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About the team Infrastructure BizOps ensures The Trade Desk's technology infrastructure scales efficiently and predictably to meet business demand — maximizing performance while optimizing cost. We bridge engineering needs and financial reality, owning long-range capacity planning, commercial and sourcing strategy, and the full infrastructure P&L across a portfolio of several hundred million dollars in annual spend.
About the role You will own the on-prem compute (Foundation) product line — the financial plan, the commercial strategy, and the results. This role translates engineering demand into a fully- costed, multi-year capacity and CapEx plan, leads hardware and capacity sourcing, and structures the large commitments behind our on-prem buildouts. You are the commercial and financial owner for one of the most capital-intensive areas of the business.
What you'll do • Own on-prem capacity planning — translate demand into server and rack requirements, power and space envelopes, performance-per-watt and density assumptions, and a $/QPS driver tree. • Build the multi-year CapEx and OpEx plan for the Foundation line, including CapEx timing and fixed-asset lifecycle (in-service, retirements, excess and obsolescence). • Lead hardware and capacity sourcing: OEM/VAR negotiations, supply-chain management, delivery and rack turn-ups, and decommissioning strategy. • Structure large on-prem commitments — colocation and hardware agreements and, where relevant, structured transactions such as sale-leasebacks — modeling total cost of ownership and risk. • Run the on-prem FP&A cycle: AOP, reforecasts, variance analysis, and accounting-close support. • Partner with Datacenter and Production Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Procurement to execute the on-prem strategy from plan to deployment.
What you bring Required • 5–7+ years in finance, infrastructure finance, strategic finance, or a closely related field. • Demonstrated ability to structure and model large financial commitments, with strong structured-finance and quantitative modeling skills. • Familiarity with on-prem infrastructure buildouts — datacenter, server and hardware sourcing, supply chain, or capacity planning. • Strategic judgment: a track record of owning ambiguous, high-stakes decisions independently. • Clear, senior-register communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Preferred • Prior experience at a Hyperscaler or Neocloud, or in datacenter / infrastructure operations. • 2+ years in investment banking, private equity, or similar • Exposure to structured real-estate or asset-finance transactions (e.g., sale-leaseback, lease structuring). • Experience operating as the financial and commercial partner to an engineering organization.
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In accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents, retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, well-being benefits, reimbursement for certain tuition expenses, parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year. Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.
Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave
At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is
$137,600—$172,000 USD
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