The Trade Desk
Staff Product Manager, Budget and Pacing
$201K–$252K
New York · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in product management; at least 2 years in ad tech or 4 years in a directly transferable field.
About the job
Own the strategy and execution of the Budget & Pacing system, helping advertisers set campaign budgets and ensuring the platform spends them effectively across channels and inventory.
What you'll do
- Lead product strategy and execution across the pacing experience, controllers, and budget-allocation algorithms.
- Partner with engineering, applied science, and other teams to develop and safely ship spend-related features; define pacing quality measures and validate changes through experimentation.
- Build the roadmap from customer and trader needs, and drive adoption with go-to-market teams.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in product management, including at least 2 years in ad tech or 4 years in a directly transferable field such as high-frequency trading, fintech, marketplace pricing, or yield management.
- Technical depth to assess design decisions, read algorithm specifications, and reason about control loops and allocation logic.
- Experience owning a production system where correctness and scale matter and decisions affect money; track record of shipping through teams you do not control.
- Prior direct customer contact translating user needs into requirements; understanding of the campaign lifecycle or demonstrated ability to learn it quickly.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time bidding, auction mechanics, budget pacing, or constrained allocation at scale.
Pay
$201,400 — $251,800 USD (base salary)
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