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The Trade Desk

Builds software for buying digital advertising

Product Management Intern

Year-roundUpdated
No salary listed
Internship
Bachelor's, Master's
New York, NY, USA+1 moreMore locations: Bellevue, WA, USA
In Person
ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Course work in computer science, math, statistics or other relevant fields
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office or Google App productivity software including Word / Docs, Excel / Sheets, PowerPoint / Slides
  • Gritty -- sometimes solutions take creative thinking and multiple iterations. You try many different approaches to find the right answer.
  • Collaborative -- the best Product Managers 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.
  • Entrepreneur -- As a PM you need to get out there and convince others of your ideas
  • Excellent communication/presentation skills
  • The ability to solve complex, technical problems with creative solutions while managing tradeoffs
  • Strong interest in what computing can do -- a passion for technology and how to apply that to problems of massive scale
  • Enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree program
  • Have an expected graduation date between Fall 2026 and Summer 2027
  • You can work in one of our physical office locations for the duration of your internship. Roles available in Bellevue, WA or New York, NY
Responsibilities
  • Depending on your expertise and interests, you will be placed on one of two Product Management teams: Infrastructure Core Bidding In this role, you will drive innovation in our Core Bidding Platform that both supports our business as well as empowers our customers to reach the right audience at the right time for the right price. Our bidding platform supports up to 15M impression opportunities per second that we’re evaluating on our customers' behalf.
  • As a Product Management Intern on this team, you will leverage your technical skills and curiosity as well as business stakeholders to tune and streamline bidding behavior with advanced functionality while keeping auction performance, auction fees along with system and client demands in mind.
  • You will be working with stakeholders across the company in addition to our world class engineering and data science teams to bring our shared vision real time bidding to life.
  • In this role, you will help the Measurement Product team help clients understand the performance of their advertising efforts.
  • This can include identifying ways to improve our Brand Lift Offering by creating benchmarks and helping advertisers create a test and learn agenda to deeply understand how they move consumers through the marketing funnel.
  • You will be working with stakeholders across the company to bring our shared vision for measuring programmatic advertising to life.

About the company

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The Trade Desk

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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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What believers are saying

  • Customer loyalty supports recurring activity: The Trade Desk reported retention above 95% for over a decade in August 2026.
  • Product work expands: August 2026 Zuma rollout adds AI campaign automation and simpler measurement to The Trade Desk.
  • Family healthcare costs shrink: its Los Angeles Account Manager role lists fully paid insurance premiums for employees and dependents.

What critics are saying

  • A rival controls key supply: Google is a major inventory source for The Trade Desk without guaranteed long-term access.
  • Growth slowed sharply: August 2026 results showed The Trade Desk revenue rising just 3%, versus 19% a year earlier.
  • Job stability weakened: The Trade Desk announced plans to cut about 15% of its workforce in September 2026.

What makes The Trade Desk unique

  • Buying stays independent: The Trade Desk owns no media inventory, avoiding incentives to favor its own advertising space.
  • OpenPath removes supply middlemen: advertisers connect directly with publishers and publishers see buyer bid data.
  • Identity travels beyond cookies: its open-source UID2 framework links email or phone signals across participating publishers and advertising platforms.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Wellness Program
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Holidays
  • Parental Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

3%
Yahoo Finance
Nov 2nd, 2026
Pinterest vs The Trade Desk: why one ad stock looks the better 2027 buy

Pinterest and The Trade Desk are both growth plays in digital advertising, but a Motley Fool writer favours Pinterest for 2027. In fiscal 2025, Pinterest posted revenue of $4.2 billion, up 15.8%, and net income of $416.9 million. The Trade Desk reported revenue of $2.9 billion, up 18.5%, and net income of $443.3 million. Free cash flow was $1.3 billion at Pinterest and $795.7 million at The Trade Desk. Pinterest trades at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 8.3x, against 13.5x for The Trade Desk. In the third quarter of 2026, Pinterest's monthly active users hit a record 661 million, up 10%. The Trade Desk expects third-quarter sales to fall year over year. Spending cuts by client Publicis Groupe after a public dispute have hurt its revenue.

MarTech360
Oct 29th, 2026
The Trade Desk integrates Digital Envoy's NetAcuity data to power audience targeting beyond geography.

The Trade Desk integrates Digital Envoy's NetAcuity data to power audience targeting beyond geography. Digital Envoy, a global leader in IP-based geolocation intelligence, announced that its NetAcuity data is now available on The Trade Desk platform, enabling advertisers to build more granular audiences for their digital advertising campaigns. The partnership, which is live globally, gives advertisers access to additional data signals, including internet service provider (ISP) and mobile carrier data, to create ID-based audiences for activation across the open internet, including connected TV (CTV). NetAcuity is Digital Envoy's IP intelligence solution that incorporates multiple data sources and real-world device signals to map IP addresses to geographic locations and deliver location, network, and contextual intelligence for advertising, cybersecurity, and compliance use cases. By combining NetAcuity data with The Trade Desk's audience targeting capabilities, advertisers - particularly in the technology and telecommunications sectors - can build segments that go beyond traditional geographic targeting to incorporate organization-level signals, supporting campaigns tailored to where consumers are in their relationship with a provider. A telco running a customer-switching campaign, for example, can use these signals to deliver creative that better aligns with a consumer's needs and preference. The segments are available globally at launch, including across EMEA and APAC, where limited IP visibility has historically presented challenges for precise audience targeting. These audiences are also available through The Trade Desk's Audience Unlimited offering, giving advertisers greater flexibility to combine Digital Envoy's network and carrier-level insights with other third-party data to build more precise, tailored audience segments. For advertisers in those regions, the integration provides access to more granular audience data, helping them reach relevant consumers across markets during the critical Q4 holiday season. "Advertisers are looking for greater accuracy in how they identify and reach audiences, particularly as signal availability and quality continue to fragment," said Charlie Johnson, SVP and General Manager, LocID and International, Digital Envoy. "The incorporation of NetAcuity data unlocks powerful new audience strategies that simply weren't possible with geography alone: a carrier reaching consumers based on their current provider, a technology brand reaching the organizations that matter most - now available globally on The Trade Desk." "One of the most valuable moments in telecom is when consumers are making a change - whether that's upgrading their phone, switching carriers, or bundling their internet service," said Jerome Eymery, VP, Business Development, The Trade Desk. "These moments represent significant opportunities for advertisers to connect with consumers. By bringing Digital Envoy's network and carrier-level data to our platform, we're helping advertisers find and reach relevant audiences with greater precision across the open internet."

Adweek
Oct 28th, 2026
ShopMy taps ex-trade Desk vet Jed Dederick as CRO to scale creator commerce.

ShopMy taps ex-trade Desk vet Jed Dederick as CRO to scale creator commerce. The former DSP revenue chief sees creator commerce as the next major performance channel. 2 hours ago Jed Dederick, who spent nearly fourteen years at The Trade Desk, most recently as its chief revenue officer, has joined ShopMy as its CRO. He officially started at the creator affiliate marketing platform on Oct. 13, and reports to CEO Harry Rein. At the time Dederick started at The Trade Desk, digital advertising was "a highly fragmented marketplace" where individual brands or agencies send insertion orders to individual publishers. "Through the evolution of programmatic, we uncovered the value of liquidity and automation," he said. "I see that happening in creator commerce now." The hire comes as ShopMy, launched in 2020 and valued at $1.5 Trishla is an Adweek staff reporter covering AI and tech. Recommended videos

Yahoo Finance
Oct 23rd, 2026
Trade Desk stock down 75.6% in a year as revenue growth slows to 3%, trading at 15.1x earnings

Trade Desk's revenue grew just 3% in the second quarter of 2026, and the advertising platform now expects a decline. It guided third-quarter revenue to at least $650 million, about 12% below the $739 million it reported a year earlier. Management blamed carmakers and consumer goods makers, which together bring in around 25% of business. Tariffs and oil prices have hit both sectors, and some brands have cut budgets. The stock has fallen 75.6% over the past year, while the S&P 500 gained 15.1%. The shares trade at 15.1 times trailing earnings, against 23.0 for the index. Net income over twelve months was $407 million, close to the prior period's $417 million. Trade Desk is cutting 15% of staff. It spent $78 million on buybacks in the quarter and holds about $1.5 billion in cash against $434 million of debt.

invidis
Oct 23rd, 2026
Retail architecturegstv appoints claire Wyatt as new Chief Growth Officer.

Retail architecturegstv appoints claire Wyatt as new Chief Growth Officer. Claire Wyatt is set to lead GSTV's expansion in retail media. She has previously held leadership roles at companies such as The Trade Desk, Walmart DSP and Albertsons Media Collective. October 23, 2026 by Warren Holden GSTV, a US digital media platform serving the convenience and fuel sectors, has announced the appointment of a new Chief Growth Officer. Claire Wyatt, former leader at The Trade Desk and Albertsons Media Collective, will oversee the network's growth strategy, corporate development, strategic partnerships, and key value-creation initiatives. Wyatt has worked on both the retail and platform sides of retail media. In her most recent roles, she led Retail Sector Sales at The Trade Desk and Walmart DSP. Before that, she was VP of Business Strategy and Marketing Science at Albertsons Media Collective, where she helped design and launch the network in 2022. Throughout her career, Wyatt has also received several industry accolades. This year, for example, she was named a Business Excellence winner in the Path to Purchase Institute's Women of Excellence Awards. A focus on deepening partnerships. Wyatt will join GSTV's Senior Leadership Team and will lead the retailer partnerships, retailer strategy and operations teams. Part of her mandate is to focus on deepening partnerships with major retail networks, helping convenience and fuel retailers to build and grow their media businesses, and expanding data and inventory partnerships to optimize value for advertisers and retail partners. Eric Kozik, the recently appointed CEO of GSTV, to whom Wyatt will report directly, said of the new appointment: "We've set a clear direction for GSTV's next phase in retail media. Claire's job is to turn that strategy into a business."

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