Senior Product Manager, Regulatory Compliance

Senior Product Manager The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. With a media buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers - and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day. If you are talented, driven, creative, and eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk We seek an experienced, strategic, and technically savvy Senior Product Manager to lead Regulatory Compliance and Data Governance efforts across our platform. You'll drive policies, tools, and product roadmaps that ensure privacy, compliance, and trust, while empowering stakeholders across product, legal, engineering, and data teams. If you thrive in fast-moving environments and are comfortable working ambiguity, this role may be for you. You must have experience working closely with Legal and Policy teams as well as platform PM/Eng teams as a horizontal. Define and execute the vision and roadmap for regulatory compliance and data governance across globally distributed platforms. Partner with cross-functional teams-including legal, privacy, security, product, engineering, and data science-to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, scalable product features and governance frameworks. Design and oversee governance processes for data collection, handling, storage, access, and deletion, ensuring compliance with global regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and emerging privacy standards. Build tooling and processes to operationalize consent management, data lineage tracking, auditability, and regulatory reporting. Anticipate emerging regulations and privacy trends, advising on product strategy, risk mitigation, and compliance readiness. Communicate program goals, trade-offs, and timelines clearly to senior leadership and external stakeholders. 4+ years of Product Management experience with a focus on compliance, data governance, privacy, enterprise data platforms, or closely related domains. Demonstrated success in building governance frameworks or compliance tooling in a complex software or ad tech environment working with large data sets. Strong technical fluency-understanding of data systems, pipelines, APIs, security, and legal/ethical risk mitigation. Excellent strategic thinking: adept at envisioning long-term, scalable solutions and executing them iteratively (working backwards from customer and business needs). Proven record of driving cross-functional alignment and delivery in ambiguous, fast-paced settings. Exceptional communication skills-able to navigate discussions involving legal, technical, and business stakeholders, and build consensus across them. Resilience and grit-comfortable iterating through evolving regulations and ambiguous product decisions. Preferred: CIPP/CIPM/CIPT certification and hands-on experience with AdTech platforms (e.g., DSPs, DMPs, APIs, programmatic workflows). 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