Senior Product Operations Manager

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 Are Looking We are looking for a driven, energetic Senior Product Operations Manager who will be part of a global Product Operations team within our product organization. You’ll partner closely with product, R&D, and the commercial business to ensure we are continuously translating product strategy into clear priorities, aligned execution, and measurable outcomes.   You are a force multiplier for the R&D organization — driving clarity, discipline, transparency, and alignment across product and company leadership. You shift fluently between strategic, operational, and communication flows. You will tune and evolve the systems and rhythms that connect strategy formulation to goals, delivery, and client impact. You drive adoption of standards that enable scalable, data-driven operations, partnering with cross-functional teams to resolve friction and deliver on shared objectives.   You are essential to the successful delivery of great products. You have deep empathy for internal and external customer needs, build scalable feedback mechanisms that weave quantitative and qualitative data into cohesive insights, and translate those insights into prioritized product opportunities that influence roadmaps to drive progress against measurable outcomes.   What You Will Be Doing   You will be focused on contributing to product operating rhythms and amplifying capabilities across the R&D organization. You will help the product organization evolve processes and operate at scale, ensuring that what we develop connects to both customer and business outcomes. You will support Product Ops Leadership in developing and delivering against strategies that tie the team’s work to The Trade Desk’s ability to bring the right products to market.   Responsibilities   Roadmap Ownership & Governance   Drive end-to-end facilitation of the product roadmap process, including strategy formulation, investment area definition, opportunity sizing, capacity planning, and scenario/tradeoff analysis   Facilitate formal roadmap presentations to leadership, commercial, and revenue teams to build alignment on strategic priorities, resource allocation, sequencing, and explicit tradeoffs   Document and socialize roadmap decisions; maintain version control of all roadmap artifacts   Integrate lifecycle expertise across multiple initiatives, anticipating systemic risks, cross-team dependencies, and cross-platform impacts; shape planning rituals and readiness standards across the organization   Release Readiness & Launch Preparedness   Own operational readiness strategy for key product features, leveraging release readiness frameworks to drive alignment across multiple product domains   Anticipate systemic risks, define scalable playbooks, and influence senior stakeholders to ensure enterprise-wide launch preparedness and accountability for upstream and downstream adoption   Partner with Product and Ops leadership to evolve lifecycle frameworks, improving predictability, quality, and execution consistency   Goal Setting, Measurement & Analytics   Facilitate regular cadence goal-setting for each product area and PM, ensuring goals ladder to roadmap investment areas and company goals   Collaborate with Data Science and Analytics partners to translate measurement frameworks into actionable tracking plans; embed defined KPIs in execution workflows and ensure insights drive meaningful adjustments in process and delivery outcomes   Design frameworks and quality controls used across Product Ops that enable teams to extract signal from noise and link insights to business outcomes   Monitor progress via structured weekly updates and proactively escalate risks, tradeoffs, slippage, or misalignment to product leadership   Field Feedback & User Advocacy   Operate the regional intake process to collect structured pain point requests from field teams and route validate, strategically aligned opportunities to PMs for investigation   Build scalable mechanisms for collecting, synthesizing, and communicating user needs; integrate quantitative and qualitative data into cohesive insights that directly inform roadmap prioritization and feature decisions   Standardize how requests are documented, categorized, and themed; close the loop with field stakeholders on prioritization and progress   Champion adoption of user-centered practices within and across teams; drive measurable improvements in customer and product outcomes   Product Ceremonies & Operating Rhythm   Own agenda design and management for product team meeting cadences: weekly leadership meetings, goal-tracking reviews, and cross-functional alignment sessions   Establish communication cadences and documentation standards that sustain alignment over time; ensure meetings are purposeful, high-leverage, and tied to current priorities   Facilitate alignment across multiple leadership groups and initiatives; anticipate f