Product Manager II

The Trade Desk, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare

401(k) plan with company match

Variable compensation-based incentives

Job summary

The Trade Desk, Inc. is seeking a seasoned product owner specializing in pharma media to drive capabilities on their platform. You will utilize your comprehensive understanding of the pharma media ecosystem to enhance advertising strategies for healthcare clients.

The role involves significant collaboration with senior leaders, engineering teams, and clients to ensure innovative product offerings that meet regulatory requirements. This position is pivotal in aligning these strategies for both patients and providers within the healthcare advertising landscape.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in pharma media and advertising.
• Comprehensive knowledge of health media ecosystem.
• Proven experience managing complex product integrations.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to product vision and roadmap for pharma media capabilities.
• Conduct user feedback sessions to gather insights.
• Collaborate with engineering and data science teams.

Skills

Pharma media expertise

Communication skills

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Cross-functional alignment

Education

Experience in pharma media and advertising

Tools

API design knowledge

Data pipeline architecture

Job description

Company Overview

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.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a seasoned pharma media and advertising expert to serve as the product owner for The Trade Desk's Pharma vertical. You bring deep, firsthand knowledge of how pharmaceutical brands plan, buy, and measure media and you’re ready to translate that expertise into platform capabilities that redefine what the Trade Desk can do for healthcare advertisers. This is not a generalist PM role. You know the pharma media ecosystem from the inside‑out: HCP and DTC campaign workflows, health‑native DSPs, specialized data partnerships, and the highly complex regulatory frameworks that underpin the industry. You’ve worked alongside brand teams, agency holding groups, and health data partners, and you understand the nuance of reaching both patients and providers at scale within a tightly regulated environment. If you thrive at the intersection of deeply regulated industries and cutting‑edge ad technology, this role was built for you.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior leaders and contribute to the product vision and roadmap for pharma and health media capabilities across The Trade Desk platform, including HCP targeting audience activation workflows, and integrations with health‑native DSPs and data partners.
• Meet with customers, conduct user feedback sessions to seek to understand business problems and translate them into scalable product requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to support back‑end systems, APIs, and data architectures that support health‑specific data ingestion, identity resolution, and measurement pipelines while embedding privacy‑by‑design principles.

Qualifications

• 1‑3 years of experience in pharma media and advertising, with deep hands‑on expertise across HCP and DTC campaign strategy, planning, buying, or product, at a pharmaceutical brand, health‑specialist agency, health data company, or ad tech platform serving the pharma vertical.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the health media ecosystem and the data partnerships, targeting workflows, and measurement approaches specific to pharmaceutical advertisers.
• Proven experience managing complex product integrations with health‑native DSPs and specialized health data platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of the regulatory and compliance landscape governing pharmaceutical advertising: HIPAA, NAI health data guidelines, FDA promotional requirements, and emerging state health privacy frameworks.
• Technical fluency sufficient to partner credibly with engineering teams on API design, data pipeline architecture, identity resolution, and access control models.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross‑functional alignment across product, legal, commercial, and engineering stakeholders in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments.
• Exceptional communication skills! Able to translate pharma industry requirements into engineering specifications, and complex technical constraints into business‑friendly narratives for brand and agency clients.

Expected Compensation and Benefits

In accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non‑discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location. All employees may be eligible to become Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock‑based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation such as 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 thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter, and around 13 paid holidays per year. Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.

EEO & Accessibility

The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

[LA JOBS ONLY] The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.

[SF JOBS ONLY] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

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