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About the Role

The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Product Manager to shape the data platform that powers its global advertising business. This role offers an opportunity to influence foundational capabilities, enabling teams to move faster, make better decisions, and deliver more value to customers. You will help ensure the data platform evolves with the business, supporting new AI and agent-driven workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead product vision, strategy, and priorities for the data platform.
Develop a clear point of view on platform evolution and opportunities.
Translate vision into a multi-year strategy and actionable roadmap with priorities, tradeoffs, and measures of success.
Understand business direction by building relationships with leaders across product, engineering, data science, and business functions.
Identify data capabilities needed for future plans and surface gaps.
Turn needs across teams into shared capabilities by understanding user workflows and constraints.
Prioritize investments that create value across the platform.
Partner with engineering leaders on data ingestion, processing, storage, discovery, and serving.
Write clear product vision and requirements documents.
Evaluate options and make informed tradeoffs across performance, reliability, flexibility, cost, and time to value.
Earn alignment and champion the platform by explaining the business value of investments.
Build compelling investment cases and align stakeholders around priorities.
Help teams understand platform capabilities and effective usage.
Establish expectations for data quality, freshness, discoverability, access, and reliability.
Advocate for clear interfaces, documentation, and self-service workflows.
Break long-term investments into useful increments and coordinate dependencies, migrations, and adoption.
Balance new capabilities with improvements to existing foundations.
Keep the roadmap responsive to evolving business needs and technical understanding.
Define success through platform outcomes like faster product delivery, shorter onboarding times, greater reuse, stronger reliability, and better cost efficiency.
Measure platform impact using usage data and user feedback.
Follow through when an investment falls short of expectations.

Requirements

6+ years of product management experience, including substantial experience building data platforms, infrastructure, or technical products at scale.
Experience leading initiatives spanning multiple teams from strategy through delivery and adoption.
Exceptional communication and organizational influence skills.
Ability to make complex technical ideas understandable without losing critical details.
Experience writing compelling strategy and requirements documents.
Ability to explain the business value of foundational work.
Experience building alignment with directors, VPs, and technical leaders.
Ability to navigate competing priorities and challenge assumptions constructively.
Ability to drive decisions without formal authority.
Experience setting a platform vision and strategy.
Experience translating needs across products or business areas into a coherent roadmap for shared capabilities.
Ability to connect near-term decisions to a longer-term direction.
Ability to distinguish durable needs from uncertain possibilities.
Ability to explain what to invest in now and what can wait.
Deep technical fluency in data systems, including data ingestion, batch and streaming processing, storage and query systems, data modeling, APIs, and implications of schema evolution and downstream dependencies.
Ability to engage credibly with engineers on architecture and reason through tradeoffs involving throughput, latency, reliability, scalability, and cost.
Hands-on fluency with data, including strong SQL skills.
Comfort exploring datasets, investigating quality issues, and using evidence to test assumptions.
Understanding of how data definitions, granularity, lineage, and freshness affect products and decisions.
A product mindset for internal platforms, treating user teams as customers.
Investment in understanding user workflows and caring about developer experience and adoption.
Recognition that a capability creates value when successfully used.
Strong judgment and independent execution.
Ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems.
Ability to prioritize across competing needs.
Ability to work closely with engineering to deliver useful increments.
Taking responsibility for results and continuous product improvement after launch.

Skills

Product Management
Data Platforms
Infrastructure
Technical Products
Strategy
Roadmap Development
Stakeholder Management
Communication
Organizational Influence
Technical Fluency
Data Systems
SQL
Data Exploration
Problem Solving
Prioritization
Execution
Developer Experience
Software Engineering
Data Engineering
Analytics Engineering
Digital Advertising
Programmatic Platforms
AI
Agent-driven Workflows
Platform Migrations
Data System Consolidation

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Staff
6+ years of product management experience

Salary/Compensations

$201,400—$251,800 USD

Benefits

Eligibility for stock-based compensation grants
Variable compensation-based incentives
Commissions
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
Competitive benefits package

About the Company

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising.
Over 3,000 employees across more than 30 offices.
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.
Brands and agencies rely on The Trade Desk to reach customers and grow businesses responsibly.
The scale of the platform brings unique technical challenges.
Culture grounded in trust, ownership, and the belief that ambitious, principled people can change an industry.
Values intellectual honesty, diverse perspectives, and teams that push each other to do better work.
Celebrates big bets, learns from failures, and cares deeply about getting things right.

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.
Please reach out to us at accommodations@thetradedesk.com to request an accommodation or discuss any accessibility needs you may require to access our Company Website or navigate any part of the hiring process.
Any information you share will be handled confidentially and will not impact our hiring decisions.