Associate Account Director

The Trade Desk The Trade Desk · Media · Sydney, Australia · Account Management

This role is for an Associate Account Director at The Trade Desk, a digital advertising platform. The role focuses on client services, account management, and driving growth for enterprise accounts. Responsibilities include communicating the platform's value, understanding competitive differentiators, acting as a consultative partner, onboarding new customers, identifying growth opportunities, becoming an expert on the platform, providing client training, and collaborating with Product Management on feature enhancements. The role requires significant digital advertising and client-facing experience, with a focus on building relationships and recommending strategies. While the company uses technology and processes large datasets, the core function of this role is client relationship management and business development within the advertising technology sector, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Focusing on driving growth across ANZ with the largest local and global brands
  2. Communicate the value of The Trade Desk media buying platform by walking through detailed demonstrations of the product
  3. Understand competitive differentiators in fast-changing online advertising landscape
  4. Being a trusted consultant to your clients across all the teams that touch those brands with the aim to accelerate the delivery of their objectives. You will do so by setting long term objectives and roadmaps accordingly
  5. Work closely with the Trading team to rapidly on board new customers and grow existing advertiser patches

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 10 years digital advertising experience and client facing experience required
  • Proven track record of growing accounts by forging a strong relationship with clients, understanding their objectives and recommending best strategies
  • Effective time management skills – ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
  • Experience with driving projects requiring stakeholders from different disciplines to drive output at pace
  • Solid experience in Excel and MS Office, including pivot tables, chart-making
  • Outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced start-up environment

Nice to have

  • Expertise in working with RTB, DSPs, ad exchanges, aggregators, ad servers, and other optimisation platforms is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • 10 years digital advertising experience and client facing experience required