The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more.
Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.
The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
The Trade Desk is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company and we require excellent leadership at all levels. We are looking for an experienced commercial transactions attorney who has excellent judgement, loves to analyze complex legal issues, find creative solutions, and effectively negotiate deals. We are looking for someone able to collaborate cross-functionally while also balancing competing demands, working independently, maintaining a positive attitude and, hopefully, contributing some humor to our legal slack channel. The Trade Desk is a company that will invest in its employees’ professional development— as we grow, we want our employees to grow with us.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- Lead all aspects of commercial counseling support for Data Partnerships initiatives in the APAC region.
- Partner with stakeholders across established and emerging APAC markets, delivering commercially sound, regionally informed guidance grounded in regulatory expertise and cultural fluency.
- Exercise strong judgment to provide legal leadership on first impression APAC strategic initiatives involving cutting edge areas such as the future of data in advertising, including retail data, measurement, identity, etc.
- Gain deep technical understanding of adtech data flows and technology to advise on innovative commercial deal frameworks.
- Structure, draft, negotiate, and manage a variety of commercial agreements with the largest data suppliers and platforms in the world, with a particular focus on data licensing and all aspects of data rights and usage.
- Collaborate with key leaders on our data partnerships, business development, product, privacy, and policy teams to advise on complex legal matters and develop creative solutions to contribute to the overall success of the company.
- Continually improve our templates, playbooks, and legal processes to help us scale globally with a consistent but locally relevant approach and to help the company to move quickly and thoughtfully.
- Mentor and lead other attorneys.
- Provide practical advice on legal issues and risks, complex agreement structures and company policies in a risk-tolerant, but compliance-oriented environment.
- Identify, research, analyze, and work with cross-functional teams to address potential risks related to a wide range of relevant legal topics (e.g., licensing, intellectual property, commercial, data security, and privacy laws).
- Keep abreast of regional developments in adtech, data, and legislative changes that may affect the company globally.
- Distill and communicate complex legal concepts in layman’s terms.
WHO YOU ARE:
- 12+ years in house or in combination with an internationally/nationally recognized law firm experience required.
- Admitted to practice law in at least one Asian jurisdiction.
- Fluent in English.
- Strong experience operating internationally, including across different Asian countries.
- Experience in digital advertising and/or digital media strongly preferred.
- Significant experience leading legal negotiations with large global companies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact with internal and external constituents at all levels.
- Experience managing outside counsel.
- Excellent business judgement, superior leadership skills, and strong commitment to providing timely and top-quality client service with superior work product.
- Exceptional critical thinking skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, while juggling competing, time-sensitive demands.
- Excellent legal skills, including significant experience in structuring, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial technology agreements.
- Strong business sense and ability to exercise good business judgement.
- Excellent interpersonal skills (sense of humor is a big plus).
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