The Trade Desk
Media · Programmatic advertising
Media · Programmatic advertising
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).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II for the Service Excellence (SE) team, focusing on the Monitoring & Observability (MOT) taskforce. The role involves building and operating the observability platform, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards, used across TTD engineering. | — | 0 |
| Director, Brand Marketing Director, Brand Marketing role at The Trade Desk, focusing on developing and executing go-to-market strategies, brand building initiatives, and content strategy for the ANZ region. This role requires strong leadership, collaboration with various marketing teams, and a deep understanding of marketing KPIs and lead funnel metrics. | — | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Account Executive Account Executive role at The Trade Desk, a global digital advertising technology company. Responsibilities include supporting the sales team with account strategy, proposal creation, revenue forecasting, and client relationship management. Requires experience in online advertising sales, strong quantitative and negotiation skills, and pipeline management. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director, Growth Business Development Director role focused on identifying, signing, and onboarding new business opportunities within the digital advertising platform. This role involves pipeline development, leading RFP responses, accelerating sales, supporting client onboarding, and positioning the company as a thought leader. Requires extensive experience in digital advertising sales, programmatic ecosystems, and building senior-level commercial deals. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |