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.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Act as a player-coach within a vertical, leading strategic DACH brands, and collaborate closely with the Director Client Service as well as Account Management and Business Development leads.
- Lead and mentor a team of Trading Specialists, supporting their personal development and driving growth across their client portfolios.
- Manage your own client portfolio with a strong data focus, generating insights and translating them into clear, actionable client recommendations
- Act as a strategic advisor to key clients, guiding problem-solving discussions and providing best-in-class client services.
- Work with internal teams to create 12-month growth strategies that help achieve client’s goals and objectives.
- Become a leader in best practices for The Trade Desk platform and offer insights on how to improve campaign effectiveness through the platform’s functionality. Mentor clients leveraging this expertise.
- Combine data analysis and client feedback to create optimisation strategies and provide solutions for complex campaigns to meet client objectives.
- Work closely with Product Management and other cross-functional teams to help define features and enhancements to improve the platform.
- Help build our trading best practices, including creating training collateral and internal resources.
- Understand and effectively communicate The Trade Desk’s value proposition, technology, processes, and partnerships, as they relate to growth of current client accounts.
WHO YOU ARE:
- Experienced specialist within programmatic, hands-on DSP and/or online ad operations experience (7+ years).
- Experience managing hands-on keyboards Traders, Operations, or Activation teams (3+ years).
- Strong at building and developing client relationships as well as confidently presenting in front of them.
- Proven track record of growing accounts by forging a strong relationship with clients, understanding their objectives and recommending best strategies.
- Strong leadership skills: ability to set and communicate goals, measure accomplishments, hold team accountable, and give useful feedback; delegate and develop; keep people informed, and provide effective coaching.
- Strong quantitative skills coupled with a real passion for mining insights from very large datasets
- Excel at telling stories with data, leveraging strong data visualization to influence and engage clients.
- Experience in actively leveraging AI‑driven tools and methodologies to enhance analysis, optimize workflows, or elevate client recommendations.
- Outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a get-it-done-now start-up environment.
- Effective time management skills – ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
- Self-starter – able to tackle new clients or territories with little guidance.
- Quick learner – able to rapidly grasp new technology and product change.
The Trade Desk akzeptiert keine unaufgeforderten Lebensläufe von Personalvermittlern. Für den Fall, dass ein von einem Personalvermittler, ohne Vertrag, eingereichter Kandidat eingestellt wird, werden keine Honorare gezahlt; derartige Lebensläufe gelten als alleiniges Eigentum von The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk ist ein Arbeitgeber, der allen gleiche Chancen bietet. Alle Aspekte einer Anstellung basieren auf Leistung, Kompetenz und unseren Geschäftsanforderungen. Wir unterscheiden nicht nach ethnischer Herkunft, Hautfarbe, Religion, Familienstand, Alter, nationaler Herkunft, Abstammung, körperlicher oder geistiger Beeinträchtigung, Gesundheitszustand, Schwangerschaft, genetischen Informationen, Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität, Veteranen-Status oder einem anderen Status, der durch staatliches oder lokales Recht geschützt ist.
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