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 focused on digital advertising. The role involves collaborating with internal teams and clients to drive advertiser performance, troubleshoot campaigns, analyze data, and provide platform expertise. It requires experience in ad tech or data-heavy industries, strong quantitative and client-facing skills, and platform knowledge.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with both Account Managers and Business Development colleagues while mentoring other Traders to help drive advertiser performance and account growth
  2. Troubleshoot campaign setup and performance issues across multiple channels including Display, Online Video, and Connected TV
  3. Provide feedback to Product Managers to ideate on platform and product improvements
  4. Utilize excel and other advanced analytics tools, such as Tableau or Power BI, to analyze large sets of data and create actionable insights
  5. Be comfortable presenting data and insights to client stakeholders

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of consultative, client-facing work within ad tech, digital marketing, finance or other data-heavy, industries
  • hands-on keyboard DSP experience
  • Comfortable with client management, day to day communication, and presenting in front of clients
  • Strong ability to communicate complex topics to agency and brand direct stakeholders
  • Effective time management skills
  • Fluency in understanding the DSP/Ad Tech landscape
  • Strong quantitative skills using tools such as MS Excel, Vertica and Power BI
  • Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and internal stakeholders as well as work independently on daily tasks

Nice to have

  • ideally experience working in TTD's platform

What the JD emphasized

  • DSP experience
  • client-facing work
  • analyze large sets of data