Director, Advisory Partners

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. 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 looking for a Director, People Advisory Partners to support our Product and Technology organizations. You will partner closely with senior leaders to build effective teams, strengthen manager capability, and connect people decisions to business priorities.

This is a hands-on role with direct responsibility for business partnership and one direct report. You will advise leaders on talent, performance, organizational structure, and capacity while coaching and developing a People Advisory Partner. You will bring clarity when priorities compete, challenge assumptions when needed, and help leaders turn decisions into action.

Working with the Senior Director and partners across the People Team, you will ensure leaders and employees receive practical, consistent support that reflects the needs of their teams.

• Own the people agenda for your supported business groups, aligning priorities with business leaders and the Senior Director.
• Establish clear responsibilities across your portfolios and coordinate support where needs overlap.
• Balance strategic priorities with day-to-day employee and leader needs, making thoughtful choices about capacity and escalation.
• Share insights and practices with the broader PAP team to strengthen consistency and collaboration.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior Product and Technology leaders on talent, team effectiveness, and organizational decisions.
• Develop a strong understanding of the business, technical roles, and capabilities needed to deliver its priorities.
• Help leaders assess organizational structure, role clarity, leadership capacity, and succession needs.
• Partner with leaders to align staffing and team capacity with business priorities, including identifying work that should be reprioritized or stopped.
• Support organizational change through thoughtful planning, clear communication, and effective implementation.
• Identify retention risks and help leaders address the underlying issues.

• Coach managers to set clear expectations, provide timely feedback, address performance concerns, and support career development.
• Facilitate talent and promotion calibration, grounding recommendations in business need, demonstrated readiness, and sustained impact.
• Partner with Talent and Total Rewards on development, succession, compensation planning, and promotion decisions.
• Help leaders distinguish between expanded workload and meaningful changes in role scope or accountability.
• Support internal mobility and development opportunities that connect employee growth with business needs.

• Partner with People Solutions, Talent, Total…