Data Partnerships Director (Measurement)

About the Company

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more. Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.

The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another.

About the Team

Data Partnerships is the team that identifies, negotiates with, and manages the providers of data that power many of The Trade Desk’s products (think audiences, measurement, identity, and more). We pride ourselves on maintaining a robust and vibrant marketplace of data to give our clients a breadth of choice in how they operate on the platform. With over 200 distinct partner relationships, we have a lot of logistics to manage, performance to monitor, and reports to derive and deliver — all in the spirit of maintaining data marketplace vibrancy through growth.

Responsibilities

• Identify, negotiate, contract, integrate, manage, optimize, and rationalize data partners to support advertisers' needs on the platform.
• Partner with Product and Commercial teams to develop a strategic roadmap to drive increased usage of Audience data products.
• Maintain regular communications and checkpoints with partners to report on performance, innovation, and future opportunities that leverage their data to influence advertisers' campaigns.
• Work with commercial teams to evangelize, educate, and grow the use of partner offerings.
• Facilitate communication internally and externally related to partnerships (demands, strategies, roadmaps, operational requirements, etc.).
• Manage, develop, and grow a team of direct and indirect reports.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in partnership development and management with an emphasis on data used for targeting.
• Adept at both developing strategies and operating day-to-day within cross-functional teams.
• Manage initiatives in complex matrixed environments and make actionable decisions in the absence of perfect information.
• Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced environment that requires context switching several times in a day as you cover multiple dimensions within the targeting business.
• Experience with strategic partner management inclusive of vendor negotiation.
• Exhibit high emotional intelligence and integrity and build deep consultative partnerships with your business stakeholders.
• Influence individuals at the executive level and drive strategic business transformations.
• Track record of helping direct reports grow their capabilities, responsibilities, and careers.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
• Retirement benefits including a 401k plan with company match.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage and basic life insurance.
• Well-being benefits and reimbursement for certain tuition expenses.
• Parental leave, sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked, and vacation time for full-time employees (up to 120 hours through the first year and 160 hours thereafter).
• Around 13 paid holidays per year.
• Eligibility to become The Trade Desk shareholder through stock-based compensation grants.
• Opportunity to purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Pay

Base salary range for this role is $151,100—$277,000 USD. All employees may be eligible for variable compensation-based incentives and commissions, as well as stock-based compensation grants awarded based on company and individual performance.