The Trade Desk is looking to solve the problem of creating a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising, handling over 1 trillion queries per day, and building a better media ecosystem.
Requirements
- 13+ years of software development experience, including building and maintaining production systems.
- 5+ years of experience managing managers and/or leading multiple teams through senior technical leaders.
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, API design, and cloud infrastructure, able to guide architecture and tradeoffs at scale.
- Proven ability to run complex, cross-functional programs with high ambiguity, competing priorities, and external stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of modern software development practices (engineering excellence, operational rigor, delivery mechanisms).
- Experience operating in an Agile environment across multiple concurrent initiatives and geographically distributed teams.
- Ad-tech domain experience is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives with ambiguous requirements, align stakeholders, and drive execution to measurable outcomes.
- Lead and develop multiple teams across regions (including people leaders and senior technical leaders), build a culture of high standards, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Define and execute the technical vision and strategy for your area, balance near-term delivery with reusable foundations and long-term platform leverage.
- Make portfolio-level decisions on what to build, what to standardize, and what to decline, ensure capacity is aligned to the highest-impact work.
- Drive architectural direction and quality at scale through reference architectures, integration patterns, data contracts, and appropriate security/privacy guardrails.
- Establish clear operating mechanisms for intake and prioritization, delivery governance, escalation paths, postmortems, and support models for production systems.
- Partner effectively across Product, Solution Consulting, Technical Account Management, Business Development, Data Science, and platform engineering to align roadmaps, manage expectations, and resolve escalations.
Other
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field (or equivalent experience).
- Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management, able to align teams and drive decisions with clarity and credibility.
- Ability to work in a dynamic, globally-connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem.
- Must be a resident of CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, or Washington DC.
- Must be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants.
