The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 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.
About the role:
As Director, Data Partnerships, focused on Commerce, you will play a critical leadership role in building and scaling the commerce data ecosystem that fuels The Trade Desk’s next phase of growth.
Sitting at the intersection of retail media, commerce signals, and programmatic activation, you will define and execute partnership strategies with leading commerce platforms, retailers, and next-generation technology providers. Your work will directly enable advertisers to connect media exposure to real-world purchasing behavior, thus closing the loop between marketing and sales.
You will be a key voice on the Data Partnerships team, shaping how we evolve our data marketplace to a commerce-enabled media platform.
What you’ll do:
Own and scale a portfolio of strategic commerce partnerships
Build and deepen relationships across retail media networks, commerce data providers, transaction aggregators, and emerging identity and signal providers
Help define the commerce data strategy particularly in emerging verticals (e.g., travel)
Identify high-impact opportunities that unlock deterministic purchase signals, enabling closed-loop measurement
Lead negotiations and design scalable commercial frameworks in collaboration with legal, product, finance, and technical teams
Partner with sales and account teams to translate complex commerce capabilities into compelling client narratives that drive adoption and revenue
Act as the voice of the partner ecosystem internally, informing roadmap priorities across audience, measurement, identity, and activation capabilities
Ensure partner performance and reporting integrity while continuously improving processes that support a rapidly growing ecosystem.
Maintain a deep understanding of the evolving commerce media landscape, including retail media networks, clean rooms, and data collaboration trends and educate internal stakeholders.
Who you are:
Commerce media leader with 8+ years of experience across retail media, commerce data, ad tech, or adjacent ecosystems
Proven track record of building and scaling strategic partnerships that drive measurable revenue impact
Deep understanding of how commerce signals (transaction, purchase, SKU-level data) power targeting, measurement, and optimization
Skilled negotiator with experience structuring complex, multi-stakeholder deals
Equally strong in strategy and execution, able to set vision while operating effectively in the details
Comfortable navigating matrixed, global organizations and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
Strong commercial acumen with experience aligning partnerships to joint go-to-market and revenue outcomes
Passionate about translating emerging capabilities into clear, compelling client value propositions
Experienced people leader with a track record of developing high-performing teams
Why this role matters:
Commerce media is fundamentally reshaping the advertising landscape. The ability to connect ad exposure to transaction data is becoming the defining capability for modern marketers.
In this role, you will help build the partnerships and infrastructure that make that possible, positioning The Trade Desk at the center of the commerce-driven future of advertising.
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In accordance with various US state laws, 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, 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 variable compensation-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.
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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
$151,100—$277,000 USD
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