Trading Specialist

About this role

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 we do:

The Trading Team works closely with Account Management and Business Development to provide strategic recommendations to retain clients and grow their businesses. The main responsibilities of a Trading Specialist are to provide detailed performance and pacing recommendations and be a platform expert who can not only teach the nuances to clients but can actively navigate and utilise the platform themselves. Trading Specialists should eventually be viewed as a consultant to clients who are aiming to drive the strongest performance possible.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with both Account Management and Business Development colleagues to help drive advertiser performance and account growth.

• Become an expert on our revolutionary new platform experience: Kokai

• Troubleshoot campaign setup and performance issues across multiple channels including, Connected TV, Digital Audio and Digital Out Of Home

• Provide feedback to Product Managers to ideate on platform and product improvements.

• Utilise excel and other advanced analytics tools, such as Tableau or Power BI, to analyse large sets of data and create actionable insights.

• Be comfortable presenting data and insights to client stakeholders.

• Start to build strong relationships with agency and brand direct stakeholders to drive business and meet client needs.

• Work with agency traders and planners to set up campaigns and provide optimisation recommendations to ensure budgets are delivered in full as well as hit client KPIs.