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The Trade Desk

Data Partnerships Director

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Key details

Salary

$151K – $277K

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Director

Years experience

5-10

Location

New York, New York, United States

Full job description

The Trade Desk seeks a Director, Data Partnerships focused on Commerce to lead and scale commerce data ecosystem partnerships. The role involves defining and executing partnership strategies with commerce platforms, retailers, and technology providers to connect media exposure to purchasing behavior. Responsibilities include managing strategic commerce partnerships, negotiating deals, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving commerce data strategy in emerging verticals. Candidates should have 8+ years in retail media, commerce data, or ad tech, strong negotiation skills, commercial acumen, and leadership experience. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, retirement plans, disability coverage, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, paid sick and vacation time, paid holidays, stock purchase plans, and variable incentives. Salary range is $151,100 to $277,000 USD.

What you'll do

  • Own and scale a portfolio of strategic commerce partnerships
  • Build and deepen relationships across retail media networks, commerce data providers, transaction aggregators, and emerging identity and signal providers
  • Help define the commerce data strategy particularly in emerging verticals (e.g., travel)
  • Identify high-impact opportunities that unlock deterministic purchase signals, enabling closed-loop measurement
  • Lead negotiations and design scalable commercial frameworks in collaboration with legal, product, finance, and technical teams
  • Partner with sales and account teams to translate complex commerce capabilities into compelling client narratives that drive adoption and revenue
  • Act as the voice of the partner ecosystem internally, informing roadmap priorities across audience, measurement, identity, and activation capabilities
  • Ensure partner performance and reporting integrity while continuously improving processes that support a rapidly growing ecosystem
  • Maintain a deep understanding of the evolving commerce media landscape, including retail media networks, clean rooms, and data collaboration trends and educate internal stakeholders

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience across retail media, commerce data, ad tech, or adjacent ecosystems
  • Proven track record of building and scaling strategic partnerships that drive measurable revenue impact
  • Deep understanding of how commerce signals (transaction, purchase, SKU-level data) power targeting, measurement, and optimization
  • Skilled negotiator with experience structuring complex, multi-stakeholder deals
  • Strong commercial acumen with experience aligning partnerships to joint go-to-market and revenue outcomes
  • Experienced people leader with a track record of developing high-performing teams
  • Comfortable navigating matrixed, global organizations and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
  • Equally strong in strategy and execution, able to set vision while operating effectively in the details
  • Passionate about translating emerging capabilities into clear, compelling client value propositions

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependentsRetirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company matchShort and long-term disability coverageBasic life insuranceWell-being benefitsReimbursement for certain tuition expensesParental leaveSick time of 1 hour per 30 hours workedVacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours through the first year and 160 hours thereafterAround 13 paid holidays per yearEmployee Stock Purchase Plan with discounted stock purchaseVariable compensation-based incentives and commissions depending on the roleStock-based compensation grants based on company and individual performance

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