Staff Product Manager, Regulatory Compliance & Data Governance

The Trade Desk•New York, NY

35d

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 seek an experienced, strategic, and technically savvy Staff Product Manager to lead Regulatory Compliance and Data Governance efforts across our platform. You'll drive policies, tools, and product roadmaps that ensure privacy, compliance, and trust, while empowering stakeholders across product, legal, engineering, and data teams. If you thrive in fast-moving environments and are comfortable working through ambiguity, this role may be for you. You must have experience working closely with Legal and Policy teams as well as platform PM and Engineering teams as a horizontal.

Requirements

8+ years of Product Management experience with a focus on compliance, data governance, privacy, enterprise data platforms, or closely related domains.
Demonstrated success in building governance frameworks or compliance tooling in a complex software or ad tech environment working with large data sets.
Strong technical fluency in back-end systems and data architecture including event-driven systems, distributed data pipelines, and data modeling concepts.
Hands-on experience working with engineering teams on API design, data schema evolution, and access control models across services and databases.
Excellent strategic thinking, adept at envisioning long-term, scalable solutions and executing them iteratively while working backwards from customer and business needs.
Proven record of driving cross-functional alignment and delivery in ambiguous, fast-paced settings.
Exceptional communication skills, able to navigate discussions involving legal, technical, and business stakeholders, and build consensus across them.
Resilience and grit, comfortable iterating through evolving regulations and ambiguous product decisions.

Nice To Haves

CIPP, CIPM, or CIPT certification and hands-on experience with AdTech platforms such as DSPs, DMPs, APIs, or programmatic workflows.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the vision and roadmap for regulatory compliance and data governance across globally distributed platforms.
Build tooling and processes to operationalize consent management, data lineage tracking, auditability, and regulatory reporting.
Partner with cross-functional teams including legal, privacy, security, product, engineering, and data science to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, scalable product features and governance frameworks.
Design and oversee governance processes for data collection, handling, storage, access, and deletion, ensuring compliance with global regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and emerging privacy standards.
Collaborate with engineering teams to design back-end systems, APIs, and data architectures that embed compliance into the platform's core data flows from ingestion pipelines to data warehousing, identity resolution, and reporting layers.
Define requirements for compliance automation tooling, data access frameworks, and service-level controls that enforce privacy-by-design principles.
Anticipate emerging regulations and privacy trends, advising on product strategy, risk mitigation, and compliance readiness.
Communicate program goals, trade-offs, and timelines clearly to senior leadership and external stakeholders.

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