Senior Trading Specialist
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. The Trading Team works with Account Management and Business Development to provide strategic recommendations to retain clients and grow their business. The main responsibilities of a Trading Specialist are to provide detailed performance and pacing recommendations and be a platform expert who can not only teach the nuances to clients but can actively navigate and utilize the platform themselves. Trading Specialists should eventually be viewed as a consultants to clients who are aiming to drive the strongest performance possible.
Requirements
- 4+ years of consultative, client-facing work, ideally within ad tech, digital marketing, finance or other data-heavy, industries (hands-on keyboard DSP experience a plus)
- Strong technical experience, ability to perform at a high strategic level and ability to think long term
- Comfortable with client management, day to day communication, and presenting in front of clients
- Strong ability to communicate complex topics to agency and brand direct stakeholders
- Effective time management skills with the ability to prioritize client asks as well as long term projects
- Fluency in understanding the DSP/Ad Tech landscape is required
- Strong quantitative skills using tools such as MS Excel, Vertica and Power BI
- Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and internal stakeholders as well as work independently on daily tasks
Nice To Haves
- Understanding the CPG landscape is a plus
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with both Account Managers and Business Development colleagues while mentoring other Traders to help drive advertiser performance and account growth
- Troubleshoot campaign setup and performance issues across multiple channels including Display, Online Video, and Connected TV
- Provide feedback to Product Managers to ideate on platform and product improvements
- Utilize excel and other advanced analytics tools, such as Tableau or Power BI, to analyze large sets of data and create actionable insights
- Be comfortable presenting data and insights to client stakeholders
- Start to build strong relationships with agency and brand direct stakeholders to drive forward business and meet client needs
- Work with agency traders and planners to setup campaigns and provide optimization recommendations to ensure budgets deliver in full as well as hitting client KPIs
- Become a platform expert who can consult and educate clients on new product updates, platform best practices, and industry news
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
