Trading Specialist

The Trade Desk The Trade Desk · Media · London, United Kingdom · Trading

This role is for a Trading Specialist in programmatic advertising at The Trade Desk. The responsibilities include managing daily trading efforts, developing trading strategies, growing client accounts, training clients on the platform, and acting as an internal resource for product offerings. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in programmatic advertising, client-facing skills, strong communication, time management, troubleshooting, analytical abilities, and quantitative skills with a passion for insights from large datasets.

What you'd actually do

  1. Handles the day-to-day trading efforts for a portfolio of accounts, actively supporting more Senior Traders
  2. Partners with other business team members to add in-depth product knowledge and develop trading-specific strategies to achieve client goals
  3. Owns numerous accounts independently and recognises opportunities to grow accounts; playing a key role in identifying and prioritising client needs
  4. Helps to train new and existing clients in all platform operational areas, and to onboard new clients
  5. Develop areas of expertise in product offerings and acts as an internal resource for the internal business team

Skills

Required

  • programmatic advertising
  • client-facing experience
  • communication
  • time management
  • troubleshooting
  • analytical abilities
  • quantitative skills

Nice to have

  • training new clients
  • product knowledge
  • trading strategies
  • account growth
  • internal resource
  • beta testing

What the JD emphasized

  • Extensive experience within programmatic advertising
  • Client-facing experience
  • Strong quantitative skills coupled with real passion for mining insights from very large datasets