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About the Role

The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff UX Visual Designer to define and elevate the visual and interaction design quality of its platform. This senior individual-contributor role requires exceptional visual craft, strong UX judgment, and a systems-level eye for detail to shape how the platform looks, feels, and behaves for advertisers and agency partners, bringing clarity and consistency to sophisticated, data-dense experiences.

Responsibilities

Define and champion visual design excellence, setting the bar for how the platform looks, feels, and behaves across complex, data-dense workflows.
Translate ambiguous, technical, or data-heavy problems into clear, compelling, well-crafted product experiences.
Define "good" for visual design and interaction quality across the platform, including typography, layout, motion, and information hierarchy.
Build and evolve design patterns and systems for consistency and polish across surfaces.
Partner with UX Leadership to align design quality standards with broader product and company strategy.
Lead hands-on, high-fidelity design for flagship product features from concept through launch.
Design across a range of experience types, including dashboards, workflow tools, data visualization, and AI-assisted features.
Rapidly prototype concepts to test feasibility, gather feedback, and align stakeholders.
Drive user research and usability testing to validate design decisions.
Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ensure design vision and technical feasibility evolve together.
Set the craft standard for visual and interaction design across the UX organization.
Champion strong design fundamentals applied to complex, data-dense interfaces.
Ensure experiences are accessible, inclusive, and usable.
Provide critique and design direction across the design team.
Act as a strong design voice in product strategy conversations with Product and Engineering leadership.
Identify opportunities to improve the customer experience through better visual design, interaction patterns, and information architecture.
Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and serve as a thought partner on product design direction.
Represent the customer experience perspective in cross-functional discussions.
Mentor designers across the UX organization on visual craft, interaction design, and design systems thinking.
Lead by example through visible, hands-on craft.
Contribute to a shared point of view, vocabulary, and set of patterns for the design team.
Represent The Trade Desk at industry events and design conferences.
Position TTD as a company at the forefront of thoughtful, well-crafted, customer-centered design.
Contribute to broader UX design community conversations, research, and thought leadership.

Requirements

Experienced designer with a track record of shaping the visual and interaction design of complex, data-rich products.
Combines strong craft with sound UX judgment.
Energized by turning ambiguous, technical problems into clear, confident, and considered experiences.
Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
8+ years of experience in product design or UX design, with a strong emphasis on visual and interaction design craft.
Proven track record shaping high-fidelity design execution from concept through shipped product, in a complex enterprise or platform-based product.
Exceptional visual design skills — typography, layout, color, and information hierarchy — applied to complex, data-dense interfaces.
Strong command of Figma and modern prototyping tools.
Deep interaction design expertise, including for dashboards, workflow tools, and data visualization.
Experience contributing to or evolving design systems.
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to present design vision clearly to cross-functional partners and senior leadership.
Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity and alignment in complex, fast-moving environments.
Working familiarity with AI-powered product patterns and how they show up in modern UX (preferred, not required).
Experience in adtech, martech, or enterprise SaaS with complex, data-dense interfaces (preferred).
Portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft, interaction design, and measurable impact on user experience and product outcomes.

Skills

Visual Design
Interaction Design
UX Design
Design Systems
Figma
Prototyping
Data Visualization
Typography
Layout
Color Theory
Information Hierarchy
Communication
Storytelling
User Research
Usability Testing
AI-powered product patterns (preferred)

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Staff
8+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

About the Company

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising.
Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet.
Advertising powers the content people love, supporting 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.
We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another.
The Trade Desk is transforming the way advertising is bought, sold, and consumed as a global leader in the programmatic industry.

Equal Opportunity

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.
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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