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.
Who We Are
The Trade Desk has also built something beyond our technology: a culture grounded in trust, ownership, and the belief that ambitious, principled people can change an industry. We value intellectual honesty, diverse perspectives, and teams that push each other to do better work. We celebrate big bets, learn from failures, and care deeply about getting things right — for our customers and for each other. If that resonates with you, we'd love to talk.
Who We're Looking For
Reporting and data analytics represent one of the most significant areas of investment at The Trade Desk right now. After building one of the most powerful programmatic platforms in the world, we are making a comprehensive, ground-up commitment to transform how our customers interact with their data — redesigning reporting experiences across the full stack, with a mandate to build something world-class. The person who joins at this moment will help define what that looks like.
The scale of the data problem is also exceptional. The Trade Desk operates at a level matched by only a handful of companies globally — processing trillions of events, across billions of ad impressions, in real time, across every channel and market. The technical and product complexity that creates is genuinely hard, and genuinely interesting. Outside of a small number of major technology companies, few environments offer this combination of data scale, business impact, and the greenfield mandate to reimagine what's possible.
This is a senior, high-visibility role, and we are looking for a particular kind of product leader: someone who has built data products that practitioners genuinely rely on, who understands the ad tech ecosystem from the inside, and who brings both the strategic range to define a multi-year vision and the rigor to see it through in the details. Product taste, technical fluency, and deep user empathy are not trade-offs here — we need all three.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Staff Product Manager, you will operate as a senior individual contributor — owning a meaningful product domain end-to-end, setting the bar for product quality and strategy, and influencing across the organization without formal authority. This is not a people management role. It is a domain ownership role, and the expectation is that you lead through expertise, judgment, and the quality of what you ship.
Product Strategy & Vision
- Define and own the multi-year product strategy for TTD's reporting experiences, spanning the data exploration tools, visualization surfaces, delivery capabilities, proactive insights, and AI-powered interfaces that advertisers and agencies rely on to understand and act on their media investments.
- Identify and prioritize white-space opportunities across the reporting and analytics landscape, including emerging approaches to data delivery, AI-assisted analysis, and data collaboration.
- Set the strategic direction for how TTD competes and leads in reporting, leveraging the platform's structural advantages in data transparency and openness — the log-level access and data visibility that walled gardens cannot offer — as a foundation for differentiated experiences that create unique customer value.
- Define TTD's approach to AI-native reporting interfaces — including natural language querying, automated insight delivery, and agentic workflows that anticipate user needs and close the loop between data and action — with a clear and grounded view on where these capabilities create genuine user value.
- Build the business case for reporting investments with the executive team, influencing resource allocation and enterprise-level product decisions.
Platform & Ecosystem Ownership
- Own end-to-end product vision for TTD's reporting infrastructure — the data exploration and query layer, in-platform visualization and dashboards, reporting APIs, and scheduled and cloud-based data delivery.
- Define product strategy for reporting experiences that operate at internet scale — trillions of data events, billions of ad impressions, global markets and channels — and bring the technical ambition and product judgment required to make that scale invisible to the end user.
- Define requirements for data pipelines, query performance, API design, and semantic data models that support reporting at scale — with reliability, speed, and data integrity embedded at the foundation.
- Partner closely with engineering and data science on platform architecture decisions that affect the performance and scalability of reporting infrastructure across a global, high-throughput environment.
- Lead product strategy for data collaboration capabilities, including log-level data sharing and integrations with partner platforms, clean rooms, and data ecosystems.
Cross-Functional & Organizational Leadership
- Lead and align senior stakeholders across product, engineering, data science, commercial, and executive leadership on the reporting roadmap and its dependencies.
- Act as a force multiplier across commercial teams — enabling solutions, business development, and partnerships to engage clients with product credibility and depth on reporting and analytics capabilities.
- Partner with marketing and GTM teams on the positioning, packaging, and rollout of new reporting capabilities to customers and to the broader market.
- Champion data quality and trust as foundational product requirements, fostering a culture internally — and externally with customers — where data is understood, relied upon, and acted on with confidence.
External Influence & Industry Leadership
- Cultivate a continuous external feedback loop with key customers, agencies, and partners to stay ahead of market needs and translate those signals into roadmap priorities.
- Represent TTD externally with clients, agency partners, and industry stakeholders as a product authority on advertising data, reporting, and analytics.
- Help shape the future of data collaboration across the programmatic ecosystem — defining how The Trade Desk enables privacy-first data sharing, clean room integrations, and data partnerships that allow customers to activate and measure across their data assets while maintaining governance, compliance, and user trust.
- Build TTD's credibility in the market by demonstrating a deep understanding of how advertisers and agencies interact with data across their workflows, and how TTD's platform serves those needs in ways others cannot.
What You Bring to the Table
- 6+ years of product management experience building products at scale, ideally in ad tech, programmatic advertising, or a data-intensive B2B SaaS environment.
- Deep familiarity with the campaign lifecycle — pre-campaign planning and forecasting, campaign launch validation, in-flight performance monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization workflows, and post-flight reporting and analysis. You've built for users who live this daily, or you've lived it yourself.
- Strong track record building data products — query and reporting tools, dashboards, APIs, insights surfaces, or scheduled delivery. You know what makes a data product feel fast, trusted, and delightful, and what kills trust the moment a number is wrong.
- You treat data as a product. You bring PM-level rigor to how data itself is structured, defined, and delivered — not just how it's presented. You champion data quality, consistency, and trust as foundational requirements, and foster a culture internally and externally where data is genuinely understood, valued, and acted on.
- Technical fluency. You can go deep with engineering on systems architecture, data pipeline design, API design, semantic data models, query performance, and latency tradeoffs. You don't write the code, but you pressure-test designs, spot unnecessary complexity, and engage credibly on the technical dimensions of data products at scale without being led by them.
- Exceptional product taste and judgment. You hold a high bar for quality of execution and user experience. You know the difference between an MLP (most lovable product) and an MVP that ships and sits. You fight for the former.
- User empathy as a practice, not a talking point. You spend real time with customers. You dog food the products you manage. You are driven by genuine curiosity about user problems and motivated by solving them.
- Bias toward shipping. You move with urgency. You know how to cut scope without cutting value, and you drive teams to decisions with conviction. You are uncomfortable sitting still.
- High agency and not bound by swim lanes. You take accountability for solving complete problems end-to-end for users — not just within your direct remit. You'll influence, advocate, and partner across organizational boundaries to ensure users get the full solution, not a partial one.
- Commercial instincts. You feel at home in a customer conversation and understand how to connect product investments to business outcomes. You partner naturally with sales, solutions, and marketing on GTM and customer adoption.
- Exceptional communication — written and verbal. You can articulate a vision in one paragraph or one slide. You drive alignment across a globally distributed organization, horizontally and vertically, without losing nuance or momentum.
- Durability and grit — sometimes the right solution takes creative thinking and multiple iterations while dependencies solidify. You try many different approaches to find the right answer, and you don't quit when it's hard.
Nice to Have
- Experience building AI-native, agentic, or MCP-powered product experiences, or a strong point of view on where AI adds genuine value in analytics and reporting workflows.
- Familiarity with data collaboration, clean rooms, or log-level data access products.
- Hands-on experience at a DSP, SSP, agency trading desk, or programmatic platform — you've managed campaigns yourself, or you've built tools for people who do at scale.
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
$201,400—$251,800 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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