Staff Product Manager, Agentic AI
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
- 7+ years of Product Management experience, with a sustained track record of shipping complex, technical products at scale.
- Direct experience building with LLMs, agents, or other AI/ML systems in a production environment — or a demonstrated ability to ramp on these quickly.
- Strong intuition for non-deterministic product design: how to spec, test, and evaluate systems that don’t behave the same way twice.
- Excellent communication and writing skills — you can take a fuzzy strategic problem and turn it into a tight, well-argued spec.
- Ability to solve complex, technical problems with creative, practical, scalable solutions while managing tradeoffs.
- Durability and grit — AI products require many iterations, especially as dependencies and underlying models evolve.
- Bias for action and an entrepreneurial mindset — you use data-based arguments to convince others and generate meaningful progress.
- Experience working with distributed, cross-functional teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in adtech, demand-side platforms, or programmatic advertising is a strong plus but not required.
Responsibilities
- Owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution for your area within the Agentic AI program.
- Writing detailed PRDs that clearly articulate the ‘why’ behind the problem, the proposed solution, and the tradeoffs in scope.
- Partnering with Engineering, Data Science, Design, Legal, and Business teams to align on direction and ship.
- Working closely with applied AI and platform teams on the realities of LLM behavior: evals, latency, accuracy, action resolution, hallucinations, and human-in-the-loop design.
- Gathering requirements from internal teams (Trading, Client Services) and external clients participating in alpha and beta programs, then translating them into prioritized releases.
- Defining and tracking the leading and lagging KPIs that tell us whether the AI is actually saving users time and earning their trust.
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
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