Staff Product Manager, Budget and Pacing

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
Budget & Pacing are the most critical aspects within an advertising campaign. Empowering the advertisers/agencies with the right set of tools to create & manage their flight budgets and ensuring that our pacing system is decisioning on every single one of the 20M QPS to maximize value & spend budgets in full is not easy feat. We are looking for an experienced product manager that understands the full lifecycle of a campaign, from an IO all the way to reporting. Understanding the full ecosystem including live events, deals, commitments, across different types of channels is required.
You will work with our CS & BD teams to understand customer needs, execute on them with the engineering, UX and applied science teams then collaborate with GTM & PMM teams to bring them to life and drive adoption. You will be responsible for ensuring that clients can setup their campaign flights according to their needs and that our system executes on it seamlessly.
Budget & Pacing are the most critical aspects within an advertising campaign. Empowering the advertisers/agencies with the right set of tools to create & manage their flight budgets and ensuring that our pacing system is decisioning on every single one of the 20M QPS to maximize value & spend budgets in full is not an easy feat. We are looking for an experienced product manager that understands the full lifecycle of a campaign, from an IO all the way to reporting. Understanding the full ecosystem including live events, deals, commitments, across different types of channels is important.
If you have depth in systems that decide in real time where money goes outside of Ad Tech, such as trading, payments, or marketplace pricing, we want to hear from you.
You will work with our CS & BD teams to understand customer needs, execute on them with the engineering, UX and applied science teams then collaborate with GTM & PMM teams to bring them to life and drive adoption. You will be responsible for ensuring that clients can setup their campaign flights according to their needs and that our system executes on it seamlessly.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
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
Define how we measure pacing quality, and prove changes through experimentation
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE