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The Trade Desk

Builds software for buying digital advertising

Senior Technical Program Manager - Talent Acquisition

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Have 7 or more years of experience in Talent Acquisition Operations, Recruiting Operations, People Technology, or technical program management supporting a talent or human resources function.
  • Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of complex cross-functional programs at global or multi-region scale, including scoping, building, launching, and measuring programs.
  • Have hands-on applicant tracking system administration and configuration experience; Greenhouse is strongly preferred, and comparable depth in Workday Recruiting, SmartRecruiters, Lever, iCIMS, or Ashby is considered. Be able to describe configuration personally built.
  • Have led at least one system implementation or migration end to end, including requirements, data mapping, testing, cutover, and post-launch support.
  • Have process design and change management experience, including turning an ambiguous, undocumented way of working into a documented, adopted standard.
  • Have working fluency with reporting and analytics, including defining measures, building dashboards, and reasoning about data models and data quality. Comfort with business intelligence tooling is required.
  • Have strong written communication skills and be able to produce an executive one-pager, a status narrative, and a decision document that leaders can act on without a meeting.
  • Have a track record of influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority, including communicating refusals with context and maintaining scope, sequencing, and quality.
  • Be comfortable taking vague, politically complex problems and developing scoped plans.

Responsibilities

  • Own strategic, high-visibility, cross-functional Talent Acquisition Operations programs from scoping through launch, adoption, and measurement, including programs without an established playbook.
  • Build and maintain project plans, milestones, dependency maps, risk, action, issue, and decision logs, and operating rhythms to keep stakeholders aligned and accountable.
  • Coordinate work across Recruiting, People, Legal, Procurement, Finance, Business Engineering, and Talent Acquisition Operations pillars, escalating risks early with clear recommendations.
  • Design and improve the intake experience, including routing, request quality, acknowledgement, ownership assignment, deflection, and status visibility.
  • Support the alignment forum, score requests by value versus effort, and make tradeoffs clear when work is sequenced, deferred, or declined.
  • Use intake patterns, escalations, and recurring pain points to inform the Now / Next / Later roadmap and attach success measures.
  • Map current processes, identify friction, design future processes, and implement changes in a way teams can adopt.
  • Create standards, runbooks, communications, and launch materials, and manage changes so they persist beyond launch week.
  • Develop training, self-service content, and feedback loops that reduce tickets, improve adoption, and shorten time to resolution.
  • Build and test applicant tracking system requisition and job templates, interview plans, scorecards, approvals, offer workflows, custom fields, automations, and notifications in partnership with Recruiting Technology.
  • Own implementation and migration programs, including requirements, data mapping, configuration, test planning, user acceptance testing, cutover, and post-go-live support.
  • Configure and administer tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint within governance, compliance, and change management guardrails.
  • Define success measures for speed, quality, adoption, satisfaction, and risk, and confirm that the required data exists before launch.
  • Create portfolio, intake, and roadmap reporting that turns data into decisions.
  • Provide clear ownership, transparent prioritization, predictable communication, and follow-through while gathering feedback from Recruiting Leadership and cross-functional partners.

Desired Qualifications

  • Greenhouse applicant tracking system experience is strongly preferred.
  • SQL is a strong plus.

About the Company

The Trade Desk

Builds software for buying digital advertising

The Trade Desk builds advertising software that agencies and brands use to buy digital ad space across streaming television, websites, mobile apps, and audio. Its Kokai platform combines campaign planning, audience selection, buying, and measurement in one workspace. Buyers bring their own customer data, choose audiences and budgets, and use automated bidding to purchase impressions from publishers and advertising exchanges. The company earns platform fees generally based on a share of client spending, plus fees for data and other services, while reporting revenue net of most supplier costs. The Trade Desk was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Ventura, California.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Ventura, CA
Founded
2009

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