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The Trade Desk

Senior Product Operations Manager

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Key details

Salary

$103K – $189K

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

San Francisco, United States

Full job description

The Trade Desk seeks a Senior Product Operations Manager to join the global Product Operations team. The role partners with product, R&D, and commercial teams to translate product strategy into priorities, execution, and measurable outcomes. Responsibilities include managing the product roadmap process, facilitating leadership alignment, ensuring release readiness, setting goals and KPIs with data science partners, collecting and integrating user feedback, managing product team meeting cadences, and leading change initiatives. The candidate must have 5+ years in product management, product operations, or program management in a tech company, experience with roadmap and launch operations, stakeholder communication, and familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Salesforce. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, retirement plans, disability coverage, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, paid time off, holidays, stock purchase plans, and variable incentives. Base salary range is $103,200 to $189,200 USD.

What you'll do

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 friction points, reframe conflicts constructively, and guide teams toward evidence-based decisions
  • Lead complex change initiatives spanning multiple teams; design transition plans, stakeholder communications, and feedback loops to sustain adoption; anticipate resistance and implement strategies that maintain morale and clarity
  • Introduce tooling or automation to streamline processes or reduce overhead; partner with leaders to measure impact and drive continuous improvement across teams
  • Facilitate collaboration among cross-functional teams and influence decision-making within senior-level audiences; lead execution against recommendations quickly and accurately
  • Support psychological safety, team health, and happiness within the product org

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in a technology company in product management, product operations, or program management with significant interface with technical and business teams
  • Demonstrated experience driving product roadmap processes, investment planning, or strategic planning cycles
  • Experience with release readiness or launch operations, including building playbooks and driving cross-functional launch preparedness
  • Experience facilitating senior level alignment meetings and communicating complex tradeoffs to senior stakeholders
  • Familiarity with field feedback or voice-of-customer programs; ability to integrate qualitative and quantitative data into actionable product direction
  • Experience partnering with Data Science or Analytics teams to define KPIs, build tracking plans, and embed measurement into delivery workflows
  • Comfortable working across product, engineering, revenue, and operations teams to drive cross-functional alignment
  • Familiar with product and design tools such as Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, and whiteboarding tools
  • Experience with goal-setting frameworks (OKRs or similar) and progress tracking at the organizational level
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to create clarity across a large organization

Tech stack

JiraConfluenceSalesforcewhiteboarding toolsData ScienceAnalytics

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 to buy company stock at a discountVariable compensation-based incentives and commissions depending on roleStock-based compensation grants based on company and individual performance

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