Senior Marketplace Quality Manager

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Represent The Trade Desk Marketplace Quality team in discussions with various internal teams, clients, partners, and industry organizations on topics related to inventory quality
• Craft strategic external messaging about sensitive industry topics related to inventory quality and transparency
• Evaluate inventory partners to determine compliance with posted inventory policies
• Investigate client and vendor inquiries related to inventory policies
• Conduct regular technical analysis of platform-wide data related to supply quality
• Find technical, operational, policy, or business solutions to complex inventory quality problems
• Handle complex, sensitive discussions with clients, partners, and vendors to reach favorable outcomes

Requirements

• 5+ years of demonstrated expertise in supply quality and/or brand safety through published work, industry contributions, or measurable outcomes at a DSP, SSP, ConnectedTV vendor, ad server, agency, publisher, or ad verification vendor
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives from problem identification through resolution, influencing stakeholders across product, partnerships, legal, and commercial teams without direct authority
• Intensely curious self-starter able to work independently
• Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries
• Strong understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, current trends, and IAB initiatives related to supply quality and transparency
• Knowledge of the anti-fraud and brand safety offerings of major advertising technology vendors
• Outstanding ability to think critically and solve complex problems, with “detective” level perseverance
• Ability to continually make progress on long-term projects while also managing the day-to-day needs of a dynamic, rapidly growing business
• Superior ability to communicate to a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Experience with JIRA, Excel, OpenRTB protocol, and working with APIs to create, update, and retrieve data

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $103,200—$189,200 USD.

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
• Basic life insurance
• Well-being benefits
• Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
• Parental leave
• Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
• 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 purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Eligibility for stock-based compensation grants based on company and individual performance
• Other role-specific compensation such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions