About the position
Our team’s mission is to deliver our platform’s Infrastructure that’s secure, reliable, scalable, and efficient. Our infrastructure runs on multiple clouds as well as in our own datacenters and powers run a globally distributed system handling over 15 million requests per second backed with data and AI. Our team is responsible for defining plans that are years into the future, building new modern system capabilities powered by our core platform backbone, as well as tools our team needs to innovate fast. We work behind the scenes to that meet our company needs before they know they need them. We are looking for a seasoned technical leader who can help our team of passionate infrastructure PMs refine and adapt the vision for that infrastructure that helps power our company accelerated growth and scale. The Trade Desk Product Team hires courageous, collaborative PMs who set big goals and execute 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Infrastructure product management team.
- Work closely with stakeholders across business, product, engineering, and purchasing teams to understand their requirements.
- Ensure compliance with technical governance standards.
- Familiarize with industry trends and best practices.
- Lead product management team in partnership with infrastructure engineering teams to build roadmaps.
- Drive execution against the product roadmap.
- Provide leadership on deeply technical projects in a complex, fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- A track record for leading a technical product management team while building efficient infrastructure tooling and processes.
- 10+ years of experience as a Technical or Platform Product Manager in a technology-heavy role.
- Proven track record of partnering with engineering teams to solve complex technical problems.
- Excellent communication skills for technical conversations and driving consensus.
- Durability and grit in problem-solving.
- Deep understanding of modern infrastructure environments including custom datacenters and cloud environments like Azure and AWS.
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.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
