WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR: 

We are looking for driven Product Managers who learn fast, who are humble and value teamwork; who are hungry, and believe they can make our customer's world a much better place. The ideal candidate will be technical, data-driven, creative, business savvy, and love elegant user experience. They will be growth-oriented and able to strive for product-market fit with their teams.  

The kind of person who joins The Trade Desk Product Team is fearless, courageous, passionate, and willing to dream big and then execute on it. We are committed to helping you grow, challenging you with hard, meaningful work, and celebrating our successes and failures together. Yes, we do fail at times because we believe the risk is part of making big bets. So we take the risks and learn from them. 

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING: 

The Trade Desk is a rapidly growing company, as our CEO often says: "we're only 2% done". We are facing the biggest paradigm shift in advertising in the last century as the industry moves towards data-driven, results-oriented advertising.  

As a Product Manager on the Core Workflows team, you’ll drive improvements to some of the most critical and frequently used workflows in our product. You’ll serve as a key connector between executive stakeholders, engineers, researchers, and UX designers to ensure cohesive, high-impact solutions. You will be the pivotal link between executive stakeholders, engineers, researchers, and UX designers. You will champion a user-centric approach, deeply understanding and advocating for user needs and preferences. Your decisions will be data-driven, rooted in analytics and user insights. Additionally, you will align your strategies with our company's core values and long-term objectives. You will need to navigate ambiguous situations to establish clarity through well-defined execution plans. This role also entails collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to develop strategic product roadmaps that align with business goals and user needs.  

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE: 

• 3+ years of Product Management experience or relevant experience
• Background in ad technology and user experience/user interface 
• Passion -- your work matters. Your features matter. You care and give your all. 
• Grit -- sometimes solutions take creative thinking and multiple iterations. You try many different approaches to the right answer. 
• Collaborative -- the best PMs are not necessarily those with the best ideas, but those that ensure the right thing gets done. 
• Selfless -- Product Management is about making sure the best work gets done by the team, and making sure they share in the credit. 
• Empathy -- As a PM you are the voice of the customer and need to represent them from a position of deep understanding. 
• Entrepreneur -- as a PM you need to get out there and convince others of your ideas 
• Excellent communication/presentation skills both in large and small groups. 
• A sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful projects 
• Ability to solve complex, technical problems with creative solutions while managing tradeoffs 
• Strong interest in what computing can do -- a passion for technology and how to apply that to problems of massive scale  

Nice-to-haves 

• Experience working with distributed teams - we have over 20 offices globally