People Engagement Director

The Trade Desk • Ventura, CA

8h

About The Position

The Trade Desk's People Engagement team is responsible for bringing our unique TTD culture to life through programs, communications, and initiatives that ensure everyone feels welcomed, heard, valued, and inspired. Reporting to the Senior Director of People Engagement, the People Engagement Director will help the team design interactive experiences and content that drives engagement, belonging, and development.

In this role, you’ll work across the team and with partner teams to plan and develop experiences and drive key engagement outcomes across the employee lifecycle -- from new hire programs to targeted team-based experiences. You'll also support our team’s operations, helping us use our data to tell a clear story on the state of our internal landscape, and ensuring we’re connecting dots across our complex ecosystem of programs and platforms. You’ll drive continued measurement of our efforts as we continue to build new processes, tools, and learning to improve and scale our strategic engagement efforts.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in the People space, with significant experience in learning, content development, and communications.
• Experience building foundational elements of programs and concepts from conception to execution.
• A values-aligned team player who demonstrates an understanding and passion for employee engagement, belonging and development.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to share a strong point of view that influences cross-functional groups and drives a clear direction.
• Ability to work confidently and thrive in a rapidly changing, fast-paced and results-oriented environment where a high degree of flexibility is required.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a team while meeting deadlines.
• Experience with digital communications technology.

Responsibilities

• Oversee redesign of new hire experience and content: Lead a strategic audit across all new hire touchpoints to identify areas to better connect and align messaging and experiences based on specific learning and engagement outcomes.
• Create a strategy and plan for prioritizing and executing content changes, partnering with internal and external stakeholders as needed.
• Build new and updated content across business and cultural content that meets the needs of new hires at each unique stage of their onboarding.
• Build relationships with functional partners to ensure deep connection with role-specific training to drive speed to productivity.
• Establish measurement and success metrics and recommend program updates over time based on results.
• Lead experience design, content, and enablement for high-priority engagement programs: Drive strategy and content development for critical engagement programs, launches, and change initiatives, bringing the story to life through content and design.
• Partner on cultural transformation work, developing concepts and content for activating and reinforcing key cultural behaviors across the organization.
• Serve as a strategic business advisor on opportunities to bring learning concepts or cultural changes to life based on feedback from our employee engagement survey.
• Lead team operations and system optimizations: Manage a landscape view of our team’s programs, operations, and metrics that connect everything we do and drive understanding and connection with key partners.
• Drive intentional process improvements that help our team reach our key engagement 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed