Marketplace Quality Director

The Trade Desk•New York, NY

2d•$124,900 - $228,900•Onsite

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

8+ years of demonstrated expertise in supply quality and/or brand safety through published work, industry contributions, or measurable outcomes at a DSP, SSP, ConnectedTV vendor, agency, publisher, or ad verification vendor
Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives from problem identification through resolution, influencing stakeholders across product, partnerships, legal, and commercial teams without direct authority
Experience managing and evaluating third-party vendor partnerships (e.g., IAS, DoubleVerify, HUMAN, DeepSee, Jounce…etc.), including contract reviews, capability assessments, and ongoing performance accountability
Strong proficiency in writing complex SQL queries
Strong understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, current trends and IAB initiatives related to supply quality and transparency
Knowledge of the anti-fraud and brand safety offerings of major advertising technology vendors
Outstanding ability to think critically and solve complex problems, “detective” level perseverance
Ability to continually make progress on long-term projects while also managing the day-to-day needs of a dynamic, rapidly growing business
Superior ability to communicate to a variety of internal and external stakeholders
Highly organized and detail-oriented
Intensely curious self-starter able to work independently
Experience with JIRA, Excel, OpenRTB protocol and working with APIs to create, update and retrieve data

Responsibilities

Represent The Trade Desk Marketplace Quality team in discussions with various internal teams, clients, partners and industry organizations on topics related to inventory quality
Craft strategic external messaging about sensitive industry topics related to inventory quality and transparency
Evaluate inventory partners to determine compliance to posted inventory policies
Investigate client and vendor inquiries related to inventory policies
Conduct regular technical analysis of platform-wide data related to supply quality
Find technical, operational, policy or business solutions to complex inventory quality problems
Handle complex, sensitive discussions with clients, partners and vendors to reach favorable outcomes

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.