Product Management Intern

The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. We have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. 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.

Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally- connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small- to medium-sized workplaces globally.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:We are looking for driven Product Management Interns who learn fast, who are humble, who value teamwork, who are hungry, and who believe they can make our customer’s world a much better place. The ideal candidates will be technical, business savvy, and love problem solving. 

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. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING: In this role, you will help the Product team create instruments for acquiring media for advertising, that leverages real-time data. These instruments are a foundational element of accessing the $1T/yr advertising market. 
We need you to work with large datasets to characterize the behavior of the real-time advertising market, leverage and possibly improve existing models for advertising volume forecast, and use creative thinking based on solid econometrics frameworks. While the foundation of these instruments is mathematical, they also need to be adopted at scale in an already existing market, thus, they should strive to be easy to understand, and to be compelling to internal and external stakeholders. A successful outcome of this internship is the preparation of a document that outlines our plans.WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE: 

• Course work in economics and quantitative econometrics, at the advanced undergraduate, graduate or post-doc level.
  
• Ability to harmonize the mathematics of a theoretical model with the expectations of stakeholders who may not have an advanced grasp of these topics. 
• Command of a toolset to query, analyze and model large datasets, including SQL, python, databricks. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office productivity software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint to create materials to share with stakeholders
• Excellent written communication and strong presentation skills both in large and small groups. 
• Strong interest in applying technology and economics theory to a novel field, addressing problems in the advertising market.
• Gritty -- 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. 
• Empathic -- As a PM you are the voice of the customer and need to represent them from a position of deep understanding. 
• Strong interest in what computing can do -- a passion for technology and how to apply that to problems of massive scale .
• Have an expected graduation date between Fall 2025 and Summer 2026
• Can work in one of our physical office locations for the duration of your internship. Role is available in Boston, MA.

WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR:

Do you want to work on a meaningful and impactful project that makes a difference? Are you eager to innovate? - to work on unsolved problems where you are responsible for the outcome. Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you looking to join a trust-based, globally-connected team, where your contributions will make a meaningful difference?    
What and how you can contribute is what’s important to us. Our consideration is not limited by the kind of education you have or the specific technologies you have experience with. We care about having good people to pitch in. Our culture is creative, energetic, and collaborative. Those aren’t perks – those are just the way we do business.

If this sounds like you, we welcome your application and invite you to find out why The Trade Desk has been named to the Fortune Future 50 list and the list of 100 fastest growing companies as well as Yello naming The Trade Desk a Top 100 Internship Program of 2023 and why we received the Intern Growth Award!