What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Manager, Developer Experience position at The Trade Desk?
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:
Our mission is to ensure the Trade Desk engineering team can deliver products to our customers as quickly and efficiently as possible. Our goal is that our engineers are happy, efficient, and productive. If you are technical, data-drive,n and creative, with a deep understanding of the development process, and a passion for building great developer experiences, we would love to talk to you about the open positions on our PM team.
The Trade Desk Product Team hires courageous, passionate PMs who set big goals and execute them. We help you grow and challenge you with hard, meaningful work. We celebrate our successes and learn from our failures together. We value and develop strong leadership, asking our PMs to take on ambitious and often ambiguous projects that promise to extend our lead in the industry.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
Our team owns the development life cycle at the Trade Desk – from the first discussions about a feature, to coding and debugging, through deployment into our global data centers, A/B Testing and Experimentation, and all the way to post-deployment production monitoring. Our goal is to build tools, frameworks, automation and processes that help our engineers to focus their time on delivering customer value.
You will be responsible for understanding the needs of our customers (the Trade Desk Engineering Team), the tools and processes that they use, the technical governance standards they must meet, and industry trends and best practices; you will be responsible for taking all of that information and working with our developer experience engineering team to use it to define our developer experience strategy and the roadmap to get there; you will be responsible for working with the team to drive execution against that roadmap; you will be driving deeply technical projects and providing leadership in a complex, fast-paced environment.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:
[LA JOBS ONLY] The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.
[SF JOBS ONLY] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
NY, CO, CA, and WA residents only: In accordance with NY, CO, CA, and WA law, the range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as sales-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include 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, and 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.
The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.
Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave
At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is
$150,000—$200,000 USD
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to making our job application process accessible to everyone and to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you have a disability or medical condition and require an accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please contact us at accommodations@thetradedesk.com
You can also contact us using the same email address if you have a disability and need assistance to access our Company website.
When contacting us, please provide your contact information and specify the nature of your accessibility issue.
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:
Our mission is to ensure the Trade Desk engineering team can deliver products to our customers as quickly and efficiently as possible. Our goal is that our engineers are happy, efficient, and productive. If you are technical, data-drive,n and creative, with a deep understanding of the development process, and a passion for building great developer experiences, we would love to talk to you about the open positions on our PM team.
The Trade Desk Product Team hires courageous, passionate PMs who set big goals and execute them. We help you grow and challenge you with hard, meaningful work. We celebrate our successes and learn from our failures together. We value and develop strong leadership, asking our PMs to take on ambitious and often ambiguous projects that promise to extend our lead in the industry.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
Our team owns the development life cycle at the Trade Desk – from the first discussions about a feature, to coding and debugging, through deployment into our global data centers, A/B Testing and Experimentation, and all the way to post-deployment production monitoring. Our goal is to build tools, frameworks, automation and processes that help our engineers to focus their time on delivering customer value.
You will be responsible for understanding the needs of our customers (the Trade Desk Engineering Team), the tools and processes that they use, the technical governance standards they must meet, and industry trends and best practices; you will be responsible for taking all of that information and working with our developer experience engineering team to use it to define our developer experience strategy and the roadmap to get there; you will be responsible for working with the team to drive execution against that roadmap; you will be driving deeply technical projects and providing leadership in a complex, fast-paced environment.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:
- Ideally: a passion for building great developer experiences and a track record of having done so.
- 5 years of experience as a Technical or Platform Product Manager working in a technology-heavy role, including defining the strategy and roadmap for the platforms you built.
- A proven track record of partnering with engineering teams to solve complex, technical problems and delivering large and impactful software projects.
- Excellent communication skills including the confidence to participate in very technical conversations, the ability to drive consensus and commitment, and the ability to crisply communicate delivery timelines, trade-offs and risks to senior management.
- Durability and grit -- sometimes solutions take creative thinking, multiple iterations, and staging while dependencies solidify. You try many different approaches to the right answer.
- Enthusiasm for all things developer, emerging technologies, and a desire to keep on top of industry trends
[LA JOBS ONLY] The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.
[SF JOBS ONLY] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
NY, CO, CA, and WA residents only: In accordance with NY, CO, CA, and WA law, the range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as sales-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include 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, and 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.
The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.
Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave
At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is
$150,000—$200,000 USD
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to making our job application process accessible to everyone and to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you have a disability or medical condition and require an accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please contact us at accommodations@thetradedesk.com
You can also contact us using the same email address if you have a disability and need assistance to access our Company website.
When contacting us, please provide your contact information and specify the nature of your accessibility issue.
Salary : $150,000 - $200,000
