Director & Associate General Counsel

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:

Director, Associate General Counsel – Product & Privacy  
The Trade Desk is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company and we require excellent leadership at all levels.  We are looking for an experienced product counsel who has excellent judgement, loves to analyze complex issues and find creative solutions.  We are looking for someone able to collaborate cross-functionally while also balancing competing demands, working independently, maintaining a positive attitude and, hopefully, contributing some humor to our legal slack channel. The Trade Desk is a company that will invest in its employees’ professional development— as we grow, we want our employees to grow with us.

The role of Director, Associate General Counsel, Product & Privacy, is a fantastic opportunity for a candidate who is driven to take a collaborative approach to building privacy into products that are redefining the digital advertising ecosystem. The candidate who fills this role will be part of a global team that is building the critical, privacy-focused technologies that are designed to build a trusted advertising ecosystem for the open internet and Connected TV.

The role will focus on legal counselling to product and business teams to mitigate legal risk in all phases of product development.

What you'll do:

• Exercise strong judgment and provide legal leadership on strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with the company's product and business teams from the initial stages of product development and beyond to identify potential legal risks and provide risk-mitigation strategies.
•  Work closely with internal business partners to understand their perspectives, processes, applications, projects, and technologies to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and best practices while guiding them to the successful resolution of projects.
• Distill and communicate complex legal concepts in layman’s terms.
• Educate employees, partners, and clients about current and emerging privacy issues facing the company and the industry.
• Maintain an up to date understanding of the intersection of global privacy laws and advertising technology, and how the use of cookies, tags, pixels, AI/ML models, and other mechanisms customize and personalize digital advertising.
• Collaborate with legal and business team members to improve processes.

Who you are: 

• Education: J.D. degree from ABA accredited law school.
• Bar: Must be a member in good standing of an applicable state.
• 12+ years of legal experience 
• Understanding of  legal issues impacting the digital advertising industry including self-regulatory guidelines, privacy and data governance issues and legislation, consumer protection, and global privacy laws & regulations.
• Technology savvy.
• Experience advising on advertising technology matters.
• Detailed understanding of US state privacy laws preferred.
• Excellent critical thinking and analytical writing skills. 
• Decisive, forward thinking, energetic and accountable, with a strong work ethic.
• Ability to work well under pressure with diligence, organization, and high autonomy.
• Ability to boil complex issues down to the bottom line and provide practical, business-friendly advice that can be operationalized.
• Builds effective relationships inside and outside the company established on trust, respect, and confidence.
• Moves fluidly between macro strategic thinking to tactical excellence 
• Makes good executional and planning decisions.
• Works directly with business team leadership to provide and obtain information and build consensus regarding product strategy and project deadlines 
• Proactively identifies and leads execution of projects and initiatives that impact the team, department, and company, taking into consideration cross-department collaboration

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.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.