Director of Product Management - Developer Experience and Platform

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!

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  WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

  The Developer Experience & Productivity product team's vision is to deliver a development experience that The Trade Desk engineers love. We're a force multiplier for developer productivity. We design and deliver the tools and processes engineers need to maximize their effectiveness and build products quickly, confidently and with high quality. In close collaboration with our world class engineering team and through a deep understanding of the software development life cycle we systematically identify opportunities to improve how engineers build, test, and release high quality features to TTD's customers. You will have the opportunity to manage the product teams that are responsible for how we ship our software to production. This role will incorporate stakeholder needs across the engineering organization to drive positive improvements to our overall developer productivity. Your team will own their charter, end-to-end, and work on long-term roadmaps while enhancing existing features or tools and continuously improving efficiency

  We are looking for a seasoned technical product leader who can help our team of passionate Product Managers execute on our vision of building a world class development experience that our engineers love. We trust our managers to grow, empower, and look after our greatest asset, our people. At The Trade Desk, we believe that each opportunity to engage with all internal and external stakeholders is unique. The Trade Desk Product Team hires courageous, collaborative PMs who set big goals and execute on 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. You'll also personally drive our Experimentation and A/B testing vision & strategy at the TTD.

  WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

  You will be responsible for leading the Developer Experience & Productivity PM team. You will work closely with stakeholders across our product and engineering teams to understand their requirements, and the technical governance standards we must meet; you will be familiar with industry trends and best practices; you will use your knowledge and experience to take all of that information and use it, in collaboration with your PM team and the engineering teams, to refine our Developer Productivity strategy and the roadmap to get there; you will be responsible for ensuring that the PM team is setup to successfully drive execution against that roadmap; you will provide leadership of deeply technical projects in a complex, fast-paced environment.

  * You will own the execution of ambiguous, complex, long-term projects with unknown requirements.

  * You will define and lead execution for deliverables with meaningful impact to operational efficiency of the platform and business. You will be trusted to make major changes to plans when needed to maximize impact.

  * You will regularly and effectively collaborate with area leaders and stakeholders across the business and client teams.

  * You will work anticipate stakeholder needs and proactively discover, advocate for, and resolve high priority issues and challenges. You will collaborate with your stakeholder to define success metrics and validation.

  * You will build processes and tools for assessing employee morale and leverage the insights for environment-improving initiatives across multiple teams.

  * You will leverage data to analyze hiring effectiveness and advocate for meaningful improvements. You will execute on a hiring strategy that aligns for your area.

  * You will identify, motivate, coach, and develop other team leaders and managers. You will build leaders that are responsible for building and developing their team members' and overall team capabilities.

  * You will develop and refine processes to analyze your team's specific performance metrics and act upon insights from this analysis to anticipate impediments to long-term team efficiency, and successfully guides the team toward sustained, measurable increases in efficiency over time.

  WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

  * A track record for leading a developer productivity team while building efficient tooling and processes.

  * 12+ 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.

  * A deep understanding of modern infrastructure environments - both on prem and in cloud, DevOps, and an ability and desire to keep on top of industry trends.

  
  

The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

[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.