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.
We’re looking for a Brand Art Director based in New York City to join our Creative team. Our ideal candidate is conceptual, collaborative, and most of all curious, with experience working across a diverse range of global creative/design initiatives. Above all, you think in brand systems — energized by how a visual identity scales, how design decisions connect across touchpoints, and how great work compounds into something unmistakably cohesive.
If that’s you, we’d love to meet you.
**What you’ll do: **
- Shape and scale The Trade Desk’s visual brand identity — creating work that sets the standards and raises the bar across every channel and format we show up in.
- Partner with our Brand, Product Marketing, Digital, Social and Events teams to create brand-consistent creative across campaigns, programs, and initiatives.
- Own the creative for a high volume of events, campaigns, and programs — from large-scale global experiences and industry conferences to product and education initiatives like Edge Academy. This means concepting, art directing, and executing across environmental design, digital advertising, social, video, and web.
- Ensure brand consistency across all touchpoints — contributing to the development, documentation, and stewardship of our visual identity and brand system.
- This is an Individual Contributor role, and you will balance working independently and in close collaboration with the creative director, art directors, copywriters, designers, editors, and producers.
**Who you are: **
- 6-10 years of experience focused on developing creative work at an agency or in-house for an established global B2B or B2C brand, with at least 2 of those years leading/concepting projects and working with senior leadership.
- A brand thinker with range — your portfolio leads with identity and systems work, but you’re equally comfortable executing across campaigns, events, social, and digital.
- Confident presenting your work and rationale to stakeholders — you can walk a room through creative decisions, hold a point of view under pressure, and advocate for the work without being precious about it.
- Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Figma, with working knowledge of or active curiosity about AI tools — and how they can accelerate process, push creative, and evolve brand systems.
- A strong design eye — typography, composition, hierarchy, color — with taste that shows in everything you make.
- You make it easy. You’re as organized and reliable as you are talented — you deliver on time, listen well, and make the people around you better. When creative direction shifts or scope changes, you adapt without drama and find a way to make the work stronger for it.
- Experience in motion graphics, on-set art direction, and/or working with web developers is a plus. #LI-LM2
**Please provide a link to your portfolio in your application (will not be considered without portfolio website). **
The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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
$77,600—$142,200 USD
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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