Staff Product Manager, Pharma

The Trade Desk•San Jose, CA

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're looking for a seasoned pharma media and advertising expert to serve as the product owner for The Trade Desk's Pharma vertical. You bring deep, firsthand knowledge of how pharmaceutical brands plan, buy, and measure media and you're ready to translate that expertise into platform capabilities that redefine what the Trade Desk can do for healthcare advertisers. This is not a generalist PM role. You know the pharma media ecosystem from the inside-out: HCP and DTC campaign workflows, health-native DSPs, specialized data partnerships, and the highly complex regulatory frameworks that underpin the industry. You've worked alongside brand teams, agency holding groups, and health data partners, and you understand the nuance of reaching both patients and providers at scale within a tightly regulated environment. If you thrive at the intersection of deeply regulated industries and cutting-edge ad technology, this role was built for you.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in pharma media and advertising, with deep hands-on expertise across HCP and DTC campaign strategy, planning, buying, or product, at a pharmaceutical brand, health-specialist agency, health data company, or ad tech platform serving the pharma vertical.
Comprehensive knowledge of the health media ecosystem and the data partnerships, targeting workflows, and measurement approaches specific to pharmaceutical advertisers.
Proven experience managing complex product integrations with health-native DSPs and specialized health data platforms.
Strong working knowledge of the regulatory and compliance landscape governing pharmaceutical advertising: HIPAA, NAI health data guidelines, FDA promotional requirements, and emerging state health privacy frameworks.
Technical fluency sufficient to partner credibly with engineering teams onAPI design, data pipeline architecture, identity resolution, and access control models.
Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment across product, legal, commercial, and engineering stakeholders in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
Exceptional communication skills! Able to translate pharma industry requirements into engineering specifications, and complex technical constraints into business-friendly narratives for brand and agency clients.

Responsibilities

Own the product vision and roadmap for pharma and health media capabilities across The Trade Desk platform, including HCP targeting audience activation workflows, and integrations with health-native DSPs and data partners.
Serve as the primary product owner for complex integrations with health-native DSPs and specialized health data platforms, ensuring seamless activation, measurement, and reporting for pharmaceutical advertisers.
Partner with pharma brand teams, agency trading desks (including health-specialist agencies), and data partners to identify capability gaps and translate them into scalable product requirements.
Define and drive requirements for HCP audience segmentation, measurement, health identity workflows, and data partnerships across The Trade Desk's ecosystem.
Build and operationalize compliance frameworks specific to pharmaceutical advertising in close partnership with Legal, Privacy, and Policy teams.
Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to design back-end systems, APIs, and data architectures that support health-specific data ingestion, identity resolution, and measurement pipelines while embedding privacy-by-design principles.
Lead cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, data science, legal, and commercial teams to deliver pharma capabilities that are both technically rigorous and commercially differentiated.
Develop frameworks to optimize for the most salient pharma KPIs (such as HCP reach and frequency, patient journey analytics, etc), in partnership with health data providers and internal teams.
Anticipate regulatory shifts and proactively advise on product strategy and compliance readiness as the health privacy landscape evolves.
Represent The Trade Desk externally with pharma clients, agency partners, and health data ecosystems as a credible product and industry voice and regularly intake feedback to inform future product roadmap and strategy.

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