Staff Product Manager, Data Platform

thetradedesk; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Trade Desk is seeking a Staff Product Manager to shape the data platform that powers its global advertising business. You will lead vision, strategy, and priorities, partnering with engineering and data science teams to deliver scalable data capabilities that enable AI-native products and faster decision-making.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to understand roadmaps, identify data needs, and translate them into actionable plans and measurable outcomes for the platform team.

Responsibilities

• As a Staff Product Manager, you will lead product vision, strategy, and priorities for the data platform, working closely with engineering and the teams that depend on it. This is a senior individual contributor role with influence across the organization.
• Set the vision and strategy for the data platform. Develop a clear point of view on how the platform needs to evolve and the opportunities it should enable. Translate that vision into a multi-year strategy and an actionable roadmap, with explicit priorities, tradeoffs, and measures of success.
• Understand where the business is heading. Build relationships with product, engineering, data science, and business leaders, including directors and VPs. Understand what they are planning this year, next year, and further ahead. Identify the data capabilities those plans depend on, surface gaps early, and bring a coherent view of future needs back to the platform team.
• Turn needs across teams into shared capabilities. Spend time with the engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product teams who produce and consume data. Understand their workflows and constraints, distinguish common problems from specialized need, and prioritize investments that create value across the platform.
• Build the plan with engineering. Partner closely with engineering leaders on how data is ingested, processed, stored, discovered, and served. Write clear product vision and requirements documents, evaluate options together, and make informed tradeoffs across performa

Job description

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising, with over 3,000 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

The Trade Desk has also built something beyond our technology: a culture grounded in trust, ownership, and the belief that ambitious, principled people can change an industry. We value intellectual honesty, diverse perspectives, and teams that push each other to do better work. We celebrate big bets, learn from failures, and care deeply about getting things right - for our customers and for each other. If that resonates with you, we'd love to talk.

Who We're Looking For

Data is foundational to The Trade Desk: how our products work, how our customers understand their investments, and how we build what comes next. We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to shape the data platform that makes that possible. This is an opportunity to influence the foundations behind a global advertising business, building capabilities that help teams across the company move faster, make better decisions, and deliver more value to customers.

The scale makes this work especially compelling. Across channels and markets, our products depend on large volumes of data being collected, processed, and made available accurately, reliably, and efficiently. The decisions we make about those foundations shape what other teams can build, how quickly they can build it, and how well it performs. You'll help ensure our data platform stays ahead of the business's needs as our products, customers, and ambitions evolve. AI and agents are also expanding who uses data and what they can do with it. As software increasingly discovers, interprets, and acts on data, our platform must serve new kinds of users and make new workflows possible. You'll help shape that evolution: building trusted, discoverable, and securely accessible data capabilities that enable teams to create AI-native products and agent-driven experiences.

We're looking for someone who combines technical depth with the ability to make a complex vision clear and compelling. You're curious about where the business is going, comfortable working with senior leaders across functions, and skilled at finding the shared needs behind different roadmaps. You love building alongside engineers, care about the people who depend on your platform, and can turn a long-term vision into practical investments that deliver value along the way.

What You'll Do

As a Staff Product Manager, you will lead product vision, strategy, and priorities for the data platform, working closely with engineering and the teams that depend on it. This is a senior individual contributor role with influence across the organization. Your work will connect business direction to platform capabilities, helping teams meet today's commitments while building the foundations for the next several years.

Set the vision and strategy for the data platform. Develop a clear point of view on how the platform needs to evolve and the opportunities it should enable. Translate that vision into a multi-year strategy and an actionable roadmap, with explicit priorities, tradeoffs, and measures of success.

Understand where the business is heading. Build relationships with product, engineering, data science, and business leaders, including directors and VPs. Understand what they are planning this year, next year, and further ahead. Identify the data capabilities those plans depend on, surface gaps early, and bring a coherent view of future needs back to the platform team.

Turn needs across teams into shared capabilities. Spend time with the engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product teams who produce and consume data. Understand their workflows and constraints, distinguish common problems from specialized need, and prioritize investments that create value across the platform.

Build the plan with engineering. Partner closely with engineering leaders on how data is ingested, processed, stored, discovered, and served. Write clear product vision and requirements documents, evaluate options together, and make informed tradeoffs across performa