Senior Programmatic Trading Specialist

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. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you. What you’ll do: Spearhead strategy development to ensure clients stay competitive in key areas including first‑party data management and activation, CTV consolidation and retail measurement. Lead data‑driven conversations utilizing TTD platform and custom reporting to provide insights and tell client‑relevant stories to provide a full picture of advertising’s impact on business results. Consult with clients on their campaign goals and strategies to ensure they are maximizing the value TTD’s platform provides. Operate as a power user of TTD’s UI and empower clients to also become power users to most effectively plan, execute, optimize and build on successful advertising campaigns. Collaborate with Account Management and Sales Executives to educate your clients, grow your portfolio of business and ensure buyers are up‑to‑date on TTD’s constantly evolving suite of products and solutions. Build and own key relationships with client planning, trading and analytical teams. Collaborate with engineers, data scientists and product managers to solve complex technical problems including cross‑platform frequency analysis, consumer journey visualizations and API solutions. Troubleshoot advanced technical problems including performance issues, measurement discrepancies and constrained targeting. Who you are: 3+ years of consultative, client‑facing work in ad tech (DSP experience is a plus!), digital marketing, finance or other data‑heavy industries. Eager to constantly learn and adapt in a fast‑paced environment that requires self‑driven education and improvement. Outstanding problem‑solving and analytical skills with the ability to distill complex, data‑heavy information into simple but powerful stories and insights. Strong interest in learning the underlying mechanics of a platform and the ability to act as a conduit between clients and product teams to consistently improve TTD’s platform over time. Comfortable with cross‑functional collaboration with the ability to navigate ambiguous and complex problems and situations. Effective time management skills, especially the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines. Advanced MS Excel skills and the ability to efficiently wrangle extremely large data sets (R, Python, PowerBI and other analytical language and tool experience is a plus!). Salary and Benefits: Base salary range is $78,700—$144,400 USD. Employees may be eligible to become TTD shareholders through stock‑based compensation grants, variable compensation‑based incentives and commissions. Expected benefits include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents; retirement benefits such as a 401(k) 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 in the first year and 160 hours thereafter; and around 13 paid holidays per year. Equal Opportunity Employer: The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. 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