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).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Applied Scientist Staff Applied Scientist role focused on researching and developing end-to-end ML/deep learning forecasting models for advertising campaign lifecycle, involving signal collection, feature construction, model evaluation, and deployment in collaboration with engineering teams. | Post-train | 7 |
| Staff Applied Scientist Staff Applied Scientist role focused on researching and developing end-to-end ML/deep learning forecasting models for advertising campaign lifecycle, involving signal collection, feature construction, model evaluation, and deployment in collaboration with engineering teams. | Post-train | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, Audience Senior Product Manager for Audience team, focusing on defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap for next-generation audience targeting, segmentation, and insights tools. The role involves designing and owning Agentic-AI product workflows where AI agents autonomously identify, segment, and activate high-value audiences. Requires end-to-end execution, deep partnership with Engineering and Data Science, and operating as a strategic leader across APAC and globally. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Staff Product Manager, Generalist Product Manager role focused on improving the developer experience by defining and implementing AI strategy and tools for engineers. This includes understanding developer needs, industry trends, and building AI solutions to enhance efficiency and innovation within the software development lifecycle. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Applied Scientist Staff Applied Scientist role focused on building and scaling AI/ML systems for digital advertising, including control systems, recommendation engines, and time series models. Requires strong ML, statistics, and experimental design skills, with experience in end-to-end project ownership from research to production. | Ship | 7 |
| Applied Scientist II Applied Scientist II role focused on end-to-end ownership of identity products within a large-scale digital advertising platform. The role involves designing, researching, building, and delivering data-focused products using massive datasets and cutting-edge data processing frameworks and scalable algorithms. It also includes acting as a business partner ambassador for identity products. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Price Optimization & Bidding Software Engineer II on the Performance Automation team, focused on developing optimization tools for advertising campaigns. This role involves enhancing machine learning model development, creating tools for data scientists' model iteration, experimenting with training architectures, and integrating models into low-latency bidding infrastructure. It also includes developing debugging and analytical tools for real-time system monitoring and adjustment. | DataServe | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist , Channel Growth Senior Data Scientist role focused on designing, building, and scaling data-driven solutions for forecasting, pacing, and recommendation systems in emerging channels. The role involves developing advanced ML/DL models, optimizing algorithms, and collaborating with engineering and product teams for end-to-end ownership from research to production. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Applied Scientist , Inventory & Marketplace Quality Staff Applied Scientist role focused on building and productionizing statistical and machine learning models for fraud detection, invalid traffic, and inventory quality in the digital advertising marketplace. The role involves technical ownership of the data science roadmap, designing and deploying models, defining metrics, and developing analytical frameworks. It also requires cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product teams, and leadership/mentorship of other data scientists. The position emphasizes end-to-end project ownership in adversarial, large-scale environments. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Sr AI Engineer Senior AI Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and deploying internal AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, and agentic systems to improve productivity and streamline workflows within The Trade Desk. The role involves end-to-end ownership, collaboration with stakeholders, and AI enablement across the company. | Agent | 7 |
| Analyst II, Commercial Intelligence & Analytics This role supports commercial analytics and insight generation for sales and client services teams, focusing on translating business needs into scalable analytical deliverables and insight pipelines. It involves partnering with engineering teams to embed analytics into workflows and tools, using AI/LLM-assisted tools to enhance analytical speed and quality, and communicating findings to drive business impact. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Account Manager This role focuses on managing the post-sale technical relationship for strategic agency accounts, translating company initiatives through streamlined technical operations. It involves consulting on measurement strategy, client technology stacks, and leading the development of custom solutions including AI and agentic workflow solutions. The role requires strong technical consulting, project management, and relationship management skills, with a working knowledge of AI and agentic workflows. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Content Designer (API) Senior Technical Content Designer (API) at The Trade Desk, focusing on creating technical content for developers and integration partners. The role involves architecting and writing documentation for APIs, SDKs, and integration guides, with an emphasis on structure and precision for both human readers and AI-assisted workflows. Responsibilities include designing content architecture, implementing conditional content strategies, updating documentation in Git repositories, contributing to content governance, conducting UX evaluations, and collaborating on authoring toolchain improvements. The role requires strong technical aptitude, information architecture mindset, and excellent writing and communication skills, with experience in docs-as-code environments and structured authoring principles. | — | 5 |
| Platform Support Coordinator This role provides application support for a digital advertising platform, ensuring issues are addressed within SLAs. Responsibilities include maintaining the ticketing system, troubleshooting technical issues, assisting users, and contributing to the knowledge base. The role involves using AI tools to improve efficiency and requires strong problem-solving and communication skills. | — | 5 |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Commercial Intelligence and Analytics This role focuses on building and maintaining production systems that leverage AI and LLM capabilities to provide commercial intelligence and analytics for internal teams, particularly Sales and Client Services. The engineer will design, develop, and deploy scalable data systems, insight pipelines, and automated workflows, integrating AI/LLM features to improve decision-making, prioritization, and operational efficiency. The role emphasizes the engineering lifecycle from requirements to production, ensuring reliability, explainability, and impact of the delivered intelligence systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Director of Design Technology This role leads the technical design practice within a global UX Design organization, focusing on AI capabilities, innovation, and tooling. The Director will shape the design system, lead prototyping infrastructure, and develop AI tooling strategy to enable designers to move faster and ship with greater confidence. Responsibilities include evaluating and implementing AI tools across the design lifecycle, building an AI tooling roadmap, and developing frameworks for responsible AI use in design. The role also involves bridging design and engineering, leading a team, and ensuring design excellence at scale. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr. Staff Product Manager, Revenue Products This role is for a Sr. Staff Product Manager focused on Revenue Products within The Trade Desk. The primary responsibility is to define product strategy, roadmaps, and drive execution for mission-critical revenue products that power the global go-to-market organization. The role involves partnering with GTM, Engineering, and Data teams to translate business problems into AI-native product solutions and intelligent tooling, aiming to improve productivity, decision-making, and operational scale. It emphasizes a modern, composable architecture approach and data-driven decision-making, with a focus on building scalable platforms and workflows. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Technical Analyst - FP&A This role is within FP&A and bridges Finance and technical teams. It focuses on modernizing and automating finance workflows, improving forecast accuracy using statistical and ML approaches, and building tooling for better decision-making. The role involves automating manual processes, developing and operationalizing models for forecasting, creating internal FP&A tools, partnering cross-functionally, designing data pipelines, and using AI tooling responsibly for development acceleration. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist II This Data Scientist II role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable graph-based algorithms and statistical models for large-scale datasets. The role involves developing custom data science solutions, analyzing data, validating third-party data, and automating workflows. The primary focus is on data engineering and building data-driven products within the advertising technology domain. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Decisioning Workflows Senior Software Engineer role focused on building decisioning workflows and recommendation systems within a large-scale digital advertising platform. The role involves developing scalable systems, collaborating with data scientists, and working with technologies like C#, Python, Databricks, and agentic programming. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager, Audience Product Manager for Audience team, responsible for defining vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution of audience and insights products. This work increasingly relies on Agentic-AI workflows to identify and reach high-value consumers. Requires collaboration with Engineering, Data Science, and Business teams, gathering customer requirements, and bringing products to life. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Product Manager Product Manager for Identity products, focusing on identity quality, frequency management, and privacy-first innovation in digital advertising. Responsibilities include defining product strategy, owning roadmaps, partnering with Data Science, driving cross-functional execution, and shipping iteratively. Requires experience in ad tech, data analysis, and communication. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves end-to-end ownership of scalable technology solutions, working with a multi-cloud environment and microservices architecture. The team develops client-facing products using .Net/.Net Core, Javascript (React), gRPC, REST API’s, Docker, and Kubernetes, and big data processing backends using Apache Spark and Flink. The role emphasizes quality, automated testing, continuous monitoring, and exploring new AI-powered tools. Experience with cloud platforms, SQL, and data analytics tools is preferred. The company values learning, innovation, and solving complex problems. | — | 5 |
| Trading Specialist This role is a strategic and consultative trading specialist in programmatic advertising. The specialist will advise clients on campaign planning, measurement, and optimization, identify growth opportunities, and develop strategies. They will work closely with Account Management and Business Development, translate complex data into actionable insights, and train clients on the platform. The role involves using AI-enabled tools to improve productivity and experimenting with new technologies and AI applications to drive innovation and tangible improvements. | — | 2 |
| Senior Business Development Manager (Gaming&Apps) Senior Business Development Manager role focused on building strategic partnerships with China outbound advertisers and agencies in the gaming and apps vertical for The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include client relationship management, sales, forecasting, and understanding market differentiators. | — | 0 |
| Workplace Associate This role is for a Workplace Associate at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The associate will support daily office operations, manage access, respond to maintenance issues, coordinate office communications, assist with onboarding, and organize events. The role requires strong organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills, with at least 1 year of experience in a fast-paced office environment. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Pharma) This role is for a Business Development Director focused on the Healthcare/Pharmaceutical sector within The Trade Desk, a digital advertising platform. The responsibilities include managing key client relationships, collaborating with internal teams, responding to RFPs, identifying up-selling opportunities, and participating in product roadmap discussions based on client needs. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in online advertising sales/marketing, a deep understanding of the pharma category, and strong relationship-building and negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Trading Specialist The Trade Desk is seeking a Trading Specialist in Tokyo to manage campaigns, optimize strategies using data analysis, and provide strategic insights to clients. This role involves mastering the platform, collaborating with internal teams, and shaping product enhancements. | — | 0 |
| Trading Analyst This role focuses on optimizing digital advertising campaigns using data analysis and platform expertise. The Trading Analyst will translate data signals into actionable strategies to drive client growth and provide data-driven insights to clients and internal teams. The role also involves collaborating with Product Management to define features and drive platform enhancements. | — | 0 |
| Sr Trading Specialist The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role is for a Sr Trading Specialist in Seoul, focusing on reaching the right audiences across the open internet. The company emphasizes solving meaningful challenges at a global scale with massive datasets. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. This Business Development Director role in Taiwan will lead commercial efforts, cultivate strategic partnerships with top clients, and drive long-term growth through a consultative approach. The role involves managing relationships with advertisers and agencies, forecasting, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. It requires a proven track record in business development and sales within the Taiwan advertising ecosystem, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to translate data into commercial strategies. The role also involves engaging in technical product discussions and representing the company at industry events. | — | 0 |
| Director, Digital Marketing Director of Digital Marketing for North America at The Trade Desk, focusing on media strategy, digital marketing execution, and team leadership to drive brand awareness, engagement, and revenue. This role involves managing paid digital channels, audience segmentation, budgets, and vendor relationships, with a global scope for shaping best practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on architecting, designing, developing, and optimizing deployment automation tools and frameworks for microservices on Kubernetes. Responsibilities include developing internal tools, leading collaboration on deployment strategies, implementing monitoring systems, driving process improvements, producing documentation, partnering with SRE/Infrastructure/Security teams, evaluating emerging technologies, and mentoring junior engineers. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director - Strategic Accounts This role is for a Business Development Director focused on strategic accounts in the digital advertising technology space. The primary responsibilities involve leading business development strategies, driving growth in client relationships, developing and scaling brand partnerships, crafting Joint Business Plans, and communicating the company's value proposition. The role requires expertise in the online advertising landscape, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to manage long sales cycles. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and owning the Open TTD platform, which connects advertisers, data providers, and inventory sellers to The Trade Desk's DSP ecosystem. Responsibilities include designing and building scalable web experiences, contributing to backend services and APIs, collaborating with product and design teams, and driving technical quality and architecture evolution. Requires strong frontend and full-stack development skills, experience with modern React, RESTful/GraphQL APIs, and backend services (e.g., C#). | — | 0 |
| Director, Client Services The Trade Desk is seeking a Director, Client Services in New Delhi to lead client relationships and provide strategic technical advisory for their digital advertising platform. This role involves managing senior clients, partnering with leadership on business strategy, providing thought leadership, and growing business through cross-selling and upselling. The Director will also manage, motivate, and develop a cross-functional team of Account Managers and Traders, and participate in product roadmap discussions. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, extensive experience in the digital and programmatic industry, and excellent leadership and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| 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. | — | 0 |
| 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 |