Principal Product Manager, Inventory & Real Time Bidding

Company: The Trade Desk, Inc.
Location: San Jose
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

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:We are looking for a driven Principal Product Manager to run our real-time bidding (RTB) connections and capabilities. The ideal candidate will be technical, data-driven, creative, business savvy, and have previously created products that had genuine impact.We are looking for someone who is growth-oriented and able to strive for product-market fit with their teams. The kind of person who joins The Trade Desk Product Team is fearless, courageous, passionate and willing to dream big and then execute on it. We are committed to helping you grow, challenging you with hard, meaningful work and celebrating our successes and failures together.WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:The Trade Desk is dedicated to the mission of supporting and growing the Open Internet. In this role you will drive products within our inventory supply team at The Trade Desk.You will own the vision, roadmap, and execution for these products. You will work across a breadth of products within our inventory and bidding stack with API experiences, data science models, data engineering pipelines, and high throughput decisioning capabilities. You understand how data flows through a Demand Side Platform from the time a device has an impression opportunity on a publisher, the supply systems send a bid request, a DSP responds, an advertisement is purchased, and subsequently measured. Your work will directly impact how internet advertising operates globally both within and outside of The Trade Desk.WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

• A track record of product leadership achieving audacious business goals involving advertising technology.
• 8+ years of advertising technology Product Management experience where you demonstrated a sustained track record of driving contributions to impactful projects.
• A deep understanding of RTB advertising protocols and standards, such as OpenRTB and Prebid.js.
• An understanding of the internet and how advertising operates on top of it at the most atomic elements.
• You have hands-on experience at a technical level within one or more key channels like Display, Video, Connected TV. Experience in Audio and Digital Out of Home is a plus.
• A nuanced technical and business understanding of open internet inventory quality measurement techniques and technologies.
• A strong understanding of how ad servers are configured and how various supply-side yield optimization strategies work.
• Understand how decisions on inventory impact the customer experience within a DSP, campaign delivery and performance.
• Analytical mindset and skills to dive into the data using SQL-based tools to find insights.
• A passion for protecting and growing the Open Internet.
• 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.
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