Staff Product Manager, Data Platform

The role

You will lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the data platform. You will work with engineering and cross-functional leaders to build scalable data capabilities for a global advertising business.

What you will do

• Set the vision and strategy for the data platform.
• Develop a multi-year strategy and actionable roadmap.
• Build relationships with product, engineering, data science, and business leaders.
• Identify data capabilities needed for future business plans.
• Turn needs across teams into shared capabilities.
• Partner with engineering leaders on data ingestion, processing, storage, and serving.
• Write product vision and requirements documents.
• Align stakeholders around platform priorities and investments.
• Establish expectations for data quality, freshness, and accessibility.
• Measure platform impact through delivery speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience.
• Substantial experience building data platforms, infrastructure, or technical products at scale.
• Experience leading initiatives spanning multiple teams from strategy through delivery.
• Exceptional communication and organizational influence.
• Experience setting a platform vision and strategy.
• Deep technical fluency in data systems including ingestion, processing, storage, and query systems.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Ability to explore datasets and investigate quality issues.
• Product mindset for internal platforms.

Nice to have

• A background in software engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, or a similarly technical discipline.
• Experience with digital advertising, programmatic platforms, or high-volume data systems.
• Experience preparing data platforms for AI and agent-driven workflows.
• Experience leading platform migrations or consolidating fragmented data systems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare including 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 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. Its technology helps advertisers reach audiences across the open internet.