Product Manager, Infra Generalist

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.

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!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

We're seeking a driven, staff-level Product Manager who thrives in ambiguity, learns quickly, and brings humility to complex technical landscapes-particularly those spanning infrastructure, platform scalability, and operational excellence, with security as a vital component. This role is central to advancing our efforts to build robust, adaptable systems that support a high-performance, global platform. The ideal candidate is technically fluent and systems-minded, understanding how core infrastructure and product capabilities-including but not limited to security-empower the broader mission of delivering a trusted, innovative Trade Desk experience.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

As a Staff Product Manager on Infrastructure, you will spearhead the development and expansion of our global platform's foundational technologies-including on-prem compute, robust storage solutions, and GPU architectures that drive high-performance workloads. Your leadership will be central to envisioning and delivering scalable infrastructure capable of supporting trillions of queries daily and powering advanced data analytics, machine learning, and media processing.

You'll own the roadmap for modernizing our platform's core systems, working closely with engineering and operations teams to install, optimize, and evolve on-prem environments. From architecting high-availability compute clusters to coordinating multi-tiered storage and integrating the latest GPU advancements, you'll ensure our infrastructure meets the demands of a rapidly growing business and unlocks new capabilities for our users.

Collaboration will be key as you partner across engineering, product & business teams, and external vendors to understand technical requirements, operational challenges, and future opportunities. By translating complex infrastructure needs into actionable strategies, you'll deliver solutions that maximize reliability, performance, and efficiency-enabling our teams to build innovative products at scale.

Success in this role means delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure that is resilient, flexible, and optimized for growth-laying the groundwork for a platform that continues to set the standard in digital advertising technology.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

• 5+ years of Product Management experience, ideally in infrastructure, security, or platform domains.

• Product Strategy & Vision: Ability to define and drive long-term roadmaps for secure, scalable systems that support…