The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers –– and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency. We are proud of the culture we have built. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.

So, if you are talented, driven, creative, and eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk!

What we do:

The ideal candidate is technical, data-driven, creative, and business savvy. They have the passion and ability to contribute to the process of discovering what will delight our clients and a proven interest in driving technical projects with deep customer empathy.

The Trade Desk Product Team hires courageous, passionate PMs who set big goals and execute on them. We help you grow and challenge you with hard, meaningful work. We celebrate our successes and learn from our failures together. We value and develop strong leadership, asking our PMs to take on ambitious and often ambiguous projects that promise to extend our lead in the industry.

What you'll do:

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.

Through daily work with the engineering team, you will own the design and prioritization for various platform offerings. You will drive many aspects of platform development strategy – from gathering usage data, conducting client interviews, evaluating industry trends to designing, refining, and delivering specifications to helping deliver products for our clients.

You will be driving technical projects and providing leadership in a complex, fast-paced environment. Clients in this space are internal developers and platform services teams. As such, you will build a solid understanding of developer workflows, common use cases and appropriate access patterns.

You will also define platform life cycle and operation, working with engineering and operation teams by defining clear SLI/SLO’s and tracking it.

As an Infrastructure Product Manager at the Trade Desk, your responsibilities will include:

• Defining the product strategy and features for the next generation infrastructure services.
• Help build scalable infrastructure and platform for TTD engineers to build, host, and scale the TTD platform.
• Collaborate with the engineering managers to champion insights from the team in influencing field/stakeholder engagements.
• Integrate user studies, research, and market analysis into product requirements to enhance the end consumer experience.

Who you are: 

• You have built complex products that take years of iterations to become great.
• You can easily find answers in data, and quickly iterate on the product.
• 5+ years of Product Management or Developer experience where you demonstrated a sustained track record of making significant contributions to impactful projects.
• 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 software projects.
• Ability to solve complex, technical problems with creative solutions while managing tradeoffs.
• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Ability to solve complex, technical problems with practical, scalable solutions
• Durability and grit - sometimes solutions take creative thinking, multiple iterations while dependencies solidify. You try many different approaches to the right answer.
• Entrepreneur -- you have a strong bias for action and use compelling, data-based arguments to convince others and generate progress with meaningful results
• Excellent listening and communication skills
• Ability to write detailed specifications that clearly articulate the ‘why’ behind the problem

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.