Staff Product Manager, Data Flows and Governance

The posting

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.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for a technically sharp, cross-functional Staff Product Manager to own how data flows, gets cataloged, and stays governed across TTD's platform. This is a high-impact role sitting at the intersection of internal data access, metadata infrastructure, and compliance, ensuring the right people can access the right data. You bring structure and clarity to complex, cross-functional data problems and know how to move engineering and business stakeholders toward the same page.

You're the right candidate if you:

• Know what it takes to build a data catalog that engineers actually use and a schema registry that doesn't break downstream pipelines

• Understand how GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and emerging privacy frameworks translate into concrete product requirements, not as an afterthought, but as a foundation

• Have working knowledge of Unity Catalog and other catalog-based use cases to enable more efficient internal workflows

• Think carefully about internal data entitlements, who should have access, under what conditions, and how that holds up against contractual and compliance obligations

What You'll Be Doing

Data Catalog & Governance

• Own the product roadmap for schema evolution and versioning, ensuring backward and forward compatibility without breaking downstream applications or pipelines

• Define requirements for drift detection tooling that monitors real-time schema changes across unstructured and semi-structured data inputs

• Build the semantic mapping layer linking technical schema columns to business terms in a centralized data glossary, including classification of fields carrying privacy or regulatory sensitivity

• Define requirements for column-level lineage tracking from source files through transformations to specific report elements

• Own the strategy for tagging TTD's data assets to enable discoverability, access control, and downstream activation

• Define the data asset taxonomy and classification framework, including tags for PII, sensitive data categories, consent scope, and regulatory jurisdiction, in partnership with engineering, data science, legal, and privacy teams

• Drive platformization of TTD's data assets so they are consistently inventoried, annotated, and accessible across teams and environments, with privacy constraints embedded at the asset level

Internal Data Access & Entitlements

• Own the product vision for how TTD employees and internal workflow developers access data assets in a way that is compliant with contractual obligations, data use agreements, and platform policy

• Define access control requirements across internal tooling and data environments, ensuring entitlements are granular, auditable, and enforceable

• Partner with Legal, Privacy, and Engineering to operationalize data use constraints into tooling rather than manual review processes

• Identify and close gaps where internal data access outpaces governance coverage, working cross-functionally to bring those surfaces into compliance

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead alignment across data engineering, data science, legal, privacy, security, and platform product teams on governance standards, tooling, and roadmap priorities

• Translate complex data architecture and compliance decisions into clear narratives for senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders

• Act as the internal authority on data cataloging, metadata best practices, and privacy operationalization across TTD's hybrid cloud and on-premises environments

What You Bring to the Table

• 6+ years of product management experience focused on data platforms, data governance, regulatory compliance, or closely related domains in a complex software or adtech environment

• Hands-on working knowledge of modern data catalog and metadata management tools and what it takes to build or adopt them at scale

• Deep understanding of schema management: versioning, evolution, drift detection, and semantic mapping between technical schemas and business glossaries

• Strong working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and emerging privacy frameworks, with demonstrated experience translating regulatory requirements into data product and infrastructure requirements

• Technical fluency across data infrastructure: distributed data pipelines, event-driven systems, data modeling, API design, and access control models

• Experience building products on or alongside Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake), Vertica, Snowflake, or equivalent large-scale data platforms, with comfort navigating tradeoffs across cloud and on-premises environments

• Proven ability to drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, data science, legal, privacy, and business stakeholders in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

• Exceptional communication skills: able to translate data infrastructure complexity and regulatory constraints into business narratives, and vice versa

The 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 expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

[LA JOBS ONLY] The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652.

[SF JOBS ONLY] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

In accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location. All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions. Plus, expected benefits for this role include 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, and 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.

The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to learn more.

Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave

At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is

$201,400—$251,800 USD

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

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