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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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. | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Associate General Counsel, Commercial CTV & Advertising This role is for an Associate General Counsel focused on commercial transactions within the digital advertising and CTV space, specifically involving advertising agreements, license agreements, and distribution agreements for a new streaming TV operating system. The role requires extensive experience in structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements, collaborating cross-functionally, and advising on legal issues related to technology, intellectual property, data security, and privacy law. | — | 0 |
| Lead Associate Account Director Lead Associate Account Director at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. This role involves overseeing client relationships, providing strategic advisory, driving revenue growth, and acting as a liaison between clients and the product team. The position also requires coaching and managing a team of Account Managers. | — | 0 |
| Programmatic Account Manager This role is for a Programmatic Account Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The role involves managing and growing key client accounts, providing strategic recommendations, and ensuring client success on The Trade Desk platform. It requires strong client relationship skills, analytical abilities, and a deep understanding of online advertising and the company's platform. The role also involves collaborating with internal teams to onboard customers, identify growth opportunities, and provide feedback for product enhancements. The company emphasizes supporting trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide through transparent, effective, and responsible advertising. | — | 0 |
| Programmatic Trading Specialist This role is for a Programmatic Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The specialist will collaborate with Account Management and Business Development to provide strategic recommendations, troubleshoot campaign setup and performance, analyze data, and consult clients on platform best practices. The role requires client-facing experience, strong quantitative skills, and the ability to analyze large datasets. | — | 0 |
| Senior Programmatic Trading Specialist This role is for a Senior Programmatic Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves spearheading strategy development, leading data-driven conversations, consulting with clients on campaign goals, and operating as a power user of the TTD platform. It also requires collaborating with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to solve complex technical problems and troubleshooting advanced technical issues. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of consultative, client-facing experience in ad tech or data-heavy industries, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and advanced Excel skills, with experience in R, Python, or PowerBI being a plus. | — | 0 |