What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Trading Specialist position at The Trade Desk?
The Trading Team works with Account Management and Business Development to provide strategic recommendations to retain clients and grow their business. The main responsibilities of a Trading Specialist are to provide detailed performance and pacing recommendations and be a platform expert who can not only teach the nuances to clients but can actively navigate and utilize the platform themselves. Trading Specialists should eventually be viewed as a consultants to clients who are aiming to drive the strongest performance possible.
What you'll do:
- Collaborate with both Account Managers and Business Development colleagues while mentoring other Traders to help drive advertiser performance and account growth
- Troubleshoot campaign setup and performance issues across multiple channels including Display, Online Video, and Connected TV
- Provide feedback to Product Managers to ideate on platform and product improvements
- Utilize excel and other advanced analytics tools, such as Tableau or Power BI, to analyze large sets of data and create actionable insights
- Be comfortable presenting data and insights to client stakeholders
- Start to build strong relationships with agency and brand direct stakeholders to drive forward business and meet client needs
- Work with agency traders and planners to setup campaigns and provide optimization recommendations to ensure budgets deliver in full as well as hitting client KPIs
- Become a platform expert who can consult and educate clients on new product updates, platform best practices, and industry news
Who you are:
- 6 years of consultative, client-facing work within ad tech, digital marketing, finance or other data-heavy, industries
- Comfortable with client management and day to day communication
- Strong ability to communicate complex topics to agency and brand direct stakeholders
- Effective time management skills with the ability to prioritize client asks as well as long term projects
- Strong quantitative skills using tools such as MS Excel, Vertica and Power BI
- Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and internal stakeholders as well as work independently on daily tasks
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