Manager, Retail Data Partnerships (Grocery & E-commerce)

The Trade Desk•Chicago, IL

50d

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.

Requirements

Experience working with retailers, data partners, platforms, or agencies.
Proven operator with a strong bias toward action, structure, and follow‑through—able to run complex initiatives with minimal oversight.
Strong understanding of programmatic advertising, data partnerships, and retail media ecosystems, with an audience‑first mindset.
Experience supporting offsite and/or onsite media activation and retail data adoption across advertiser and agency use cases.
Comfortable developing performance narratives using both outcome‑based metrics (e.g., adoption signals, activation progress) and standard media KPIs.
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, shifting priorities, and cross‑functional dependencies.
Strong communicator with excellent documentation, synthesis, and stakeholder management skills.
Adept at building internal trust and external credibility through consistency, preparation, and clear point of view.
4-6+ years of experience in account management, partnerships, programmatic media, or related roles.
Expertise navigating legal frameworks and negotiations in support of complex partnership agreements.
Experience working with Salesforce, including opportunity and relationship tracking.
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in fast‑paced, evolving environments.
Comfort working with ambiguity and solving problems across multiple levels of abstraction.
BA/BS degree required.

Responsibilities

Drive strategic growth of The Trade Desk’s retail data partnerships by accelerating execution, adoption, and operational rigor across a dedicated portfolio of retailers.
Ensure day‑to‑day partnership excellence, enabling offsite and onsite media activation, and creating leverage for senior leadership to focus on strategic acceleration, executive relationships, and enterprise priorities.
Strengthen operating cadence, improve adoption signals, translate insights into action, and support go‑to‑market efforts across internal commercial teams and external retailer stakeholders.
Run a consistent partner operating rhythm, including weekly/monthly checkpoints, structured agendas, follow‑ups, and clear documentation to drive momentum across initiatives for a portfolio of grocery and e-commerce retailers.
Take primary day‑to‑day ownership of assigned retail partnerships, serving as the lead while escalating strategic or executive moments to Directors as appropriate.
Develop and shape QBR/MBR narratives, performance storylines, and progress tracking to support Director‑led executive conversations.
Serve as the strategic bridge between AI‑driven insights and client action by contextualizing segment‑level findings, responding to client questions, shaping executive‑level interpretation, and ensuring recommended actions are executed.
Partner with Retail Operational Excellence (ROE) team to manage to operational workflows, ensuring consistency and self-sufficiency across our commerce marketplace.
Monitor usage and adoption signals, proactively flagging gaps or risks and routing issues with recommended actions.
Own end‑to‑end negotiations and contracting for assigned partners - shaping commercial frameworks, managing deal execution, and aligning terms to long‑term partnership and revenue goals.
Support internal go‑to‑market and sales enablement efforts by preparing partner updates, contributing to internal announcements, and helping maintain partner‑specific knowledge assets.
Coordinate retailer‑to‑TTD seller connections to support scaled commercialization.
Identify and develop case study proof points by partnering across stakeholders.
Translate retailer feedback into clear inputs for Product, supporting priority initiatives through disciplined operating plans and cross‑functional alignment.
Work closely with ROE, Technical Account Management, Product, Legal, Marketing, and Sales to support successful integrations and ongoing partnership health.

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
The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan