The Trade Desk
Media · Programmatic advertising
Media · Programmatic advertising
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 Software Engineer-Data Engineer Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineer role focused on building and owning complex data pipelines, models, and integrations for analytics, reporting, and internal products within the Technology Operations group. Requires expertise in SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT, and cloud data warehousing technologies like Snowflake and Databricks. Involves technical leadership, mentoring, and ensuring data quality and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Sr Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global digital advertising technology company. The role focuses on leading client portfolios, providing strategic advice, developing technical solutions, and driving business growth through cross-selling and upselling. It requires strong client relationship management, commercial accountability, and collaboration with internal teams like product and engineering. The position also involves some product roadmap input based on client needs. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Tech/Telco) This role is for a Business Development Director focused on the Tech/Telco sector for The Trade Desk, a global digital advertising platform. The position involves managing strategic client relationships, identifying up-selling opportunities, and contributing to product roadmap discussions based on client needs. It requires a strong background in online advertising sales or marketing, deep understanding of the Tech category, and proven relationship-building skills. |
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| Account Manager Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. Focuses on managing and growing agency accounts, onboarding new customers, identifying growth opportunities, and providing platform expertise and training. Collaborates with Trading and Sales teams, and provides input to Product Management for platform enhancements. Requires client-facing experience, online advertising experience, and proficiency in campaign management and Excel. | — | 0 |
| Senior Account Manager Senior Account Manager role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on managing and growing relationships with advertisers and agencies in Japan, acting as a strategic advisor, driving revenue growth, and providing client feedback to influence product strategy. Requires strong client-facing and online advertising experience, with a sales background being a plus. Fluency in English and Japanese is mandatory. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - OpenPath Senior Software Engineer on the OpenPath team at The Trade Desk, focusing on architecting and building systems for direct publisher integrations and a publisher platform to improve transparency and efficiency in programmatic advertising. | — | 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 Software Engineer - Cloud Services Senior Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining scalable, service-oriented infrastructure solutions for a globally distributed system. The role involves creating self-service tooling and automation to improve product team efficiency and operational health, with elements of SRE mindset including configuration management, capacity modeling, and monitoring. Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, cloud providers, and infrastructure as code is required. | — | 0 |
| Ad Policy Operations Analyst The Trade Desk is seeking an Ad Policy Operations Analyst to ensure compliance with TTD policies and best practices in the digital advertising space. This role involves fielding inquiries, answering policy questions, reviewing creatives, and supporting policy enforcement efforts. The ideal candidate will have experience in Ad Tech, trust and safety, or data privacy, with strong analytical and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Development Director (HoldCo) This role is for a Senior Business Development Director in the digital advertising space. The primary responsibilities involve developing business strategy, managing relationships with Holding Companies, and working cross-functionally to cultivate accounts and negotiate deals. The role also contributes to product road map discussions based on client needs. The company operates a large-scale platform with significant data processing challenges, but this role is focused on business development and sales, not AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Finance Manager, Sales Finance & Strategy Senior Finance Manager, Sales Finance & Strategy at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role partners with North American Sales leadership to drive revenue growth through financial analysis, forecasting, and strategic insights. Responsibilities include building models, developing executive presentations, optimizing resource allocation, evaluating sales pipeline, and supporting strategic deals. Requires 10+ years of finance/FP&A experience, expert financial modeling skills, and strong communication abilities. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Retail Data Partnerships (Grocery & E-commerce) This role focuses on driving strategic growth of The Trade Desk's retail data partnerships by accelerating execution, adoption, and operational rigor. The Manager will manage day-to-day partnerships, develop performance narratives, and act as a bridge between AI-driven insights and client action. The role also involves negotiations, contracting, and translating retailer feedback into product inputs. | — | 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 |
| Lead Associate Account Director Lead Associate Account Director role at The Trade Desk, focusing on managing agency relationships, driving revenue growth, and overseeing a team of Account Managers. The role involves strategic advisory, innovative solution development, and acting as a liaison between clients and the product team, with a strong emphasis on client-facing leadership and team development within the programmatic advertising industry. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Identity Team Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and data products for identity graphs in the digital advertising domain. The role involves processing petabyte-scale data and constructing identity graphs in a privacy-conscious way, sitting at the intersection of data engineering, distributed systems, and data science/ML. | — | 0 |
| Commissions Analyst This role focuses on managing and administering sales commission and bonus plans, ensuring accurate payments, and supporting the overall sales compensation process. It involves configuring plans in a commissions system, maintaining data accuracy, handling accruals, analyzing revenue, supporting audits (including SOX compliance), and resolving payout disputes. The role requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with experience in incentive compensation and advanced Excel. | — | 0 |
| Analyst, FP&A The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst will support the company's financial and strategic initiatives through data-driven insights and operational planning, focusing on headcount and expense planning functions. Responsibilities include creating financial reports, refining forecasting, improving global cost forecasting accuracy, and performing ad-hoc analyses. | — | 0 |
| Sales Development Representative (English & French Speaking) Sales Development Representative role focused on outbound outreach to prospects in the EMEA region, requiring business-level proficiency in English and French. The role involves identifying and engaging potential clients, understanding their needs, and working with sales and marketing teams to drive demand. | — | 0 |
| Sales Development Representative (English & German speaking) Sales Development Representative for The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on outbound sales, pursuing prospects in the EMEA region, and increasing demand velocity. Responsibilities include constructing and executing outreach, conducting intro conversations, managing CRM tools, and collaborating with sales and marketing teams. Requires business-level proficiency in English and German, 2+ years of business development experience, and comfort with cold calling. | — | 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 Business Intelligence Analyst This role focuses on business intelligence and advanced analytics to support decision-making across various departments within The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The analyst will design and develop insights, experiments, and models, leveraging SQL/R/Python and BI tools to provide actionable insights and influence leadership. | — | 0 |
| Finance Manager, Sales Finance & Strategy Finance Manager, Sales Finance & Strategy role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role partners with APAC Sales leadership to drive revenue growth through financial analysis, forecasting, and strategic insights. Responsibilities include building models, developing executive presentations, optimizing resource allocation, evaluating sales pipeline, supporting deals, and driving ad hoc projects. Requires 8+ years of FP&A experience, strong financial modeling skills, and excellent communication. | — | 0 |
| Accountant The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Accountant to join the GL team at their headquarters in Ventura, CA. This role will report to the Associate Accounting Manager and will be part of a high caliber Accounting and Finance team. The Staff Accountant will help ensure that all accounting activities are recorded timely and accurately. We are looking for someone who is highly motivated, pro-active, eager to learn and contribute to the team. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - MQE The Trade Desk's Marketplace Quality Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on systems that assess, measure, and optimize supply quality in the programmatic advertising ecosystem. This role involves deep technical challenges in areas like identity resolution, statistical modeling, and real-time decisioning, with a direct impact on business outcomes. The primary technology stack includes C#/.NET, Python, and SQL, with a focus on distributed systems and data-heavy backend work. | — | 0 |
| Senior Analyst, FP&A Finance Operations The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Analyst for their FP&A team. This role involves building and maintaining forecasting models, analyzing spend trends, creating C-level presentations, driving the quota-setting process, and collaborating with various teams to enhance reporting systems. The ideal candidate has advanced modeling skills in Excel, experience with Anaplan and Salesforce, proficiency in BI tools like Tableau, and competency in SQL. | — | 0 |
| Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Omnichannel Senior Full Stack Software Engineer for The Trade Desk's Omnichannel team, focusing on designing and building systems to orchestrate advertising across channels. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, collaboration with various teams, and translating business requirements into technical solutions. Requires strong experience in distributed systems and backend development. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Workplace Services This role is for a Sr. Manager, Workplace Services at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The position focuses on leading workplace operations and team performance to deliver a best-in-class employee experience, supporting productivity, collaboration, and business growth. Responsibilities include managing teams, overseeing office services, health and safety, budget management, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to align workplace strategy with business needs. The role requires strong leadership, operational excellence, and strategic thinking. | — | 0 |
| Front End Engineer II - Reporting The Trade Desk is hiring a Front End Engineer II to design, build, and deliver data-focused products for stakeholders in the digital advertising space. This role involves end-to-end ownership of software development, focusing on user experience and high-performance data interactions to enable clients' real-time decision-making. | — | 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 collaborating with account management and business development teams to provide strategic recommendations, analyze campaign performance, and act as a platform expert for clients. It requires strong analytical skills, client-facing experience, and the ability to understand and navigate the ad tech landscape. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role at The Trade Desk, focusing on end-to-end ownership of data-focused products, building back-end infrastructure, and solving algorithmic, optimization, and scale challenges in a distributed system environment. The role emphasizes quality at scale, collaboration, and delivering features from inception to production. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director, Growth This role is for a Business Development Director focused on growth in the digital advertising space. It involves executing discovery processes, partnering with sales and client services, building strategic relationships, articulating platform value, leading RFP responses, identifying upsell opportunities, and collaborating with product, marketing, and revenue teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in digital advertising sales, a strong network within key verticals, and a background in programmatic media. This is not an AI/ML-focused role. | — | 0 |
| Sr Trading Specialist This role is for a Sr Trading Specialist in digital advertising, focusing on managing trading efforts, developing strategies, and supporting clients on a global technology platform. It involves client-facing responsibilities, analytical abilities, and working with large datasets, but is not directly involved in AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Communications Director, APAC ex‑North Asia Communications Director for APAC ex-North Asia at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. Responsible for setting PR strategy, developing communications programs, managing media relations, and building external engagement across Australia, India, Southeast Asia. Requires extensive B2B communications experience, ideally in technology or digital media, with strong strategic thinking, media relations, and stakeholder management skills. | — | 0 |
| Director, Client Services (Auto) Director, Client Services (Auto) at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. This role focuses on managing a portfolio of client accounts, leading team development, driving revenue growth, and advocating for client needs internally. Requires extensive experience in programmatic advertising, client relationship management, and leadership. | — | 0 |
| Sr Trading Specialist This role is for a Sr Trading Specialist in programmatic advertising. The responsibilities include managing trading efforts, developing strategies, growing accounts, training clients, and acting as an internal resource. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in programmatic advertising, client-facing skills, strong communication, analytical abilities, and quantitative skills for mining insights from large datasets. | — | 0 |
| Digital Marketing Manager - Programmatic This role is for a Digital Marketing Manager specializing in programmatic advertising on The Trade Desk platform. The focus is on designing, activating, and optimizing B2B programmatic campaigns to drive measurable outcomes, partnering with various internal teams and external partners. Responsibilities include campaign strategy, execution, optimization, data analysis, reporting, and collaboration. Requires 5+ years of programmatic trading experience, deep knowledge of The Trade Desk, and strong analytical skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Programmatic Account Manager This role is for a Senior Programmatic Account Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in the digital advertising space. The role focuses on managing and growing key agency accounts, providing strategic recommendations, data-driven insights, and exceptional client service. The individual will become an expert on The Trade Desk platform, offer guidance to clients, provide training, and contribute to platform enhancements by providing feedback to Product Management. The role requires strong client relationship building, analytical abilities, and experience in online advertising and DSP platforms. | — | 0 |
| Brand Marketing Manager This role is for a Brand Marketing Manager at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The manager will drive strategy and execution of integrated marketing efforts to strengthen awareness, consideration, and adoption of The Trade Desk platform. Responsibilities include creating narratives, developing go-to-market strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, leading content development, tracking marketing performance, managing events and sponsorships, and contributing to team culture. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in brand marketing, familiarity with the ad tech landscape, strong storytelling abilities, and experience with productivity and sales tracking tools. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Political & Advocacy) The Trade Desk is seeking a Business Development Director for the Political & Advocacy Sector. This role involves leading the full sales cycle, from prospecting to deal negotiation and campaign execution, focusing on programmatic advertising across various channels. The director will act as a thought leader, providing strategic advice to clients by mapping AI-driven platform capabilities to their campaign goals and offering feedback to the Product team for the political-specific roadmap. | — | 0 |
| Senior Accountant Senior Accountant, SEC Reporting & Equity role responsible for accounting, reporting, and disclosures related to stock-based compensation (SBC) and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). This role involves monthly close activities, journal entries, variance analysis, general ledger reconciliations, preparing disclosures for SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, Proxy), interfacing with external auditors, assisting with SOX compliance, and researching technical accounting issues related to equity. | — | 0 |
| Business Development GM (Holdco) This Business Development GM role at The Trade Desk focuses on managing and growing revenue performance with a key client (Omnicom Legacy Agency). Responsibilities include serving as the primary point of contact for client leadership, accelerating engagement, optimizing client activity, leading commercial programs, shaping US strategy for growth channels, and ideating new commercial concepts. The ideal candidate is a senior sales individual with a proven track record in sales and marketing, experience managing senior sellers, a deep understanding of the agency business, strong relationship-building and negotiation skills, and existing relationships with key decision-makers. | — | 0 |
| Sr Enterprise Salesforce Engineer This role is for a Sr. Enterprise Salesforce Engineer focused on designing, developing, and optimizing the Salesforce Sales Cloud platform. Responsibilities include technical design, implementation of Apex and LWC components, integrations, automation, and leading technical projects. While the role is primarily focused on Salesforce engineering, it has a preferred experience with Salesforce-native AI tools, suggesting an exploratory interest in AI within the enterprise context. | — | 0 |
| Lead Sr Staff Software Engineer - Front End Fundamentals Lead Senior Staff Software Engineer responsible for the platform UI framework, shared design patterns, and frontend frameworks for The Trade Desk's core workflows. This role involves technical leadership, people management, and end-to-end ownership of foundational user experiences for traders on the platform. | — | 0 |
| Senior Commercial Finance Analyst, Deal Desk Senior Commercial Finance Analyst role focused on managing the deal lifecycle, collaborating with sales and cross-functional teams, ensuring compliance with policies, and performing financial analysis for deal viability within The Trade Desk's global advertising platform. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role focuses on designing, building, and owning full lifecycle software development in a distributed system environment, with a focus on large-scale data processing and microservices. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing, developing, and maintaining backend services and system components, including data processing workflows, scalable data access layers, and cloud-native services. The role involves API contract design, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and application instrumentation for observability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Observability & IRM Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining observability and incident response tooling for a large-scale digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include developing incident management automation, evaluating logging stacks, and extending internal developer portals. Requires experience with production infrastructure, distributed systems, and observability concepts. | — | 0 |
| Senior Stock Plan Administrator The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Stock Plan Administrator to manage global equity programs, including stock options, RSUs, and ESPP. Responsibilities include processing grants, vesting, exercises, tax reporting, and employee inquiries, while ensuring compliance with SOX procedures and SEC regulations. Requires 5+ years of experience and familiarity with equity administration software. | — | 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 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. | — | 0 |