Senior Talent Ops Program Manager

Thetradedesk; New York (NY); On-site; USD 94,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k

Parental leave

Stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Job summary

The Trade Desk in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead Recruiting Operations programs end-to-end, bridging product, HR systems, and cross-functional teams. You will own intake, prioritization, and enablement initiatives, configure ATS systems, and build dashboards that measure success while driving adoption and modernizing processes across global teams.

This role requires strong collaboration, strategic thinking, and hands-on system configuration experience in an

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Talent Acquisition Operations, Recruiting Operations, People Technology, or technical program management supporting a talent or HR function.
• Hands-on ATS administration and configuration experience; Greenhouse strongly preferred; comparable depth in Workday Recruiting, SmartRecruiters, Lever, iCIMS, or Ashby.
• Experience leading end-to-end, global, cross-functional programs; ability to scope, launch, and measure impact.
• Process design and change management experience; turning ambiguous work into documented, adopted standards.
• Strong reporting/analytics capabilities; experience building dashboards and reasoning about data models; SQL a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic programs end to end, leading a portfolio of high-visibility TA Ops initiatives from scoping through launch, adoption, and measurement.
• Build and maintain project plans, milestones, dependency maps, RAID logs, and operating rhythms to keep stakeholders aligned.
• Coordinate work across Recruiting, People, Legal, Procurement, Finance, Business Engineering, and TA Ops pillars, escalating risk with clear recommendations.
• Design and improve the intake experience, routing, ownership assignment, deflection, and status visibility.
• Lead implementations and migrations; own requirements, data mapping, configuration, testing, cutover, and post-go-live support.
• Configure and administer tools like Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint within governance and change-management guardrails.
• Define success measures, build portfolio/roadmap reporting, and ensure data exists before launch.

Skills

Technical program management

ATS administration

Stakeholder management

BI reporting

SQL

Communication

Tools

Greenhouse

Workday Recruiting

SmartRecruiters

Lever

iCIMS

Ashby

Smartsheet

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

The Trade Desk in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead Recruiting Operations programs end-to-end, bridging product, HR systems, and cross-functional teams. You will own intake, prioritization, and enablement initiatives, configure ATS systems, and build dashboards that measure success while driving adoption and modernizing processes across global teams.

This role requires strong collaboration, strategic thinking, and hands-on system configuration experience in an