Staff Product Manager, Regulatory Compliance

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The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? 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 are proud of the culture we have built. 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.

So, if you are talented, driven, creative, and eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team, then we want to talk

Who We Are Looking For
We seek an experienced, strategic, and technically savvy Staff 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 through ambiguity, this role may be for you. You must have experience working closely with Legal and Policy teams as well as platform PM and Engineering teams as a horizontal.

What You Will Be Doing

• Define and execute the vision and roadmap for regulatory compliance and data governance across globally distributed platforms.
• Build tooling and processes to operationalize consent management, data lineage tracking, auditability, and regulatory reporting.
• 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.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design back-end systems, APIs, and data architectures that embed compliance into the platform's core data flows from ingestion pipelines to data warehousing, identity resolution, and reporting layers.
• Define requirements for compliance automation tooling, data access frameworks, and service-level controls that enforce privacy-by-design principles.
• 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.

What You Bring To The Table

• 8+ 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 in back-end systems and data architecture including event-driven systems, distributed data pipelines, and data modeling concepts.
• Hands-on experience working with engineering teams on API design, data schema evolution, and access control models across services and databases.
• Excellent strategic thinking, adept at envisioning long-term, scalable solutions and executing them iteratively while 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, or CIPT certification and hands-on experience with AdTech platforms such as DSPs, DMPs, APIs, or 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 condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

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The Trade Desk will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No

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CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC residents only:
In accordance with CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC law, 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, abilities, 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 sales-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 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 $137,300—$251,800 USD

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

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