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).
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| Director, Client Service Director, Client Service at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role focuses on managing client accounts, leading teams to drive account growth, developing client relationships, and advocating for client needs internally. Requires strong leadership, client management, and programmatic advertising experience. | — | 0 |
| Director, Retail - VenturaOS The Trade Desk is seeking a Director, Retail Partnerships to own the end-to-end strategy, execution, and growth of retail relationships for their CTV platform, Ventura OS. This role involves scaling platform distribution, activation, and monetization through strategic retail alliances, and driving joint monetization strategies linking CTV inventory with retail shopper data. | — | 0 |
| Technical Account Manager Technical Account Manager role focused on managing integrations with inventory/publisher partners in the digital advertising space. The role involves providing technical guidance, acting as a liaison between partners and engineering, and advising on technical solutions. It requires understanding and communicating advanced engineering concepts to non-technical stakeholders and managing complex integration projects. |
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| Sr Director, Product Management - VenturaOS Senior Director, Product Management for Ventura OS, a next-generation Connected TV platform. This role involves leading strategy and execution for a core product domain, driving product strategy and roadmap, and owning the full product lifecycle from concept to launch and iteration. The position requires experience in 0->1 environments, complex platform challenges, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, research, design, and data science teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced product leader with a platform and systems thinking approach, technically fluent, influential, data-driven, and comfortable with ambiguity. CTV/streaming experience is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Associate Account Director This role is for an Associate Account Director at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on managing and growing agency accounts, acting as a consultant, and working with internal teams to improve client campaigns and the platform. It requires extensive advertising and client-facing experience, with a focus on account growth and client training. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Security Engineering Manager, Security Engineering to lead a combined team of Application Security and Platform Security engineers, with end-to-end ownership of how TTD secures both the code they ship and the infrastructure they run it on. Contribute to the strategy, roadmap, and execution of TTD’s Security Engineering function — including the KPIs, maturity model, and executive-level reporting that demonstrate measurable improvement in our overall security posture over time. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Engineering & Applied Science - VenturaOS This role is for a Senior Director of Engineering & Applied Science to lead the engineering organization for VenturaOS, a next-generation Connected TV platform. The role involves owning the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of the platform, which includes consumer experiences, platform software, device/OS engineering, backend services, monetization, partner integrations, and core infrastructure. The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading large-scale engineering organizations and a strong technical background in operating systems, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure, with a preference for experience in Connected TV or consumer operating systems. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer role at The Trade Desk, focusing on building and delivering data-focused products and back-end infrastructure for a global digital advertising platform. The role involves end-to-end ownership, working with a variety of technologies, and contributing to large-scale distributed systems and data challenges. Staff Engineers also provide technical leadership and mentorship. | — | 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 |
| Senior Account Executive (Independent Agencies) Senior Account Executive role focused on building relationships with independent advertising agencies within The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. The role involves driving sales, understanding client needs, and contributing to product roadmap discussions. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Inventory Development Senior Manager, Inventory Development at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role focuses on establishing and cultivating relationships with key publisher organizations, building strategic business plans, and evangelizing identity and addressability strategies. The position requires extensive experience in programmatic advertising and publisher business development, with a strong track record of closing deals and established relationships within the digital advertising ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Sales Development Representative The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role is for a Sales Development Representative who will pursue outbound brand prospects in North America, seeking to increase outbound demand velocity. The role involves constructing and executing outbound outreach, conducting high-level intro conversations, and working closely with sales and marketing teams. Previous advertising technology experience is required. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Executive (Pharma) Senior Account Executive (Pharma) at The Trade Desk, a global technology company and leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role focuses on managing and growing strategic relationships with large Healthcare/Pharmaceutical clients, identifying new revenue streams, responding to RFPs, and communicating the value of The Trade Desk media buying platform. The role requires 5+ years of digital advertising sales experience, with Pharma experience strongly preferred, and a proven track record of exceeding revenue expectations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Client Service The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising. This Senior Director, Client Service role focuses on leading and scaling client service teams, driving revenue growth, building client relationships, and contributing to the evolution of the organization. The role requires strong people management, strategic planning, and client engagement skills within the digital advertising domain. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (P&G) Business Development Director role focused on driving revenue and deepening client relationships within The Trade Desk's strategic partnership with Procter & Gamble. The role involves developing and executing advertising strategies, providing thought leadership in media buying, and contributing to commercial strategy across various advertising solutions. | — | 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 General Counsel, Product & Privacy Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy role focused on providing legal counsel to product and business teams to mitigate legal risk in product development, with a specific emphasis on privacy laws and advertising technology, including the use of AI/ML models. | — | 0 |
| Director, Business Development (Mid Market Growth) This role is for a Director of Business Development focused on Mid Market Growth in digital advertising. The individual will lead and build a team of sales professionals, drive net-new revenue through outbound strategies, and establish scalable processes and frameworks. The role requires significant experience in digital advertising sales, a proven track record in acquisition, and strong leadership and coaching skills. | — | 0 |
| Lead Associate Account Director This role is for a Lead Associate Account Director at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on managing agency relationships, providing strategic advice, demonstrating platform value, leading client meetings, and developing a team of Account Managers. It involves understanding client business objectives and serving as a liaison between clients and the product team, but does not involve direct AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Contracts Manager This role is for a Senior Contracts Manager to lead and evolve the Contracts Management function within the Legal Operations team. The individual will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements, managing a team of Contracts Managers, establishing best practices, and partnering with technology teams to implement CLM solutions. The role requires significant experience in contracts management and people leadership, with a focus on driving operational excellence and scalability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Development Director (Independent Agencies) Senior Business Development Director role focused on developing strategy, building relationships with independent agencies, and negotiating commercial agreements for a digital advertising platform. Requires extensive sales and negotiation experience in the digital media and SaaS/Enterprise space. | — | 0 |
| Associate Manager, Infrastructure BizOps (Foundation) This role is for an Associate Manager, Infrastructure BizOps (Foundation) at The Trade Desk. The primary focus is on owning the on-prem compute (Foundation) product line, including financial planning, commercial strategy, and results. Responsibilities include on-prem capacity planning, building CapEx and OpEx plans, leading hardware and capacity sourcing, structuring large on-prem commitments, and managing the FP&A cycle for the on-prem infrastructure. The role requires strong financial and quantitative modeling skills, familiarity with on-prem infrastructure buildouts, and strategic judgment. It is a product-focused role within the infrastructure business operations team, managing a significant portion of the company's infrastructure spend. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Inventory Management This role focuses on managing and growing partnerships with digital publishers and supply-side platforms in the digital advertising space. It involves supporting partner implementations of key initiatives, monitoring partnership performance, optimizing and scaling partnerships through data-driven solutions, and collaborating with internal teams on technical adoptions and operational efficiencies. The ideal candidate has extensive programmatic experience and a proven track record in building and managing vendor/client relationships. | — | 0 |
| Associate Business Development Director The Trade Desk is seeking an Associate Business Development Director in Tokyo to manage and grow key client accounts within their digital advertising platform. This role involves building relationships, understanding client needs, communicating platform value, and participating in product roadmap discussions. The position requires extensive experience in online advertising, strong communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to work cross-functionally. | — | 0 |
| Sr Account Manager This role is for a Sr. Account Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company focused on digital advertising. The role involves managing and growing agency accounts, onboarding new customers, and providing training on The Trade Desk platform. It requires experience in online advertising, client-facing roles, and campaign management, with a focus on client success and platform expertise. | — | 0 |
| Sr Accounts Payable Specialist The Trade Desk is seeking a Sr Accounts Payable Specialist for their APAC region. This role involves managing AP processes for multiple entities, assisting with audits, processing invoices and payments, and collaborating with various finance and compliance teams. The ideal candidate has experience in end-to-end AP, knowledge of accounting software, strong Excel skills, and the ability to manage international transactions. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director, North Asia Outbound This role is for a Business Development Director focused on driving regional market expansion in North Asia by hunting new business opportunities and delivering exceptional growth for clients. The role involves prospecting and winning top cross-border brands expanding outbound from North Asia, acting as a solution seller for major exporters and emerging verticals like Social Apps and AI. It requires strong sales acumen, a drive to exceed revenue targets, and the ability to foster C-level relationships. | — | 0 |
| Senior Executive Recruiting Coordinator The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Executive Candidate Experience Partner to support their Executive Recruiting and Candidate Experience teams. This role is responsible for owning the end-to-end coordination and facilitation of executive-level hiring processes, ensuring a seamless candidate experience. The role involves managing complex scheduling, partnering with senior leaders, and driving process enhancements. | — | 0 |
| General Manager, Revenue Operations (Agency and Growth) The Trade Desk is seeking a General Manager, Revenue Operations to lead and scale revenue operations for their Agency and Growth Portfolios. This senior leadership role involves translating global revenue strategy into execution, partnering with GTM, Finance, and Product teams, and building high-performing operational teams. The role requires experience in revenue operations, B2B/technology organizations, and supporting agency-led commercial models, with a strong analytical and leadership skillset. | — | 0 |
| Senior Recruiter - Sales (Contract) This role is for a Senior Recruiter focused on Sales, Business Development, and Client Services hiring for The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The contract position requires full-cycle recruitment, internal mobility support, and stakeholder partnership. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of recruiting experience, preferably in AdTech or Digital Media, with a proven ability to manage high-volume, fast-paced environments and support internal hiring processes. | — | 0 |
| Compensation Operations Analyst The Trade Desk is seeking a Compensation Operations Analyst to support the administration and analysis of sales incentive compensation for approximately 1,500 employees. This role involves ensuring accurate and timely commission payouts, responding to inquiries, preparing financial analyses, and collaborating with various internal teams. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of experience in finance, analytics, or operations, strong Excel skills, and a detail-oriented approach. | — | 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 |
| Principal Product Manager, Core Platform Ventura TV OS This Principal Product Manager role focuses on the core platform capabilities of a new Connected TV operating system (Ventura OS). The role involves owning the vision, roadmap, and execution for system-level UX, setup, profiles, privacy, and compliance. It requires working closely with partners (OEMs, ODMs, SoCs) on hardware/software integration, performance, and defining platform standards for onboarding, authentication, consent, and data handling. A key aspect is leading privacy and compliance from a product perspective and defining certification requirements. | — | 0 |
| Programmatic Trading Specialist This role is for a Programmatic Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a digital advertising technology company. The specialist will collaborate with Account Management and Business Development to provide strategic recommendations, troubleshoot campaign issues, analyze data using tools like Excel and Tableau, and consult with clients on platform best practices. The role requires 2+ years of client-facing experience in ad tech, digital marketing, or finance, strong quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to manage client relationships and campaign performance. | — | 0 |
| Sr Staff Product Manager This role is for a Senior Staff Product Manager at The Trade Desk, focusing on their Creative products within the digital advertising platform. The responsibilities include owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution for these products, working with engineering and data science teams, gathering customer requirements, designing prototypes, and prioritizing releases. The role requires extensive experience in product management within the Creatives space, strong technical and data-driven capabilities, and the ability to manage complex, ambiguous projects. | — | 0 |
| Pensions Manager The Pensions Manager role at The Trade Desk focuses on managing employee pension data, processing contributions, and ensuring compliance with pension laws across EMEA and APAC. This role involves developing a governance roadmap, collaborating with global benefits teams on audits, and providing customer service to employees. It requires strong data analysis skills, relationship building, and experience in pension administration. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer – Janus Platform Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving The Trade Desk's internal feature release platform (Janus). This platform integrates with hundreds of internal services to propagate configuration changes in near real-time, enabling cross-functional teams to release features. The role involves owning the full stack, building self-service tooling, ensuring platform reliability at scale, and driving architectural decisions. | — | 0 |
| Sr Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global digital advertising technology company. Focuses on managing key brand-direct accounts, providing strategic advisory, driving revenue growth, and ensuring campaign execution. Requires strong client engagement, commercial acumen, and experience in online advertising and programmatic platforms. | — | 0 |
| Payroll Specialist The Trade Desk is seeking a Payroll Specialist to support day-to-day tasks for APAC payrolls, collaborate with the Sr. Payroll Specialist, and handle employee payroll queries. Responsibilities include end-to-end payroll processing across 10 APAC countries, data validation, ensuring accurate processing of salary, benefits, and taxes, maintaining data integrity in systems like Workday HCM and CloudPay, preparing reports, and ensuring compliance with regulations and SOX controls. The role requires 3-5 years of payroll experience, basic understanding of payroll principles and local regulations, and proficiency in Excel. | — | 0 |
| Sr Trading Specialist This role focuses on campaign management and optimization within The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform, requiring expertise in large datasets and client support. It is not directly involved in AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Director of Growth Solutions The Trade Desk is seeking a Director of Growth Solutions to build and lead a new technical pre-sales function focused on acquiring new advertisers. This player-coach role involves leading a team of Solutions Engineers, defining pre-sales standards, and directly participating in high-leverage deals to drive new logo acquisition and revenue growth within the digital advertising space. | — | 0 |
| Sr Accountant Senior Accountant role at The Trade Desk, focusing on financial accounting, compliance, and tax requirements for China legal entities. Responsibilities include month-end close, statutory reporting, managing third-party providers, and acting as a finance business partner. Requires 7+ years of accounting experience, knowledge of China GAAP and tax regulations, and ERP system proficiency. | — | 0 |
| Director, Client Service This role is for a Director of Client Service at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The position involves leading a client services team, managing senior channel partner relationships, driving partner success metrics, overseeing campaign operations, and collaborating with Product and Engineering. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in programmatic advertising and managing client-facing teams, with strong analytical and leadership skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. Focuses on managing client accounts, driving revenue, and acting as a platform expert. Requires experience in online advertising/ad tech and strong client-facing skills. | — | 0 |
| VP, Business Development - Agency, Dentsu, Havas, Horizon The Trade Desk is seeking a VP, Business Development to lead global strategic partnerships with key agency groups, driving multi-year growth and revenue. This role involves executive relationship management, building and scaling a global sales organization, shaping partnership strategy, and ensuring seamless integration across departments. The VP will serve as the primary C-suite interface, influencing agency engagement models, guiding commercial negotiations, and translating market needs into product and business strategy. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (CPG) The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. This Business Development Director role focuses on managing and growing strategic relationships with major CPG clients nationally. The role involves understanding client needs, communicating the value of the media buying platform, participating in product roadmap discussions, responding to RFPs, identifying up-selling opportunities, and building internal relationships. The ideal candidate has a strong sales or marketing background in online advertising, experience with major advertising clients, and quantitative and negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Account Manager Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, focusing on growing relationships with advertisers and agencies in Japan, translating business goals into programmatic advertising strategies, and driving revenue growth. The role involves acting as a strategic advisor, providing platform expertise, leading performance reviews, and collaborating with internal teams. It also includes contributing to the Client Services practice by creating training and sales materials, and gathering client feedback to influence product strategy. Requires fluency in English and Japanese, with experience in online advertising and client-facing roles. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director Business Development Director in Seoul for The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role focuses on leading commercial efforts, driving partnerships, elevating client relationships, and unlocking revenue opportunities within the Korean market. It requires a proven track record in building relationships, delivering commercial results, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. The role involves managing key accounts, forecasting, strategic initiative execution, and representing the company at industry events. It also requires understanding technical product discussions and advocating for market needs within global teams. | — | 0 |
| Solutions Architect, Anaplan This role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying Anaplan models and applications for accounting and planning functions like revenue accounting, incentive compensation, sales forecasting, and FP&A. It involves system integration, stakeholder collaboration, UI design, project management, and technical support within the Anaplan ecosystem. | — | 0 |