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# Talent Acquisition Operations Manager at The Trade Desk

- **Company:** The Trade Desk
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $78k–$142k
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thetradedesk/jobs/5270327007

## Job description

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.

What we do:

Recruiting Operations at The Trade Desk runs on two deliberately separated motions: RUN, which delivers predictable execution of the repeatable work recruiters depend on every day, and CHANGE, which designs and delivers the programs and process improvements that scale globally. The Projects & Programs pillar sits at the intersection. It owns cross-functional delivery and rigor, it owns process, knowledge, adoption, and enablement, and it owns the single front door — the one intake channel through which every TA Ops request arrives, is routed, and is made visible. This role is how that pillar runs day to day. You will own the intake queue, keep the documentation and knowledge layer current and trusted, provide hands-on support across our recruiting systems, and carry the project management rhythm that keeps programs moving. You will be based in New York and provide timezone coverage for our EMEA and APAC teams. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. It is a tactical, hands-on role by design: the measure of success is that recruiters get fast, accurate answers, that nothing falls through the cracks, and that the work of improving the function never stalls on operational drag.

What you'll do:

Request Intake & Queue Management

- Own the queue day to day. Triage, categorize, and route every incoming TA Ops request to the right pillar and owner, with consistent acknowledgement, clear ownership, and visible status from submission to resolution.
- Hold the response standard. Meet published acknowledgement and resolution expectations, and flag early when volume or complexity puts them at risk.
- Improve the intake experience. Refine intake forms and routing logic so requests arrive with the information needed to action them.
- Report on what the queue is telling us. Track volume, mix, resolution time, and recurring pain points, and surface the patterns that should become process fixes or roadmap items.

Systems Support (L1 / L2)

- Be the first line across the stack. Triage and resolve issues in Greenhouse and adjacent tools, diagnosing root cause rather than just clearing the ticket.
- Handle routine configuration. Make day-to-day configuration changes — job and requisition templates, interview plans, scorecards, approval routing, user permissions, custom fields, notifications — working inside the standards and change-management guardrails set by our Technology & Innovation pillar.
- Escalate cleanly. Recognize what is yours and what is not. Integrations, data model changes, permissions architecture, vendor issues, and anything requiring code go to Technology & Innovation with a clear, reproducible write-up.
- Provide global coverage. Be the New York anchor for a globally distributed recruiting team, with practical handoffs and documentation that let EMEA and APAC colleagues self-serve outside your hours.

Documentation & Knowledge Management

- Usher in a new era. Rethink the way knowledge management works, by implementing an infrastructure that allows for an easy to navigate, dynamic, and interactive experience for users that they trust and check before they ask.
- Own the knowledge layer and keep it current. Build the capability to allow for more efficient maintaining a rich knowledge base of SOPs, process maps, runbooks, FAQs, and self-serve content.
- Document what is real. Capture how the process actually works, including the exceptions and workarounds, not the idealized version.

Project Management & Delivery Support

- Run the rhythm. Maintain trackers, timelines, action logs, and RAID items for active programs; schedule and prepare working sessions; chase and close open items.
- Own workstreams end to end. Take discrete pieces of larger programs and deliver them — including testing, cutover support, and post-launch hypercare.
- Keep stakeholders informed. Produce clear, honest status updates that make progress and blockers legible without a meeting.

Change Management & Enablement

- Land the change, not just the launch. Build the communications, training materials, release notes, and office hours that get a new process or system change adopted.
- Own adoption. Measure the success (or failure) of adoption, create accountability models, and use those models to hold stakeholders accountable
- Iterate and improve. Collect and synthesize the data and qualitative feedback to understand blockers to adoption, and turn them into actionable improvements.

Data Integrity & Operational Reporting

- Protect the data. Run audits and enforce hygiene standards in Greenhouse and adjacent systems so downstream reporting and AI output are trustworthy.
- Build the recurring reports. Operational reporting on queue health, request mix, process compliance, and data quality for TA Ops leadership.

Who you are:

- 4+ years in Recruiting Operations, HR Operations, People Technology, technical support, or project coordination supporting a Talent or HR function.
- Hands-on experience administering or configuring an ATS. Greenhouse strongly preferred; comparable experience with Workday Recruiting, SmartRecruiters, Lever, iCIMS, or Ashby considered.
- Experience owning a request queue, ticket backlog, or service desk — you know how to triage, prioritize, and keep a backlog from becoming a graveyard.
- Demonstrated documentation ability. You can take a tangled, undocumented process and produce something a new joiner could follow, and you keep it current.
- Proficiency with project and collaboration tooling — Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint — including building forms, trackers, and workflows rather than only using them.
- Comfort with data: building reports and dashboards, spotting anomalies, and reasoning about why a number looks wrong.
- Strong written communication. Much of this role is asynchronous and global; your writing is the product.
- Highly organized and self-sufficient. You hold many small open threads without dropping them, and you close them out without being chased.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a service mindset — you treat a frustrated recruiter as a problem to solve, not a problem to deflect.

## Nice to Have

- Experience supporting a multi-region or globally distributed recruiting team across time zones.
- Experience with a ticketing or service management platform (Jira Service Management, ServiceNow, Zendesk, or similar).
- Experience building automations — workflow rules, forms, integrations between tools.
- Exposure to hiring compliance requirements (GDPR, CCPA, pay transparency, OFCCP) and how they translate into system configuration.
- Experience in a high-growth, publicly traded, or matrixed global environment.
- Exposure to AI-assisted recruiting tooling.

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. 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](https://careers.thetradedesk.com/us/en) 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 $77,600—$142,200 USD

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

Please reach out to us at accommodations@​thetradedesk.​com to request an accommodation or discuss any accessibility needs you may require to access our Company Website or navigate any part of the hiring process.

When you contact us, please include your preferred contact details and specify the nature of your accommodation request or questions. Any information you share will be handled confidentially and will not impact our hiring decisions.

## About The Trade Desk

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, empowering brands and agencies to plan, launch, and optimize programmatic campaigns across all channels with precision and transparency.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: TTD)
- **Headquarters**: Ventura, California, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (commonly 2009, but not verified in provided sources)
- **Founders**: Jeff Green (Chairman, CEO, and Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Programmatic digital advertising technology (AdTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B – advertising agencies, trading desks, brands, and marketers
- **Mission**: To power relevant advertising by providing an independent, transparent media buying platform for the open internet, fostering a healthier global advertising ecosystem.

## Products & Services
- **Demand-Side Platform (DSP)**: The core self-service, cloud-based platform for creating, activating, optimizing, and analyzing programmatic campaigns across display, video, connected TV (CTV), audio, and native formats.  
- **Koa™**: Proprietary artificial intelligence that enhances decisioning, extends audience reach, and improves spend efficiency.  
- **Planner**: A comprehensive tool for developing data-driven media plans using audience insights to accelerate campaign performance from the start.  
- **Data Management Platform (DMP)**: A unified solution for onboarding and managing advertiser data, purchasing third-party data, and customizing audience models for activation.  
- **Enterprise APIs**: A complete toolkit for building customized omnichannel bidding platforms.  
- **Publisher Management Platform**: Flexible, centralized solution for managing first-party direct deals and accessing a robust third-party deal library.  
- **OpenPath**: A direct supply path that gives advertisers access to inventory with fewer intermediaries and publishers transparency into advertiser willingness to pay.  
- **Unified ID 2.0 (UID2)**: An open-source, privacy-centric identity framework designed to provide holistic targeting and measurement without reliance on third-party cookies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in sources (publicly traded; latest figures available on investors.thetradedesk.com)
- **Key Metric**: Nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices worldwide; 95% client retention rate for the past 12 years.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Public company with institutional and retail investors; partners include hundreds of data, inventory, and publisher partners (specific names not listed in sources).
- **Growth Signals**: Consistently named to Fortune 100 Fastest-Growing Companies (2021, 2025), TIME America’s Growth Leaders (2026), Forbes America’s Most Successful Mid-Cap Companies (2026); expanded to over 30 offices across Americas, EMEA, and APAC; continuous innovation in identity (UID2) and AI (Koa).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Independence**: Not owned or controlled by a walled-garden platform (e.g., Google, Amazon), giving clients objective, transparent media buying.
- **Open Internet Focus**: Committed to supporting quality journalism and premium content outside of social media and search.
- **Identity Solutions**: Pioneered Unified ID 2.0, a privacy-centric alternative to third-party cookies that is widely adopted across the ecosystem.
- **AI-Powered Optimization**: Koa AI leverages real-time data and machine learning to improve campaign outcomes.
- **Best-in-Class Brand Safety**: Comprehensive fraud detection, safety partnerships, and a dedicated Marketplace Quality team ensure ad placements are secure.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to lead the shift of advertising budgets from walled gardens to the open internet, especially in Connected TV and audio.
- Advancing privacy-compliant identity and measurement frameworks (UID2, OpenPath) to replace third-party cookies.
- Expanding global footprint and deepening partnerships with data, inventory, and publisher partners.
- Investing in AI and automation (Koa) to deliver more efficient and effective campaign performance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes an entrepreneurial spirit, growth mindset, and inclusion and belonging. Curiosity is rewarded, and employees are encouraged to own their work and learn from mistakes.  
- **Impact**: Employees work with the world’s biggest brands and have the opportunity to shape the future of advertising. With a 95% client retention rate, the platform is industry-defining.  
- **Perks & Benefits**: Wide range of perks and benefits offered globally (details available on careers page); recognized as a Great Place to Work in multiple countries (USA, UK, Canada, Germany, etc.).  
- **Awards**: Listed on Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces (2025), Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology (2023), and U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For (2024).  
- **Work Environment**: Offices in over 30 locations across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC; roles span engineering, data science, product management, sales, and more. (Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated in sources.)

## Sources
1. [thetradedesk.com](https://www.thetradedesk.com/about-us)
2. [careers.thetradedesk.com](https://careers.thetradedesk.com/)
3. [careers.thetradedesk.com (jobs)](https://careers.thetradedesk.com/jobs)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thetradedesk)
5. [TTD Corporate Fact Sheet (PDF)](https://assets.thetradedesk.com/assets/documents/TTD-Corporate-Fact-Sheet.pdf)

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