Staff Product Manager, Data Flows and Governance
About the Role
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.
Who We're Looking For
We're looking for a technically sharp, cross-functional Staff Product Manager to own how data flows, gets cataloged, and stays governed across TTD's platform. This is a high-impact role sitting at the intersection of internal data access, metadata infrastructure, and compliance, ensuring the right people can access the right data. You bring structure and clarity to complex, cross-functional data problems and know how to move engineering and business stakeholders toward the same page.
You're the right candidate if you:
- Know what it takes to build a data catalog that engineers actually use and a schema registry that doesn't break downstream pipelines
- Understand how GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and emerging privacy frameworks translate into concrete product requirements, not as an afterthought, but as a foundation
- Have working knowledge of Unity Catalog and other catalog-based use cases to enable more efficient internal workflows
- Think carefully about internal data entitlements, who should have access, under what conditions, and how that holds up against contractual and compliance obligations
What You'll Be Doing
Data Catalog & Governance
- Own the product roadmap for schema evolution and versioning, ensuring backward and forward compatibility without breaking downstream applications or pipelines
- Define requirements for drift detection tooling that monitors real-time schema changes across unstructured and semi-structured data inputs
- Build the semantic mapping layer linking technical schema columns to business terms in a centralized