Marketplace Quality Manager

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising, with over 3,000 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:Our Marketplace Quality team is dedicated to upholding the highest standards of ad quality and transparency. We play a crucial role in fostering trust by ensuring a secure and transparent marketplace, free from fraud and substandard inventory. By rigorously enforcing these standards, we protect advertisers' interests and maintain the integrity of our advertising ecosystem.What you'll do: * Represent The Trade Desk Marketplace Quality team in discussions with various internal teams, clients, partners and industry organizations on topics related to inventory quality * Work closely with Marketplace Quality Engineering, Product, Partnerships, Legal, Business Intelligence and Client Services teams to drive forward our marketplace quality priorities * Investigate client and vendor inquiries related to inventory policies * Evaluate inventory partners to determine compliance to posted inventory policies * Regular ongoing technical analysis of platform-wide data related to supply quality * Find technical, operational, policy or business solutions to complex inventory quality problems * Crafting strategic external messaging about sensitive industry topics related to inventory quality and transparency * Handle complex, sensitive discussions with clients, partners and vendors to reach favorable outcomesWho you are: * 5+ years of experience in operational and/or technical roles at a DSP, SSP, ConnectedTV vendor, agency, publisher, or ad verification vendor * Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries from scratch * Working knowledge of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, trends and IAB initiatives related to supply quality and transparency * Knowledge of the anti-fraud and brand safety offerings of major advertising technology vendors is a plus * Outstanding ability to think critically and solve complex problems, "detective" level perseverence * Ability to continually make progress on long-term projects while also managing the day-to-day needs of a dynamic, rapidly growing business * Experience communicating to a variety of internal and external stakeholders * Highly organized and detail-oriented * Intensely curious self-starter able to work independently * Experience with JIRA, Excel, OpenRTB protocol and working with APIs to create, update and retrieve dataThe Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressi