Sr Trading Specialist

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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Handles the day-to-day trading efforts for a portfolio of accounts, actively supporting more Senior Traders 

Partners with other business team members to add in-depth product knowledge and develop trading-specific strategies to achieve client goals 

Owns numerous accounts independently and recognises opportunities to grow accounts; playing a key role in identifying and prioritising client needs 

Helps to train new and existing clients in all platform operational areas, and to onboard new clients 

Develop areas of expertise in product offerings and acts as an internal resource for the internal business team 

Actively pursues ways to grow client business through helping agencies provide new value (savings analyses, campaign planning, performance and measurement, marketing funnel approach, etc.) 

Assists Senior Traders in onboarding and developing newer traders, and in particular works as an authority on trading-related topics

Seeks to provide additional value outside of the role through cultural contributions, collaboration with peers, case study development, new product beta testing opportunities and relaying feedback to our product team.

Communicates complex concepts and ideas in a clear and concise manner, across audiences with varying levels of expertise.

WHO YOU ARE:

Extensive experience within programmatic advertising

Client-facing experience, building and developing relationships as well as confidently presenting in front of clients

You're a very strong communicator that collaborates effectively across an internal client services team and leads by example for more junior members of the team

Show consistent ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts in a simple, straightforward manner

Effective time management skills – ability to prioritise and meet deadlines

Excellent troubleshooting and analytical abilities. Love to problem-solve, along with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a dynamic environment 

Strong quantitative skills coupled with real passion for mining insights from very large datasets 

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