This role is for a Brand Marketing Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The manager will drive strategy and execution of integrated marketing efforts to strengthen awareness, consideration, and adoption of The Trade Desk platform. Responsibilities include creating narratives, developing go-to-market strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, leading content development, tracking marketing performance, managing events and sponsorships, and contributing to team culture. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in brand marketing, familiarity with the ad tech landscape, strong storytelling abilities, and experience with productivity and sales tracking tools. | — | 0 |
| Anaplan Systems Analyst The Finance Systems Analyst will be responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of Anaplan solutions, working with business teams to design, develop, and implement solutions and new features within the Anaplan platform. This role involves system maintenance, building Anaplan solutions, preparing documentation, identifying automation opportunities, performing systems analysis, and collaborating with business users for testing and training. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive (Mid-Market Growth) Senior Account Executive role focused on growing existing mid-market advertiser partnerships and agency relationships within The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include strategic planning, senior relationship building, account growth, and cross-functional collaboration to drive expansion and client success. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Workplace Services The Trade Desk is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Workplace Services to lead workplace operations and team performance within one of their major office environments. This role is responsible for delivering a best-in-class workplace experience that supports employee productivity, collaboration, culture, and business growth. The leader balances strategic thinking with operational excellence, oversees complex day-to-day operations, and develops scalable workplace programs as offices grow in size and complexity. The Senior Manager acts as a cultural ambassador, brings a hospitality-forward mindset, and partners closely with Regional Workplace leadership, Real Estate, People teams, IT, and senior business stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Manager, IT Systems Manager, IT Systems role focused on overseeing global corporate IT collaboration platforms, managing a team of engineers, and driving enhancements for systems like Zoom Rooms and Microsoft Copilot. The role involves strategic thinking, team leadership, and direct engagement with technologies to support business needs and collaboration requirements. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Political & Advocacy) The Trade Desk is seeking a Business Development Director for the Political & Advocacy Sector. This role involves leading the full sales cycle, from prospecting to deal negotiation and campaign execution, focusing on programmatic advertising across various channels. The director will act as a thought leader, providing strategic advice to clients by mapping AI-driven platform capabilities to their campaign goals and offering feedback to the Product team for the political-specific roadmap. | — | 0 |
| Sr Workplace Associate The Trade Desk is seeking a Sr Workplace Associate to join their Workplace Services team. This role supports day-to-day office operations to provide a positive, safe, and productive workplace experience, acting as a cultural ambassador with a customer-centric approach. Responsibilities include managing high-volume services, supporting projects, fostering collaboration, and ensuring end-to-end execution of assigned programs. The role requires excellent organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a focus on hospitality and continuous improvement of workplace programs and services. | — | 0 |
| Senior Accountant Senior Accountant, SEC Reporting & Equity role responsible for accounting, reporting, and disclosures related to stock-based compensation (SBC) and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). This role involves monthly close activities, journal entries, variance analysis, general ledger reconciliations, preparing disclosures for SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, Proxy), interfacing with external auditors, assisting with SOX compliance, and researching technical accounting issues related to equity. | — | 0 |
| Director, Inventory Development Director, Inventory Development role at The Trade Desk, focusing on building and managing relationships with publisher organizations to drive growth in digital advertising. This involves strategic business planning, evangelizing industry standards, and leading contract negotiations. Requires significant programmatic experience in publisher business development. | — | 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 |
| Business Development Director This role is for a Business Development Director in the Netherlands for The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The role involves scaling strategic partnerships with agencies and clients, managing the full partnership lifecycle, and driving revenue growth. It requires experience in advertising sales or partnerships, deep knowledge of the Dutch market, strong commercial acumen, and excellent communication skills. The role is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Business Development GM (Holdco) This Business Development GM role at The Trade Desk focuses on managing and growing revenue performance with a key client (Omnicom Legacy Agency). Responsibilities include serving as the primary point of contact for client leadership, accelerating engagement, optimizing client activity, leading commercial programs, shaping US strategy for growth channels, and ideating new commercial concepts. The ideal candidate is a senior sales individual with a proven track record in sales and marketing, experience managing senior sellers, a deep understanding of the agency business, strong relationship-building and negotiation skills, and existing relationships with key decision-makers. | — | 0 |
| Sr Enterprise Salesforce Engineer This role is for a Sr. Enterprise Salesforce Engineer focused on designing, developing, and optimizing the Salesforce Sales Cloud platform. Responsibilities include technical design, implementation of Apex and LWC components, integrations, automation, and leading technical projects. While the role is primarily focused on Salesforce engineering, it has a preferred experience with Salesforce-native AI tools, suggesting an exploratory interest in AI within the enterprise context. | — | 0 |
| Director, Business Development - Agency This role is for a Director of Business Development at The Trade Desk, focusing on strategic agency partners in Madrid. The primary responsibilities include developing new relationships, cultivating existing ones, signing new agreements and renewals, managing revenue targets and pipelines, and representing the company at industry events. The role requires experience in online advertising, strong sales and negotiation skills, and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally to drive business growth. | — | 0 |
| Associate Trading Director This role is for an Associate Trading Director at The Trade Desk, a digital advertising platform. The primary responsibilities include managing key client accounts, providing strategic advice, demonstrating platform value, leading client meetings, developing client relationships, creating custom analyses, identifying new uses for data, and contributing to product development by liaising between clients and the product team. The ideal candidate is a data-driven leader with strong analytical skills, media analytics experience, and proficiency in SQL and Snowflake. | — | 0 |
| Lead Sr Staff Software Engineer - Front End Fundamentals Lead Senior Staff Software Engineer responsible for the platform UI framework, shared design patterns, and frontend frameworks for The Trade Desk's core workflows. This role involves technical leadership, people management, and end-to-end ownership of foundational user experiences for traders on the platform. | — | 0 |
| Solutions Consulting Director The Solutions Consulting Director at The Trade Desk will collaborate with commercial and product teams to identify and deliver tailored solutions for clients, driving revenue growth and deepening partnerships. This role involves working closely with various internal teams and clients to extend the platform's capabilities and deliver measurable business results. The ideal candidate is a seasoned client consultant with strong problem-solving skills, fluency in the platform's technical capabilities, and a deep understanding of the agency and brand landscape. | — | 0 |
| Programmatic Trading Specialist This role is for a Programmatic Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves providing strategic recommendations, troubleshooting campaigns, analyzing data, and consulting with clients to drive performance and account growth on the company's advertising platform. It requires client-facing experience, strong quantitative skills, and the ability to analyze large datasets. | — | 0 |
| Senior Commercial Finance Analyst, Deal Desk Senior Commercial Finance Analyst role focused on managing the deal lifecycle, collaborating with sales and cross-functional teams, ensuring compliance with policies, and performing financial analysis for deal viability within The Trade Desk's global advertising platform. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer I Software Engineer I at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves implementing full-stack software solutions, including databases, back-end development, API design, UI architectures, and cloud deployment. Responsibilities include acting as a subject matter expert on measurement solutions, monitoring deployed systems, writing automated tests, designing database and GraphQL schemas, identifying and implementing new measurement solutions, and collaborating with product managers and designers. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and working knowledge of SQL databases, object-oriented programming, API design, JavaScript/UI frameworks, and cloud infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role focuses on designing, building, and owning full lifecycle software development in a distributed system environment, with a focus on large-scale data processing and microservices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Workplace Associate This role is for a Senior Workplace Associate at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The primary responsibilities include supporting daily office operations, providing a positive and safe workplace experience, managing invoices, coordinating building access, addressing maintenance issues, and assisting with internal events and onboarding. The role requires strong organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a focus on customer service and a proactive attitude. It is not an AI/ML-focused role. | — | 0 |
| Programmatic Trading Specialist This role focuses on programmatic trading within the digital advertising space, requiring expertise in the company's platform to provide strategic recommendations, troubleshoot campaigns, and analyze performance data. The specialist will act as a consultant to clients, translating complex data into actionable insights and collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global digital advertising technology company. The role involves managing key advertiser accounts, acting as a consultant to clients, developing strategies, and providing feedback to Product Management on platform improvements. Requires 5+ years of client-facing experience and expertise in online advertising or SAAS platforms is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing, developing, and maintaining backend services and system components, including data processing workflows, scalable data access layers, and cloud-native services. The role involves API contract design, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and application instrumentation for observability. | — | 0 |
| Sr Brand Marketing Manager This role is for a Sr Brand Marketing Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The position focuses on translating regional commercial priorities into executable marketing programs across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and selected CEE markets. Responsibilities include integrated planning, leading program delivery, content creation and curation, sales alignment, strategy contribution, and stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate has 8-10 years of marketing experience, a deep understanding of the B2B sales cycle and programmatic advertising, and fluent German and English. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Observability & IRM Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining observability and incident response tooling for a large-scale digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include developing incident management automation, evaluating logging stacks, and extending internal developer portals. Requires experience with production infrastructure, distributed systems, and observability concepts. | — | 0 |
| Senior Stock Plan Administrator The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Stock Plan Administrator to manage global equity programs, including stock options, RSUs, and ESPP. Responsibilities include processing grants, vesting, exercises, tax reporting, and employee inquiries, while ensuring compliance with SOX procedures and SEC regulations. Requires 5+ years of experience and familiarity with equity administration software. | — | 0 |
| Senior Programmatic Trading Specialist This role is for a Senior Programmatic Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The role involves collaborating with internal teams and clients to drive advertiser performance, troubleshoot campaigns, analyze data, and provide platform expertise. It requires experience in ad tech or data-heavy industries, strong quantitative and client-facing skills, and platform knowledge. | — | 0 |
| Trading Specialist This role is for a Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on providing strategic recommendations, analyzing campaign performance, and acting as a platform expert to clients. It involves collaborating with account management, troubleshooting campaigns, analyzing data with tools like Excel and Power BI, and presenting insights to stakeholders. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of client-facing experience in ad tech, digital marketing, or finance, with strong quantitative and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Workplace Manager This role is for a Workplace Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The manager will oversee daily operations for an office location, focusing on creating a 'best in class' workplace experience. Responsibilities include managing vendor services, driving communications, building stakeholder relations, and identifying improvement opportunities. The role requires strong hospitality, customer-centricity, independent work, project management, and excellent communication and mentorship skills. The manager will lead efforts in employee/guest experience, office communications, facilities, space planning, culture activation, events, and shipping/receiving. They will also manage vendor relationships, budgets, and special projects, while assessing office morale and ensuring a safe and secure workplace. | — | 0 |
| Brand Art Director The Trade Desk is seeking a Brand Art Director to shape and scale its visual brand identity across all channels and formats. This role involves partnering with various teams to create brand-consistent creative for campaigns, programs, and events, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in developing creative work for global brands, a strong brand-thinking approach, and proficiency in design tools, with a curiosity for AI tools to accelerate processes. | — | 0 |
| Technical Account Manager (Agency) Technical Account Manager for a digital advertising platform, focusing on post-sale technical relationships, integrations, and driving revenue growth through technical consultation and custom solution development. | — | 0 |
| Director, Inventory Development Director, Inventory Development role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. Focuses on building and managing publisher relationships, strategic business plans, and driving adoption of industry standards and identity strategies within the programmatic advertising ecosystem. Requires significant experience in publisher business development and programmatic advertising. | — | 0 |
| Sr People Advisory Partner This role is for a Senior People Advisory Partner at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The position focuses on strategic HR initiatives, supporting business leaders with people strategies, and ensuring a positive employee experience. Key responsibilities include managing complex employee issues, championing high performance, providing recommendations on performance measures, and leveraging employment law expertise to mitigate risk. The role requires significant experience as an HR Business Partner with a strong background in employment law in the SEA region. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Partnerships Manager (Audience) Senior Manager role focused on managing third-party audience data partnerships for a digital advertising platform, translating strategy into execution, and supporting cross-functional teams. Requires experience in partnership management with an emphasis on data for targeting. | — | 0 |
| Sr Site Reliability Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and scaling a global network platform across physical datacenters and multi-cloud environments. The role involves network automation, troubleshooting complex issues, and improving operational excellence. Experience with Kubernetes networking, load balancers, and infrastructure-as-code is required. Proficiency in Python or Go for automation and experience integrating AI tools into engineering processes are also mentioned. | — | 0 |
| Director, Associate General Counsel, Corporate Privacy This role is for a Senior Privacy Attorney focused on global workforce privacy strategy and compliance programs. It involves advising on privacy, data protection, and AI laws as they relate to workforce data, and partnering with various teams to ensure lawful and scalable use of data. The role also includes privacy diligence for vendors processing employee data. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on Marketplace Quality Engineering within The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. The role involves building systems to assess, measure, and optimize supply quality, including deduplication, supply path analysis, and quality modeling. It requires strong backend and distributed systems experience, proficiency in C#/.NET, and working with large datasets in real-time. The impact is directly measurable on advertiser outcomes and platform economics. | — | 0 |
| Sr Enterprise Engineer - Salesforce This role is for a Sr. Enterprise Salesforce Engineer focused on designing, developing, and optimizing the Salesforce Sales Cloud platform. The engineer will work with Apex, LWC, and automation tools to build scalable solutions, integrations, and drive automation across sales processes. While the role mentions 'Agentforce or Salesforce-native AI tools' as preferred experience, the core responsibilities are centered around Salesforce platform engineering, not AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Data Partnerships Director Director, Data Partnerships focused on Commerce to build and scale the commerce data ecosystem for The Trade Desk's growth. This role involves defining and executing partnership strategies with commerce platforms, retailers, and tech providers to connect media exposure to purchasing behavior, enabling closed-loop measurement. Responsibilities include managing partnerships, identifying opportunities for purchase signals, leading negotiations, partnering with sales teams, and understanding the commerce media landscape. | — | 0 |
| Lead Senior Full‑Stack Software Engineer, Rapid Customer Enablement Lead Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer for the Customer Success Excellence (CSX) team, focusing on delivering high-value, tactical feature work across The Trade Desk platform. This hybrid role involves technical leadership in design and coding, as well as people management of a small engineering team, driving agile practices and customer-focused solutions. | — | 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 |
| 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 |