What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Platform Operations Analyst position at The Trade Desk?
The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. 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.
Who We Are Looking For
We're looking for an experienced, proactive, detail-oriented individual to join our Platform Operations team. Your passion for cost efficiency drives you to seek the best value and build a robust technical purchasing foundation.
Key Responsibilities
- Support Platform Technical Procurement: Support the creation and refinement of processes and procedures that ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness for technical components of our platform including Data Centers, On-Prem hardware, Cloud partners, support vendors and SaaS partners.
- Negotiate technical contracts and ensure the best value for the company. Serving as a point of escalation for vendor related issues and incidents, coordinating resolution efforts and implementing preventive measures to mitigate future risks.
- Develop sourcing strategies that address the unique needs of supply chain and manufacturing at hyperscale.
- Collaborate with the Senior Leadership: Align procurement strategies with the company's goals and values. Partner with product management and engineering stakeholders to effectively articulate the importance of financial ownership and accountability, while empowering the engineering organization to operate independently using guidance and guiderails communicated.
- Analyze Market Trends: Keep abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact on the organization to create strategies that will proactively identify optimization opportunities to help our Business meet their goals.
What You Bring To The Table
- 5 Years of experience in Sourcing & Procurement, operations in the software industry.
- Demonstrated success in sourcing, negotiating, and delivering complex contracts, with expert negotiation skills in both financial and business matters.
- Solid technical competency; possess working knowledge of technical topics such as cloud computing, datacenter operations and network architecture.
- Experience using data analysis, industry trends, relevant data, and internal spend data to create strategies and identify optimization opportunities.
- Experience managing projects and initiatives from conception to implementation, with a focus on delivering results within scope, budget, and timeline constraints.
The base salary range for this role is $76,900-$141,000 USD.
At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package.
Salary : $76,900 - $141,000
