Director of Design Technology

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.Who We Are Looking ForThe Trade Desk is seeking an innovative Director of Design Technology to lead thetechnical design practice within our global UX Design organization. This is a seniorleadership role responsible for shaping the tools, systems, AI capabilities, andengineering workflows that power how our design team creates and scales world-classproduct experiences.The Trade Desk is transforming the way advertising is bought, sold, and consumed as aglobal leader in the programmatic industry. As this industry continues to evolve, you andyour team will play a critical role in bridging the worlds of design and engineering -ensuring our platform remains not only powerful, but intuitive, elegant, and highlyeffective for advertisers and agency partners. Our industry is complicated, but we don'tbelieve our platform should be.As Director of Design Technology, you will play a critical role in shaping our design system - contributing deep technical expertise to its evolution while partnering closely with the team that owns it. You will also lead our prototyping infrastructure and AI tooling strategy, enabling our designers to move faster and ship with greater confidence. You will bring a rare combination of design sensibility, engineering rigor, and a genuine passion for emerging AI technologies - from generative UI and LLM-assisted workflows to intelligent automation across the design lifecycle. You will serve as a strategic partner to Product, Engineering, and UX Leadership - notonly advocating for design craft but building the technical foundation that makesexcellence possible at scale. This role reports directly to the Vice President of UX Designand is a key member of the UX leadership team at The Trade Desk.What You Will Be DoingAs Director of Design Technology at The Trade Desk, you will:Shape & Advance the Design System Play a critical role in shaping the evolution of The Trade Desk's UX design system,bringing deep technical expertise and a strong point of view on scalability,consistency, and adoption* Collaborate closely with the design system's owners to influence tokenarchitecture, component governance, and versioning strategy* Champion design-to-code pipelines that reduce friction between design and front-end development teams* Contribute to and help maintain the shared component library, ensuring itreflects the highest standard of craft across all product surfacesLead AI Capabilities, Innovation & Tooling* Serve as the UX Design team's primary strategist and practitioner for AI-assisteddesign workflows, setting direction across tooling, automation, and generativecapabilities* Evaluate, pilot, and implement AI tools across the design lifecycle - from ideationand wireframing to UI generation, copy assistance, and automated design QA* Build and maintain an AI tooling roadmap that keeps the design team ahead ofthe curve on LLM-powered prototyping, layout generation, and intelligent designsystems* Partner with engineering and data sci