Senior Product Operations Manager

The role

You will drive product operating rhythms and amplify capabilities across the R&D organization. You will partner with product, R&D, and commercial teams to translate strategy into priorities and measurable outcomes.

What you will do

• Drive end-to-end facilitation of the product roadmap process
• Facilitate formal roadmap presentations to leadership and commercial teams
• Document and socialize roadmap decisions
• Own operational readiness strategy for key product features
• Facilitate regular cadence goal-setting for each product area and PM
• Collaborate with Data Science and Analytics partners to translate measurement frameworks
• Operate the regional intake process to collect structured pain point requests
• Build scalable mechanisms for collecting and communicating user needs
• Own agenda design and management for product team meeting cadences
• Lead complex change initiatives spanning multiple teams

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a technology company in product management, product operations, or program management with significant interface with technical and business teams
• Demonstrated experience driving product roadmap processes, investment planning, or strategic planning cycles
• Experience with release readiness or launch operations, including building playbooks and driving cross-functional launch preparedness
• Experience facilitating senior level alignment meetings and communicating complex tradeoffs to senior stakeholders
• Familiarity with field feedback or voice-of-customer programs
• Experience partnering with Data Science or Analytics teams to define KPIs, build tracking plans, and embed measurement into delivery workflows
• Comfortable working across product, engineering, revenue, and operations teams
• Familiar with product and design tools such as Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, and whiteboarding tools
• Experience with goal-setting frameworks (OKRs or similar) and progress tracking at the organizational level
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• 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
• Around 13 paid holidays per year
• Stock-based compensation grants
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

About the company

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.