Senior Analytics Lead: Commercial Intelligence & GTM

The Trade Desk; New York (NY); On-site; USD 103,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Analyst, Commercial Intelligence and Analytics to lead high-impact analytical work supporting Sales and Client Services. You will translate business questions into scalable insight pipelines and partner with engineering and systems teams to deploy durable analytics.

You will develop outputs that help prioritize effort, identify risk and opportunities, and improve client outcomes through data-driven, decision-ready insights across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in commercial analytics, business analytics, analytics engineering, data science, or a similarly quantitative role.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets in modern data environments.
• Proficiency in Python for analysis, automation, and workflow development.
• Experience translating business questions into analytical approaches, requirements, and decision-ready outputs.
• Experience building repeatable analytics, signals, or insight workflows rather than ad hoc analysis.
• Experience partnering effectively with technical teams and a broad set of internal stakeholders, including client-facing teams.
• Familiarity with AI- or LLM-assisted tools in analytics workflows, with strong judgment in applying them responsibly and validating outputs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain findings and tradeoffs clearly to a range of stakeholders.
• Strong attention to data quality, metric consistency, and analytical rigor.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial analytics that clarify revenue performance, portfolio health, renewal dynamics, client opportunity, service risk, and other core business questions.
• Design proactive insight pipelines by translating recurring business needs into clear analytical logic, metric definitions, signal criteria, and output requirements.
• Partner with analytics engineering, Business Technology, and Revenue Operations teams to embed analytics into workflows, dashboards, alerts, and decision-support tools.
• Develop outputs that help internal and client-facing teams prioritize effort, identify risk and opportunity, and act with greater precision.
• Build trusted analytical assets using SQL, Python, validated metrics, and clear analytical logic.
• Apply AI- and LLM-assisted tools to improve analytical speed and quality across exploration, documentation, anomaly detection, query development, and workflow design.
• Translate ambiguous commercial problems into clear analytical plans, stakeholder-aligned requirements, and measurable deliverables.
• Help prioritize analytical opportunities that are scalable, actionable, and likely to drive broad commercial impact.
• Help embed analytical outputs into go-to-market systems so they reach users through the tools and workflows where decisions are made.
• Assess whether signals are reaching the right users, informing action, and improving outcomes.
• Communicate findings clearly through concise narratives, practical recommendations, and decision-ready guidance.
• Contribute to the team's analytical maturity through strong documentation, testing, metric governance, and repeatable analytical approaches.

Skills

SQL

Python

Communication

Analytical thinking

AI/LLM tools

Stakeholder collaboration

Data quality

Tools

Salesforce

Planning tools

Product telemetry

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Analyst, Commercial Intelligence and Analytics to lead high-impact analytical work supporting Sales and Client Services. You will translate business questions into scalable insight pipelines and partner with engineering and systems teams to deploy durable analytics.

You will develop outputs that help prioritize effort, identify risk and opportunities, and improve client outcomes through data-driven, decision-ready insights across the organization.