Staff Product Manager, Custom Solutions
About The Position
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet. The Custom Solutions team designs and delivers tailored solutions for The Trade Desk's most strategic accounts, extending the core platform to deliver incremental value that drives revenue growth and deepens client partnerships. This role is a client-facing position where you will own strategic initiatives end-to-end, working directly with clients to understand their needs, shape solutions, evaluate what's worth building, deliver it with engineering and design, and drive the go-to-market strategy. It offers a rare opportunity for true 0-to-1 product work, direct client exposure, modern AI-first ways of working, and measurable results in client outcomes and revenue.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 5-7 years of product management experience, ideally in advertising technology or an adjacent platform business, with a proven track record of launching complex products
- Proven 0-to-1 experience: you've taken products or major features from concept to launch, navigating ambiguity and validating demand along the way
- Client-facing experience: building consultative relationships and communicating credibly with senior and C-level client stakeholders
- Strong data fluency: comfortable with data analysis and ML/algorithmic concepts, and able to evaluate whether a model is delivering results
- Hands-on AI experience: you’ve built AI-powered solutions or features
- Experience shipping front-end, user-facing experiences with strong UX instincts
- Strong understanding of the programmatic advertising landscape: the players, the economics, and the latest industry trends
- Experience crafting Product Requirements Documentation and driving cross-functional execution in a matrixed environment
- Desire to make a cultural impact and grow as an internal leader
Responsibilities
- Own initiatives end-to-end, taking strategic initiatives from client need through ideation, evaluation, build, client release, and go-to-market.
- Work directly with clients, partnering as a trusted product advisor to understand their needs and expectations and delivering solutions that drive revenue growth and deepen partnerships.
- Evaluate ideas against commercial demand, feasibility, and data availability, making prioritization calls that balance client impact, revenue, and engineering cost.
- Build prototypes to validate concepts with clients and align engineering before committing development resources.
- Apply AI Tools daily across research, requirements, analysis, and delivery to raise the pace and quality bar of PM work.
- Partner with engineering and data science to shape custom algorithms and judge whether a model is delivering for the client.
- Work with design and engineering to define intuitive, high-quality user experiences, focusing on client-facing details.
- Drive the go-to-market strategy, defining positioning and packaging, leading launch plans, enabling commercial teams, and measuring adoption and impact.
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
- Stock-based compensation grants
- Variable compensation-based incentives and commissions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
