2026 Product Management Intern
About The Position
The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. We have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. 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. Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally- connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small- to medium-sized workplaces globally. What we do: We are looking for driven Product Management Interns who learn fast, are humble, value teamwork, are hungry, and who believe they can make our customer's world a much better place. The ideal candidates will be technical, have business savvy, and love problem solving. The kind of person who joins The Trade Desk Product Team is fearless, courageous, passionate, and willing to dream big and then execute on it. We are committed to helping you grow, challenging you with hard, meaningful work, and celebrating our successes and failures together. What you'll do: Depending on your expertise and interests, you will be placed on one of two Product Management teams: Infrastructure Core Bidding In this role, you will drive innovation in our Core Bidding Platform that both supports our business as well as empowers our customers to reach the right audience at the right time for the right price. Our bidding platform supports up to 15M impression opportunities per second that we’re evaluating on our customers' behalf. As a Product Management Intern on this team, you will leverage your technical skills and curiosity as well as business stakeholders to tune and streamline bidding behavior with advanced functionality while keeping auction performance, auction fees along with system and client demands in mind. You will be working with stakeholders across the company in addition to our world class engineering and data science teams to bring our shared vision real time bidding to life. Measurement In this role, you will help the Measurement Product team help clients understand the performance of their advertising efforts. This can include identifying ways to improve our Brand Lift Offering by creating benchmarks and helping advertisers create a test and learn agenda to deeply understand how they move consumers through the marketing funnel. You will be working with stakeholders across the company to bring our shared vision for measuring programmatic advertising to life. Who you are: What are you looking for: Do you want to work on a meaningful and impactful project that makes a difference? Are you eager to innovate? - to work on unsolved problems where you are responsible for the outcome? Are you looking to join a trust-based, globally-connected team, where your contributions will make a meaningful difference? If this sounds like you, we welcome your application and invite you to find out why Fortune named The Trade Desk to the Fortune Future 50 list and the list of 100 Fastest Growing Companies.
Requirements
- Course work in computer science, math, statistics or other relevant fields.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office or Google App productivity software including Word / Docs, Excel / Sheets, PowerPoint / Slides
- Gritty -- sometimes solutions take creative thinking and multiple iterations. You try many different approaches to find the right answer.
- Collaborative -- the best PMs are not necessarily those with the best ideas, but those that ensure the right thing gets done.
- Selfless -- Product Management is about making sure the best work gets done by the team, and making sure they share in the credit.
- Empathic -- As a PM you are the voice of the customer and need to represent them from a position of deep understanding.
- Entrepreneur -- As a PM you need to get out there and convince others of your ideas
- Excellent communication/presentation skills
- The ability to solve complex, technical problems with creative solutions while managing tradeoffs
- Strong interest in what computing can do -- a passion for technology and how to apply that to problems of massive scale
- Enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree program
- Have an expected graduation date between Fall 2026 and Summer 2027
- You can work in one of our physical office locations for the duration of your internship. Roles available in Bellevue, WA or New York, NY
Benefits
- comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
- retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- well-being benefits
- reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
- parental leave
- sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
- vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
- around 13 paid holidays per year
- Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
