About the Role
As a Senior Product Manager on the Custom Solutions team, you will own strategic initiatives end-to-end, working directly with clients to understand their needs, shape solutions, evaluate feasibility, deliver with engineering and design, and drive go-to-market strategy. This is a client-facing role with direct exposure to modern AI-first ways of working and measurable client outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Own initiatives end-to-end, managing the complete product lifecycle from client need through ideation, evaluation, build, client release, and go-to-market.
- Partner with strategic clients and account teams as a trusted product advisor, understanding their needs and delivering solutions that drive revenue growth.
- Evaluate ideas against commercial demand, feasibility, and data availability, making prioritization calls.
- Build prototypes to validate concepts with clients and align engineering before committing development resources.
- Apply AI Tools daily across research, requirements, analysis, and delivery to enhance PM work.
- Partner with engineering and data science to shape custom algorithms and ensure they deliver client value.
- Work with design and engineering to define intuitive, high-quality user experiences.
- Define positioning and packaging, lead launch plans, enable commercial teams, and measure adoption and impact after release.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 5-7 years of product management experience, ideally in advertising technology or an adjacent platform business, with a proven track record of launching complex products
- Proven 0-to-1 experience: taken products or major features from concept to launch, navigating ambiguity and validating demand.
- Client-facing experience: building consultative relationships and communicating credibly with senior and C-level client stakeholders.
- Strong data fluency: comfortable with data analysis and ML/algorithmic concepts, and able to evaluate model performance.
- Hands-on AI experience: have built AI-powered solutions or features.
- Experience shipping front-end, user-facing experiences with strong UX instincts.
- Strong understanding of the programmatic advertising landscape: players, economics, and industry trends.
- Experience crafting Product Requirements Documentation and driving cross-functional execution in a matrixed environment.
- Desire to make a cultural impact and grow as an internal leader.
Skills
- Product Management
- Advertising Technology
- Platform Business
- 0-to-1 Product Development
- Client-Facing Communication
- Data Analysis
- Machine Learning Concepts
- Algorithmic Concepts
- AI Tools
- AI-Powered Solutions
- Front-End Development
- User Experience (UX)
- Programmatic Advertising
- Product Requirements Documentation (PRD)
- Cross-functional Execution
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $137,300—$251,800 USD
Benefits
- 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
- Around 13 paid holidays per year
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Stock-based compensation grants
- Variable compensation-based incentives
- Commissions
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.
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.
- 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.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- 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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