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Staff Product Manager, Budget and Pacing

The Trade Desk · New York · On-site

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About The Trade Desk

From brand building to performance marketing, our omnichannel platform was built with one goal: helping you reach yours.

About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Own product strategy and execution for TTD’s Budget & Pacing system, from the UX experience all the way to our pacing controllers
  • Collaborate with numerous product teams across our platform to ensure that they can ship their features safely without disrupting spend on the platform
  • Go deep on the core pacing engine: the controllers that decide how budget is spent over time, and the algorithms that allocate it across ad groups and channels
  • Partner with applied science on pacing and bidding algorithms, and be able to dig deep into technically complex areas
  • Own the intake surface for every team whose features touch spend, including live events, inventory, supply path optimization, deals and others
  • Build the roadmap from direct contact with traders and agencies
More about this role

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with over 3,000 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.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Every campaign on our platform has a budget and a flight, and our pacing system decides in real time how to spend it against 20M queries per second. Our job is to bid the right...

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