Senior Staff Product Manager

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

The GTM Product Team develops intelligent systems and platform capabilities that power The Trade Desk’s global operations at scale. We collaborate with Sales, Business Development, Client Services, Revenue Operations, Legal, Finance, and HR to resolve complex operational challenges using data-driven design and scalable architecture. As these workflows evolve, we are rethinking enterprise software to be more intelligent, context-aware, and proactive. We believe the next generation of products will work alongside people, helping teams reason across complex processes, surface insights in real time, and make faster, more confident decisions.

About the Role

Product Managers at The Trade Desk are strategic builders, product thinkers, and operators who thrive in ambiguity and move quickly from concept to execution. This is a senior role for a PM ready to own a GTM domain end to end and set the standard others follow. You'll own the strategy and roadmap for products that power our global go-to-market organization, frame net-new problems before anyone asks, and be the person GTM, Rev Ops, and business leaders rely on for the roadmap and the hard, ambiguous calls.

Responsibilities

• Own a GTM domain end to end. Set a stable, year-long north-star metric and a 9–12 month roadmap for your products, and routinely frame and solve net-new GTM problems with no guidance.
• Anticipate how changes to the TTD platform, spend, pacing, optimization ripple into GTM workflows and outcomes like forecasting and pacing-driven recommendations, and design for it.
• Make AI the default, and lift the team. You get real value from AI and help teammates do the same through approaches that get adopted because they work, not because they're AI. You know when AI isn't the answer, and you drive new ways of working with evidence-backed, sometimes contrarian thinking.
• Prototype instead of writing specs. A working mockup (Figma, Magic Patterns, an AI-built prototype) beats a long doc for compressing alignment and pressure-testing an idea. You'd rather show than tell.
• Ground everything in real users. Model direct user contact with Sales, Revenue Operations, Finance, and Client Services, so your decisions come from real problems, and define what good looks like for the team along the way.
• Own outcomes, and unblock others. Set and track success metrics for the domain and drive decisions from them. Resolve misalignment up to exec-level partners, communicate with no ambiguity, and remove blockers for the people around you, not just yourself.

Requirements

• You've owned a domain or multiple medium to large initiatives concurrently end to end under real ambiguity, set a standard your team adopted, and built an approach others actually use.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $151,100—$277,000 USD.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
• Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and 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 become The Trade Desk shareholders through stock-based compensation grants.
• Opportunity to purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Variable compensation-based incentives and commissions (for eligible roles).

Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement, or parental leave.