Staff Product Manager — Data Catalog & Governance

The Trade Desk; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 201,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) with company match

Stock purchase plan

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

The Trade Desk is seeking a technically sharp Staff Product Manager to own data flow, cataloging, and governance across its platform. You will ensure data access aligns with privacy rules, build schemas, and drive compliance across internal teams in a complex ad-tech environment.

You will partner with Legal, Privacy, Engineering, and Data Science to operationalize data-use constraints, ship scalable catalog tooling, and enable enterprise data discovery while maintaining rigorous entitlements and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience focused on data platforms, data governance, regulatory compliance, or closely related domains in a complex software or ad tech environment.
• Hands-on working knowledge of modern data catalog and metadata management tools and what it takes to build or adopt them at scale.
• Deep understanding of GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and emerging privacy frameworks, with demonstrated experience translating regulatory requirements into data product and infrastructure requirements.
• Technical fluency across data infrastructure: distributed data pipelines, event-driven systems, data modeling, API design, and access control models.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for schema evolution and versioning, ensuring backward and forward compatibility without breaking downstream applications or pipelines.
• Define requirements for drift detection tooling that monitors real-time schema changes across unstructured and semi-structured data inputs.
• Build the semantic mapping layer linking technical schema columns to business terms in a centralized data glossary, including classification of fields carrying privacy or regulatory sensitivity.
• Define requirements for column-level lineage tracking from source files through transformations to specific report elements.
• Own the strategy for tagging TTD's data assets to enable discoverability, access control, and downstream activation.
• Define the data asset taxonomy and classification framework, including tags for PII, sensitive data categories, consent scope, and regulatory jurisdiction, in partnership with engineering, data science, legal, and privacy teams.
• Drive platformization of TTD's data assets so they are consistently inventoried, annotated, and accessible across teams and environments, with privacy constraints embedded at the asset level.

Skills

Data governance

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional leadership

Databricks Unity Catalog

Communication

Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Snowflake

Job description

The Trade Desk is seeking a technically sharp Staff Product Manager to own data flow, cataloging, and governance across its platform. You will ensure data access aligns with privacy rules, build schemas, and drive compliance across internal teams in a complex ad-tech environment.

You will partner with Legal, Privacy, Engineering, and Data Science to operationalize data-use constraints, ship scalable catalog tooling, and enable enterprise data discovery while maintaining rigorous entitlements and