Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

Channels

Updated on 12/9/2024

The Trade Desk

The Trade Desk

1,001-5,000 employees

Demand-side platform for digital advertising

Data & Analytics
Consulting
Consumer Software

Compensation Overview

$181k - $227kAnnually

+ Stock-based Compensation + Sales-based Incentives + Commissions

Senior

San Francisco, CA, USA

Eligible candidates must be residents of NY, CO, CA, or WA.

Category
Product Management
Product
Required Skills
Data Science
Product Management
Requirements
  • 5+ years of Product Management experience where you demonstrated a sustained track record of making significant contributions to impactful projects.
  • Significant Product Management experience across diverse marketing channels. This includes an expertise in various channels like connected TV.
  • A strong understanding of key buyer activities such as planning, activation and measurement.
  • Product Management experience within AdTech.
  • A sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful software projects.
  • You have built complex products that take years of iterations to become great.
  • Excellent communication/presentation skills both in large and small groups.
  • Ability to solve complex, technical problems with creative solutions while managing tradeoffs.
  • Excellent communication/presentation skills both in large and small groups.
  • Entrepreneur -- you have a strong bias for action and use compelling, data-based arguments to convince others and generate progress with meaningful results.
  • Durability and grit - sometimes solutions take creative thinking and multiple iterations while dependencies solidify. You try many different approaches to the right answer.
  • Ability to write detailed specifications and vision documents that clearly articulate the ‘why’ behind the problem.
  • Strong interest in what computing can do -- a passion for technology and how to apply that to problems of massive scale.
  • Passion -- your work matters. Your features matter. You care and give your all.
  • 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 product manager you are the voice of the customer and need to represent them from a position of deep understanding.
Responsibilities
  • You will own the vision, roadmap and execution to support channels within The Trade Desk.
  • This can include working on measurement, data science models, data engineering pipelines and UI/UX experiences that complement that.
  • You will collaborate with cross-functional partners in other organizations, while also displaying the ability to 'show up senior' in frequent executive forums.
  • You will work with stakeholders across our UX/UI, Data Partnerships, Data Science, and Engineering Teams helping think through trade-offs in workflow implementations, visualizations, model approaches, and customer impact.
  • You will also need to build a deep customer relationship with our agency, brand, and publisher partners to make products a success.

The Trade Desk provides a demand-side platform (DSP) that allows advertisers to purchase digital advertising space automatically across various channels, including display, social media, and connected TV. The platform uses real-time bidding (RTB) to facilitate live auctions for ad impressions, giving clients the ability to optimize their campaigns effectively. What sets The Trade Desk apart is its focus on transparency in measurement and reporting, enabling advertisers to see the performance of their campaigns clearly. The company's goal is to help clients achieve better advertising results while generating revenue through platform usage fees and additional services like data analytics.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$80.2M

Headquarters

Ventura, California

Founded

2009

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

5%

1 year growth

30%

2 year growth

30%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Increased adoption of Unified ID 2.0 enhances privacy-conscious advertising solutions.
  • The rise of programmatic audio advertising expands The Trade Desk's market opportunities.
  • 5G network expansion boosts demand for video advertising services.

What critics are saying

  • Ventura faces competition from established smart TV OS players like Roku and Amazon.
  • Spotify's SAX expansion increases competition in the audio advertising space.
  • Data privacy concerns may arise from integration with platforms like Evidnt.

What makes The Trade Desk unique

  • The Trade Desk offers a self-service platform for data-driven digital advertising campaigns.
  • It provides transparency in measurement and reporting for ad campaign performance.
  • The company is developing Ventura, a new smart TV operating system.

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