The Trade Desk
Technical Lead, TA Operations
Irvine; New York; San Francisco · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet - from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more.
- When you work here, your impact is worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction for a talent acquisition platform capability that leverages AI and workflow automation, covering architecture, technology choices, data models, and engineering standards, from requirements through production release.
- Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications and operational tools end to end, from development through testing and deployment.
- Partner with People Systems and Business Engineering teams to integrate recruiting and HR systems of record (e.g., Greenhouse, Workday, CRM/TRM tools), keeping data pipelines accurate and in sync.
- Design and build AI-powered tools, agents, and automations that improve recruiting quality and productivity, continuously evaluating emerging AI capabilities and translating them into practical, adopted solutions.
- Partner closely with stakeholders within and outside of the Talent Acquisition team to translate business challenges into scalable technical solutions.
- Act as a trusted technical partner to non-technical stakeholders: gather requirements, set expectations, communicate trade-offs, and incorporate feedback through iteration.
- Experience owning technical leadership for a system or platform, setting architecture and engineering standards, and driving delivery from design through production.
- Experience integrating systems and building data pipelines across platforms, with strong attention to data-model correctness and source-of-truth consistency.
- Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills, with the judgment to know when to build vs. buy vs. integrate.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, able to build trust and work directly with both technical partners and recruiting/HR stakeholders, from individual recruiters to leadership.
Requirements
- Strong full-stack engineering ability, with experience in modern web app development (e.g., React, TypeScript, Node/Express or similar), APIs, and data architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions, end to end.
Skills
- Advertising powers the content people love.
Compensation
- In accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role.
Company info
- The world's brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.
- 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.
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