Director, Inventory Business Operations and Strategy

The Trade Desk•New York, NY

3d•$151,100 - $277,000

About The Position

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. About the Role The Director, Inventory Business Operations and Strategy role exists to build and scale the Inventory org, the approaches, and the work the org does. It is not a catch-all for things the SVP of Inventory Partnerships does not have time for. This person becomes a nexus: a high-trust, cross-functional operator who helps other teams do their work more successfully without doing it for them. In practice, that means being a translation layer. When Product is trying to understand what Inventory is actually after, they come here first. When a cross-functional initiative is losing coherence, this person provides the context and clarity that gets it back on track. The leverage this role creates is organization, and it compounds over time. This role carries a dotted line to the Sr Director of Business Operations and operates with high agency across a genuinely interdisciplinary scope: Inventory, Product, Sales, and GTM.

Requirements

A builder and scaler: Launching and iterating on new approaches gives you energy as opposed to just maintaining existing ones
Interdisciplinary, highly cross-functional: Comfortable enough across Inventory, Product, Sales, and GTM to earn credibility in any room and translate between them fluently without needing to be the expert
High agency, high concurrency: You manage multiple workstreams without losing clarity on what matters most
A source of clarity for others: People come to you to understand context, intent, and direction and leave better equipped to do their work; you communicate with precision
Highly trusted: You have a track record of earning trust with senior leaders while maintaining independent judgement; you hold influence carefully

Responsibilities

Iterate on and launch new approaches to how the team operates, how it engages cross-functionally, and how it brings new products and frameworks to life
Become the connective tissue across Inventory, Product, Sales, and GTM, providing clarity and context so other teams can move forward without unnecessary escalation
Reduce SVP dependencies by ensuring clear ownership, shared context, and consistent principles across functions (not by gatekeeping but by enabling)
Serve as a liaison between Inventory and Sales/GTM, ensuring both sides have the context they need to move quickly and Inventory’s priorities shape how commercial teams position
Partner with Business Operations on planning cycles, goal setting, and the rhythm of the business to keep Inventory’s priorities sharp and well represented
Drive self-directed analysis into the strategic questions that matter most, proactively investigating why key business metrics are where they are, what would need to change to move them, and what headwinds or tailwinds the org should be anticipating
Serve as a knowledge aggregator for the org, synthesizing what the team knows across functions into a living base of context that others can draw on, reducing information loss and repeated ramp up
Build Leverage for VP Direct Reports: Systematize what is consuming their time, create repeatable operating structure, and surface what is stuck before it becomes an escalation
Streamline Exec Brief and Status Report Requests: Build a repeatable system so that when leadership needs a brief on a partner or a status update ahead of a meeting, the team can respond quickly without pulling people away from partner-facing work
Fix Gaps in How Supply Path Questions are Handled: Ensure BD & CS have what they need to respond to RFIs, RFPs, etc. with confidence
Operationalize a Client Engagement Framework: Build the intake, routing, and tracking infrastructure that connects Inventory participation to BD & CS opportunities and ties it to measurable revenue outcomes
Revamp the Inventory All Hands: Rethink format, content, and cadence to make it a high-signal org touchpoint that builds shared context and trust
Ad-Hoc Strategic Projects: Take on ad-hoc strategic projects as they arise; this role operates with enough context and range to pick up high-priority work that does not have a clear home elsewhere

Benefits

comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
retirement benefits such as a 401k 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
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