Sr. Director, Product Management – AI/Agentic Buyer Products

The Trade Desk • San Jose, CA

5d

About The Position

The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers –– and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency. We are proud of the culture we have built. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.
So, if you are talented, driven, creative, and eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk!
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking a Senior Director, Product Management to lead our AI / Agentic Buyer Products - one of the most strategically important areas of our platform.
AI is reshaping our world across every industry, including advertising. Increasingly, buyers on The Trade Desk are not just human traders interacting with our user interfaces - they are AI-powered agents orchestrated by human strategists. This role defines how those agents integrate with, operate on, and create value within our platform.
This leader will deeply understand the buyer constituents building advertising agents, agencies, brands, retail media networks, and technology partners and define the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for working with them.
The ideal candidate combines deep advertising technology expertise with fluency in AI/agentic systems. You have a clear and defensible point of view on the future of AI in advertising, grounded in data and real-world execution. You operate with urgency, thrive in ambiguity, and have a strong bias toward shipping and iteration.

Requirements

• 12+ years of product leadership experience, ideally in advertising technology, programmatic platforms, or marketplace systems.
• Deep understanding of DSP architecture, bidder systems, data integrations, optimization workflows, APIs, and large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong working knowledge of AI/ML systems, agent architectures, MCP implementations, LLM-enabled workflows, and decision automation systems.
• A clear, defensible vision for how AI will transform advertising workflows grounded in data and industry realities.
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, multi-year product strategies in rapidly evolving environments.
• Experience working directly with large agencies, brands, or technology partners.
• Executive presence and ability to influence senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong bias toward action, experimentation, and iteration.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity while creating clarity for teams.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy for AI-powered and agentic buyer products across The Trade Desk platform.
• Define how trader-orchestrated agents interact with our APIs, optimization systems, data assets, bidding infrastructure, and governance frameworks.
• Develop a multi-year roadmap that enables external parties to build, deploy, and scale advertising agents on our platform.
• Build deep relationships with key agencies, brands, retail media networks, and technology partners developing advertising agents.
• Establish integration standards, guardrails, permissions models, transparency frameworks, and performance measurement systems for agent-based buying.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, UX, and Commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, and differentiated agentic capabilities.
• Drive iterative releases with measurable adoption and performance impact.
• Represent the company externally as a thought leader in AI-enabled advertising.
• Ensure agent autonomy is balanced with governance, safety, transparency, and platform integrity.

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: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed