Senior Staff Product Manager

thetradedesk

Los Angeles

Posted Aug 10, 2026

Full-time
Product Management

Job description

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.

The Team

The GTM Product Team develops intelligent systems and platform capabilities that power The Trade Desk’s global operations at scale. We collaborate with Sales, Business Development, Client Services, Revenue Operations, Legal, Finance, and HR to resolve complex operational challenges using data-driven design and scalable architecture. As these workflows evolve, we are rethinking enterprise software to be more intelligent, context-aware, and proactive. We believe the next generation of products will work alongside people, helping teams reason across complex processes, surface insights in real time, and make faster, more confident decisions.

The Role

Product Managers at The Trade Desk are strategic builders, product thinkers, and operators who thrive in ambiguity and move quickly from concept to execution. This is a senior role for a PM ready to own a GTM domain end to end and set the standard others follow. You'll own the strategy and roadmap for products that power our global go-to-market organization, frame net-new problems before anyone asks, and be the person GTM, Rev Ops, and business leaders rely on for the roadmap and the hard, ambiguous calls.

What you'll do (and who you are)

You've owned a domain or multiple medium to large initiatives concurrently end to end under real ambiguity, set a standard your team adopted, and built an approach others actually use.

Own a GTM domain end to end. Set a stable, year-long north-star metric and a 9–12 month roadmap for your products, and routinely frame and solve net-new GTM problems with no guidance.

See around corners on the platform. Anticipate how changes to the TTD platform, spend, pacing, optimization ripple into GTM workflows and outcomes like forecasting and pacing-driven recommendations, and design for it.

Make AI the default, and lift the team. You get real value from AI and help teammates do the same through approaches that get adopted because they work, not because they're AI. You know when AI isn't the answer, and you drive new ways of working with evidence-backed, sometimes contrarian thinking.

Prototype instead of writing specs. A working mockup (Figma, Magic Patterns, an AI-built prototype) beats a long doc for compressing alignment and pressure-testing an idea. You'd rather show than tell.

Ground everything in real users. Model direct user contact with Sales, Revenue Operations, Finance, and Client Services, so your decisions come from real problems, and define what good looks like for the team along the way.

Own outcomes, and unblock others. Set and track success metrics for the domain and drive decisions from them. Resolve misalignment up to exec-level partners, communicate with no ambiguity, and remove blockers for the people around you, not just yourself.

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.

[LA JOBS ONLY] The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.

[SF JOBS ONLY] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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

$151,100—$277,000 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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