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The Trade Desk, Inc. Director of Product Management - Developer Experience and Platform in Seattle, Washington
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: The Developer Experience & Productivity product team's vision is to deliver a development experience that The Trade Desk engineers love. We're a force multiplier for developer productivity. We design and deliver the tools and processes engineers need to maximize their effectiveness and build products quickly, confidently and with high quality. In close collaboration with our world class engineering team and through a deep understanding of the software development life cycle we systematically identify opportunities to improve how engineers build, test, and release high quality features to TTD's customers. You will have the opportunity to manage the product teams that are responsible for how we ship our software to production. This role will incorporate stakeholder needs across the engineering organization to drive positive improvements to our overall developer productivity. Your team will own their charter, end-to-end, and work on long-term roadmaps while enhancing existing features or tools and continuously improving efficiency We are looking for a seasoned technical product leader who can help our team of passionate Product Managers execute on our vision of building a world class development experience that our engineers love. We trust our managers to grow, empower, and look after our greatest asset, our people. At The Trade Desk, we believe that each opportunity to engage with all internal and external stakeholders is unique. The Trade Desk Product Team hires courageous, collaborative PMs who set big goals and execute on 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. You'll also personally drive our Experimentation and A/B testing vision & strategy at the TTD. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING: You will be responsible for leading the Developer Experience & Productivity PM team. You will work closely with stakeholders across our product and engineering teams to understand their requirements, and the technical governance standards we must meet; you will be familiar with industry trends and best practices; you will use your knowledge and experience to take all of that information and use it, in collaboration with your PM team and the engineering teams, to refine our Developer Productivity strategy and the roadmap to get there; you will be responsible for ensuring that the PM team is setup to successfully drive execution against that roadmap; you will provide leadership of deeply technical projects in a complex, fast-paced environment. * You will own the execution of ambiguous, complex, long-term projects with unknown requirements. * You will define and lead execution for deliverables with meaningful impact to operational efficiency of the platform and business. You will be trusted to make major changes to plans when needed to maximize impact. * You will regularly and effectively collaborate with area leaders and stakeholders across the business and client teams. * You will work anticipate stakeholder needs and proac