The ideal candidate has experience working with retailers, data partners, platforms, or agencies and thrives as an experienced execution leader in a fast ‑ moving, complex environment.
Proven operator with a strong bias toward action, structure, and follow ‑ through-able to run complex initiatives with minimal oversight
Strong understanding of programmatic advertising, data partnerships, and retail media ecosystems, with an audience ‑ first mindset
Experience supporting offsite and/or onsite media activation and retail data adoption across advertiser and agency use cases
Comfortable developing performance narratives using both outcome ‑ based metrics (e.g., adoption signals, activation progress) and standard media KPIs
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, shifting priorities, and cross ‑ functional dependencies
Strong communicator with excellent documentation, synthesis, and stakeholder management skills
Adept at building internal trust and external credibility through consistency, preparation, and clear point of view
Additional qualification requirements:
4-6+ years of experience in account management, partnerships, programmatic media, or related roles
Expertise navigating legal frameworks and negotiations in support of complex partnership a
Benefits
Health insurance
Additional Information
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.
What we do:
Drive strategic growth of The Trade Desk's retail data partnerships by accelerating execution, adoption, and operational rigor across a dedicated portfolio of retailers. This role sits at the center of retailer success - ensuring day ‑ to ‑ day partnership excellence, enabling offsite and onsite media activation, and creating leverage for senior leadership to focus on strategic acceleration, executive relationships, and enterprise priorities.
This position plays a critical role in scaling our retail ecosystem by strengthening operating cadence, improving adoption signals, translating insights into action, and supporting go ‑ to ‑ market efforts across internal commercial teams and external retailer stakeholders.
What you do:
Run a consistent partner operating rhythm, including weekly/monthly checkpoints, structured agendas, follow ‑ ups, and clear documentation to drive momentum across initiatives for a portfolio of grocery and e-commerce retailers
Take primary day ‑ to ‑ day ownership of assigned retail partnerships, serving as the lead while escalating strategic or executive moments to Directors as appropriate
Develop and shape QBR/MBR narratives, performance storylines, and progress tracking to support Director ‑ led executive conversations
Serve as the strategic bridge between AI ‑ driven insights and client action by contextualizing segment ‑ level findings, responding to client questions, shaping executive ‑ level interpretation, and ensuring recommended actions are executed
Partner with Retail Operational Excellence (ROE) team to manage to operational workflows, ensuring consistency and self-sufficiency across our commerce marketplace
Monitor usage and adoption signals, proactively flagging gaps or risks and routing issues with recommended actions
Own end ‑ to ‑ end negotiations and contracting for assigned partners - shaping commercial frameworks, managing deal execution, and aligning terms to long ‑ term partnership and revenue goals.
Support internal go ‑ to ‑ market and sales enablement efforts by preparing partner updates, contributing to internal announcements, and helping maintain partner ‑ specific knowledge assets
Coordinate retailer ‑ to ‑ TTD seller connections to support scaled commercialization
Identify and develop case study proof points by partnering across stakeholders
Translate retailer feedback into clear inputs for Product, supporting priority initiatives through disciplined operating plans and cross ‑ functional alignment
Work closely with ROE, Technical Account Management, Product, Legal, Marketing, and Sales to support successful integrations and ongoing partnership health
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