Product Manager, Developer 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!

THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR EVERYONE:
This is a highly technical Product Management role where you ll spend your days embedded with senior engineers, reviewing CI/CD pipelines, analyzing build times, mapping out complex dependency chains, and optimizing developer workflows. If you can t confidently discuss git merge strategies, explain the trade-offs between monorepos and multi-repos, or understand what happens between "git push" and code running in production, this role will be extremely challenging.

Our mission is to build the internal developer platform that powers The Trade Desk s engineering organization. We own the tools, workflows, and infrastructure that our developers interact with hundreds of times per day—from the moment they check out a repo to when they ship code to production and perform ongoing experiments.

We re looking for a technical Product Manager who has shipped products TO developers, not just products WITH developers. You should get excited about reducing build times by 30%, streamlining the code review process, or reimagining our local development environment. Your customers are senior engineers who will quickly lose patience if you don t understand their world.

The Trade Desk Product Team hires courageous, passionate PMs who set big goals and execute 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.

Our teams own the software development life cycle at The Trade Desk – from the first day of a new developer, to the first discussions about a feature, to coding and debugging, through deployment into our global data centers, and all the way to A/B Testing and Experimentation. Our goal is to build tools, frameworks, automation, and processes that help our developers focus their time on delivering customer value.

You will roll up your sleeves and dive deep into the problems our developers face every day. This means shadowing engineers through their entire workflow, analyzing bottlenecks in our build pipeline, investigating why code reviews are taking too long, and understanding the friction points in our deployment process. From this hands-on research, you ll synthesize insights into a north star vision and strategic roadmap for our developer experience.

On a typical day, you might:

• Shadow a developer through their entire workflow to identify friction points
• Analyze metrics showing a 20% increase in build failures and work with platform engineers to diagnose root causes
• Facilitate a technical deep-dive with senior engineers on container startup times
• Write a technical specification for improving our local development environment
• Review user research showing developers are context-switching 47 times per day and design solutions to reduce interruptions
• Present a monthly roadmap to engineering leadership, articulating technical trade-offs and timelines

Your responsibilities include:

• Understanding the needs of our Trade Desk Engineering Team through direct engagement, user research, and data analysis
• Defining our developer experience (DX) strategy and building the roadmap to get there
• Owning key areas such as: local developer environment setup, source control workflows (checkout, build, merge), code review processes, cross-team code stewardship, and deployment…