Senior Programmatic Trading Specialist

The Trade Desk The Trade Desk · Media · New York, NY · Trading

This role is for a Senior Programmatic Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves spearheading strategy development, leading data-driven conversations, consulting with clients on campaign goals, and operating as a power user of the TTD platform. It also requires collaborating with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to solve complex technical problems and troubleshooting advanced technical issues. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of consultative, client-facing experience in ad tech or data-heavy industries, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and advanced Excel skills, with experience in R, Python, or PowerBI being a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Spearhead strategy development to ensure clients stay competitive in key areas including first-party data management and activation, CTV consolidation and retail measurement.
  2. Lead data-driven conversations utilizing TTD platform and custom reporting to provide insights and tell client-relevant stories to provide a full picture of advertising’s impact on business results.
  3. Consult with clients on their campaign goals and strategies to ensure they are maximizing the value TTD’s platform provides
  4. Operate as a power user of TTD’s UI and empower clients to also become power users to most effectively plan, execute, optimize and build on successful advertising campaigns.
  5. Collaborate with Account Management and Sales Executives to educate your clients, grow your portfolio of business and ensure buyers are up-to-date on TTD’s constantly evolving suite of products and solutions

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of consultative, client-facing work in ad tech, digital marketing, finance or other data-heavy industries
  • Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Ability to distill complex, data-heavy information into simple but powerful stories and insights
  • Strong interest in learning the underlying mechanics of a platform
  • Ability to act as a conduit between clients and product teams
  • Comfortable with cross-functional collaboration
  • Ability to navigate ambiguous and complex problems and situations
  • Effective time management skills
  • Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
  • Advanced MS Excel skills

Nice to have

  • DSP experience
  • R experience
  • Python experience
  • PowerBI experience
  • other analytical language and tool experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of consultative, client-facing work in ad tech (DSP experience is a plus!), digital marketing, finance or other data-heavy industries.
  • Advanced MS Excel skills and the ability to efficiently wrangle extremely large data sets (R, Python, PowerBI and other analytical language and tool experience is a plus!)