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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| Senior Benefits Manager Senior Benefits Manager responsible for researching, designing, and managing effective, cost-efficient benefits for the U.S., Canada, and global programs. This includes health and welfare benefits, retirement plans, and various global programs like EAP and Financial Wellness. The role involves vendor management, data-driven decision making, financial analysis, and employee communications. | — | 0 |
| Talent and Performance Management Director The Trade Desk is seeking a Director of Talent and Performance Management to lead their Talent Management Center of Excellence. This role involves designing and implementing performance management strategies, developing a job architecture system, creating succession planning processes, and building career development frameworks. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in HR best practices and a proven ability to drive transformative change. | — | 0 |
| Senior Trading Specialist This role is for a Senior Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves collaborating with account management and business development to provide strategic recommendations, troubleshoot campaign issues, analyze data, and consult clients on platform improvements and best practices. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of consultative, client-facing experience in ad tech or a related data-heavy industry, with hands-on DSP experience. |
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| Senior Counsel, Employment Senior Counsel, Employment role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role provides executional, hands-on employment legal support for North America, covering a broad range of issues from recruiting to litigation. Responsibilities include advising stakeholders, drafting legal documents, managing projects, creating training programs, supporting litigation, analyzing data for insights, monitoring legal developments, and driving day-to-day execution of employment matters. Requires 6+ years of experience, a law degree, and admission to practice in New York. International employment law experience is a plus. | — | 0 |
| GM, Global Sales Learning and Effectiveness Lead the global commercial capability strategy for The Trade Desk's Sales organization, ensuring sellers and sales leaders are equipped to drive revenue growth. This role involves partnering with Sales leadership to identify capability gaps, design development solutions, and improve seller performance across the commercial lifecycle. The GM will translate company strategy, product innovation, and market dynamics into commercial capabilities, build and lead a global team for sales methodology, onboarding, skill development, coaching, and product enablement, and establish a capability framework linked to measurable commercial outcomes. | — | 0 |
| Sr Account Executive, Paris This role is for a Sr. Account Executive at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The role involves accelerating growth through strategic agency partnerships, acting as a platform expert, collaborating cross-functionally, driving product adoption, and analyzing campaign performance. It requires experience in business development, agency sales, and digital advertising, with a strong hunter mindset and advanced knowledge of programmatic advertising. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Development Director (Pharma) Senior Business Development Director for The Trade Desk's Healthcare/Pharmaceutical clients. This role involves managing strategic relationships, cultivating accounts, establishing new relationships, communicating platform value, participating in product roadmap discussions, responding to RFPs, identifying up-selling opportunities, and building internal connections. Requires a proven track record in online advertising sales/marketing, deep understanding of the Healthcare/Pharmaceutical category, and strong quantitative and negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Associate General Counsel, Corporate This role is for an Associate General Counsel, Corporate at The Trade Desk, a global technology company specializing in digital advertising. The position requires extensive experience in corporate law, securities, M&A, and commercial agreements to advise various internal teams and senior leadership. The role involves managing legal aspects of transactions, SEC filings, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance, ensuring practical, business-focused legal solutions in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director Business Development Director role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. Focuses on building strategic partnerships with advertisers and agencies, driving revenue growth, and translating client objectives into media strategies. Requires strong sales experience in digital advertising, programmatic advertising knowledge, and consultative selling skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Client Service Director (Global Agency - Dentsu) This role is for a Senior Client Service Director at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The role involves partnering with sales leads, managing client relationships, developing strategic partnerships with agencies, and fostering innovation. It requires a deep understanding of media, programmatic, data, and technology, with a focus on driving client success and business growth through the TTD platform. The role also involves collaborating with product and engineering teams to ensure client needs are met and developing go-to-market strategies for custom products. | — | 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 |
| Associate General Counsel, Data Licensing This role is for an Associate General Counsel specializing in Data Licensing within The Trade Desk, a digital advertising technology company. The position requires extensive experience in commercial transactions, data licensing, and advising on complex legal issues related to data partnerships and adtech data flows. The attorney will structure, draft, and negotiate agreements, collaborate with various internal teams, and ensure compliance in a risk-tolerant environment. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer - High Performance Computing Senior Software Engineer role focused on high-performance computing and system-level optimization for a large-scale digital advertising platform. The role involves end-to-end ownership of data-focused products, including research, design, development, and maintenance of distributed systems, probabilistic algorithms, and user data infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Sr Trading Specialist This role is for a Sr Trading Specialist in programmatic advertising. The primary responsibilities include managing media campaigns, partnering with cross-functional teams, optimizing strategies, training clients on platform usage, and driving client growth through consulting on campaign planning and performance analysis. The role requires extensive experience in programmatic advertising, strong client relationship skills, excellent communication, time management, troubleshooting, analytical abilities, and quantitative skills with a passion for insights from large datasets. | — | 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 strengthening client relationships, providing platform expertise for campaign performance and pacing, and acting as a trusted consultant to drive client business growth. It involves collaborating with Account Management and Business Development, becoming an expert on the company's platform (Kokai), troubleshooting campaigns, providing feedback to Product Managers, transforming data into insights, presenting to clients, and supporting agency traders. The role requires 3+ years in digital advertising and client-facing roles, with a technical background in online advertising. It emphasizes client relationship management, translating complex topics, data analysis, problem-solving, and time management. The company mentions using AI and emerging tools as a way to improve performance and efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a digital advertising technology company. Focuses on managing and growing client relationships, providing platform insights, and collaborating with internal teams to improve campaigns and drive product enhancements. Requires experience in digital advertising, client-facing roles, and transforming data into actionable recommendations. | — | 0 |
| Principal Product Manager, Pharma Principal Product Manager for Health & Pharma at The Trade Desk, focusing on defining multi-year product strategy, platform capabilities, partnerships, and compliance for healthcare advertisers. Requires deep expertise in digital media, adtech/martech, and pharmaceutical/health media, including regulatory frameworks like HIPAA and FDA guidelines. | — | 0 |
| Sr People Advisory Partner Senior People Advisory Partner role at The Trade Desk, focusing on strategic HR initiatives, employee experience, performance management, and employment law compliance in New Delhi. Requires significant HRBP experience and a strong background in Indian employment law. | — | 0 |
| GM, Public Relations The Trade Desk is seeking a seasoned PR leader to oversee and strengthen its global public relations team, focusing on executional excellence, compelling storytelling, and measurable impact. The role involves owning day-to-day strategy and execution, establishing processes, overseeing media relations, supporting executive and issues communications, leading the PR team, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure alignment and drive accountability. | — | 0 |
| Associate General Counsel Director - APAC Data Licensing Associate General Counsel Director - APAC Data Licensing role at The Trade Desk, focusing on commercial transactions, data partnerships, and licensing in the APAC region. Requires extensive legal experience in digital advertising and international law. | — | 0 |
| Staff Product Manager, Pharma The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Product Manager for their Pharma vertical. This role requires deep expertise in pharma media and advertising, including HCP and DTC campaign workflows, specialized data partnerships, and regulatory frameworks. The product manager will own the product vision and roadmap for pharma and health media capabilities, manage complex integrations, define requirements for audience segmentation and measurement, build compliance frameworks, and collaborate with engineering and data science teams on data architectures. The role also involves representing the company externally and anticipating regulatory shifts. | — | 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 |
| Senior Programmatic Account Manager This role is for a Senior Programmatic Account Manager at The Trade Desk, a digital advertising technology company. The role involves managing client accounts, acting as a consultant, and collaborating with sales and product teams to grow client business and improve the platform. It requires client-facing experience, analytical skills, and expertise in online advertising or SaaS platforms. | — | 0 |
| Inventory Development Director This role focuses on developing and managing partnerships within the CTV, App, and Web ecosystems in Korea for The Trade Desk, a digital advertising platform. The Director will establish programmatic inventory access, ensure supply quality, drive monetization, and troubleshoot operational issues. Key responsibilities include contract negotiations, educating partners on Supply Path Optimization (SPO), and serving as a subject-matter expert on Korean supply. The role requires strong programmatic experience, technical understanding of ad-tech, a network of publisher contacts, and quantitative/negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Business Strategy and Activation Director This role is for a Business Strategy and Activation Director in the digital advertising technology space. The primary focus is on operational excellence, strategic partnership with sales and client services, driving business initiatives, and analyzing trends to provide actionable insights. It involves collaborating with various departments, ensuring data integrity for forecasting, and managing projects to support commercial priorities. The role requires strong analytical, project management, and stakeholder management skills, with experience in sales operations or business operations in a technology-forward organization. | — | 0 |
| Senior Trading Specialist This role is for a Senior Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on client services, strategy development, data-driven insights, and campaign optimization using the company's platform. It involves managing client relationships, troubleshooting technical issues, and collaborating with internal teams. The position requires extensive experience in client-facing roles within ad tech or data-heavy industries, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and advanced Excel proficiency. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Data & Distributed Systems Senior Software Engineer focused on data and distributed systems for a global digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include leading the design and evolution of feed definitions, unifying ingest/egress paths, maximizing code reusability, minimizing latency, and driving self-service provisioning. The role involves working with massive datasets in real-time and building globally scalable, reliable systems. | — | 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 |
| Senior Revenue Accounting This role supports the revenue accounting function, focusing on revenue recognition, US GAAP compliance (ASC 606), financial reporting, and internal controls for a public company. Responsibilities include month-end close, variance analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Partnerships Manager This role focuses on driving business expansion in Japan through data partnerships within the digital advertising technology space. It involves executing a data partnerships strategy, aligning with commercial teams on go-to-market narratives, identifying and driving adoption of data marketplace offerings, and collaborating with various internal teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in data, adtech, SaaS, or digital media, with a strong track record in building and scaling commercial partnerships and working with data platforms and ecosystems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Partnerships Manager This role focuses on developing and executing data partnership strategies within the Australian and New Zealand region for The Trade Desk, a digital advertising technology company. The Senior Data Partnerships Manager will work with commercial teams, product, legal, and finance to identify, secure, and grow strategic partnerships with retail, audience, and measurement partners. The role requires experience in data platforms, adtech, and commercial partnership building, with a strong emphasis on translating technical data concepts into business value and driving commercial growth. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Technology) This role is for a Business Development Director in the technology sector, focusing on strategic relationships with major tech clients in the digital advertising space. The individual will be responsible for cultivating accounts, owning client relationships, communicating the value of the media buying platform, driving measurement-led conversations, and identifying up-selling opportunities. The role involves close collaboration with product, marketing, and revenue teams, and requires strong sales, negotiation, and communication skills. While the company uses AI in its platform, this specific role is focused on business development and client relationships, not direct AI/ML development. | — | 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 |
| Staff Android Platform Engineer, VenturaOS Staff Android Platform Engineer responsible for developing platform software for Android devices, focusing on advancing technology and incorporating new design elements. This role involves close collaboration with OEMs in hardware or SoC integration to ensure top-notch performance, leading board bring-up, designing Android Framework components, creating BSPs, and optimizing system performance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive Senior Account Executive role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on managing and growing strategic client relationships within the Retail Vertical, developing partnerships with marketing decision-makers, and identifying growth opportunities. The position involves close collaboration with internal teams and contributing client needs to product development. | — | 0 |
| Staff Business Intelligence Analyst Staff Business Intelligence Analyst role focused on driving data-driven decision making for Product and Engineering teams through advanced analytics, predictive modeling, and KPI analysis. Requires strong SQL/R/Python, BI tools, and Adtech experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Database Engineer Senior Database Engineer to support and maintain Microsoft SQL Server databases for a global technology company in the digital advertising space. Responsibilities include administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, security, and disaster recovery for high-volume, large-scale systems. | — | 0 |
| Front Desk and Workplace Associate This role is for a Front Desk and Workplace Associate at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The position involves acting as a cultural ambassador, providing first-class hospitality, and managing front-of-house operations. Responsibilities include greeting employees and visitors, managing building access, coordinating office communications and events, and assisting with onboarding and morale activities. The ideal candidate has experience in a fast-paced environment, excellent customer service and communication skills, and a proactive attitude. | — | 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 |
| 2026 Australia Software Engineering Internship Internship role focused on software engineering with project ownership, mentorship, and exposure to various technologies including machine learning/AI, but not as the core craft. | — | 0 |
| General Manager, Inventory Management This role is for a General Manager of Inventory Management at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves leading a team of Inventory Managers, overseeing publisher and SSP partnerships, driving improvements, and collaborating with Product and Inventory Development teams. It requires strong leadership, extensive experience in ad tech/media, relationship building, industry insight, and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Director, Associate General Counsel- Identity and Strategic Data Initiatives This role is for an experienced commercial transactions attorney to provide legal leadership on strategic initiatives involving advertising identity, data, and monetization. The attorney will gain technical understanding of adtech data flows, negotiate deals, advise on product developments, and manage legal risks related to licensing, IP, commercial, data security, and privacy laws. The role requires 12+ years of experience and strong judgment, negotiation, and collaboration skills. | — | 0 |
| Lead Staff Software Engineer, Front End - Deal Manager Experiences Lead Staff Software Engineer focused on front-end development for deal management experiences within a large-scale digital advertising platform. The role involves technical leadership, project execution, and people management, with a focus on building user interfaces and data-focused products. | — | 0 |
| Vice President, Business Development - Independent Agencies The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role is for a Vice President of Business Development focused on independent media agencies. The VP will lead global relationships, own executive engagement, integrate agency feedback into the product roadmap, drive commercial outcomes, and orchestrate cross-functional execution. The role requires deep knowledge of independent agency operations and economics, executive relationship management, commercial acumen, and experience shaping product strategies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Database Engineer Senior Database Engineer to support and maintain Microsoft SQL Server databases for a large-scale digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, security, and disaster recovery. Requires extensive experience with MS SQL, performance optimization, and OLTP environments. Experience with distributed systems, AWS, and PostgreSQL is a plus. Experience with compliance programs like SOX or PCI is also a plus. | — | 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 |
| Business Intelligence Analyst II This role focuses on developing cross-functional data models, core business metrics, and self-service analytics capabilities within a global technology company specializing in digital advertising. The Business Intelligence Analyst II will design and maintain scalable data solutions, develop analytical frameworks for experimentation and monitoring, and anticipate data access patterns. They will partner with Business Analysts and Data Engineers, work with engineering teams on data model impacts, and champion data standards and governance. The role requires a quantitative education, 5+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or Business Intelligence, strong SQL and data warehousing skills (Snowflake, Databricks, Vertica), experience with dbt, Python/R, and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker). AdTech experience is preferred. The candidate should be curious, a lifelong learner, a fearless advocate for change, comfortable collaborating globally, and adept at communicating across technical and business teams. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Geo Targeting Team Senior Software Engineer role focused on Geo Targeting within a global technology company specializing in digital advertising. The role involves end-to-end ownership of product strategy, design, building, and delivery for clients, working on large-scale distributed systems, petabyte-scale data challenges, and potentially machine learning. Requires strong computer science fundamentals and proficiency in languages like C#, .Net, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience with Spark and Scala. | — | 0 |
| Staff Product Manager, Infra Generalist The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Product Manager for its Infrastructure team. This role will focus on developing and expanding global platform foundational technologies, including on-prem compute, storage solutions, and GPU architectures. The Product Manager will own the roadmap for modernizing core systems, working with engineering and operations to optimize on-prem environments, architect compute clusters, and integrate GPU advancements. Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors is key to translating infrastructure needs into actionable strategies for reliability, performance, and efficiency. The role requires experience in infrastructure, security, or platform domains, with a focus on scalable systems, data fluency for observability, and strong communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Custom Solutions Staff Software Engineer role focused on designing and building custom, end-to-end systems and backend services for The Trade Desk's programmatic advertising platform. The role involves optimizing data processing, integrating models, and ensuring scalability and reliability for global-scale workloads. | — | 0 |