Sr Director, Chief of Staff
The Trade Desk · Bellevue; New York
- On site
- Bellevue; New York
About the role
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 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.
We are hiring a Senior Director, Chief of Staff to the Chief Marketing Officer - This is a high-impact leadership role for a strategic operator who can help the global Marketing organization focus on the work that matters most. You will serve as a trusted partner to the CMO, bringing structure to ambiguity, improving decision velocity, and building the operating mechanisms that keep Marketing aligned, accountable, and connected to commercial impact.
This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, communication, and execution. The ideal candidate is a seasoned marketing, strategy, or business operations leader who can zoom out to understand the big picture, zoom in to drive crisp follow-through, and influence senior stakeholders across Marketing and the broader company. You will help translate Marketing priorities into clear plans, ensure the right decisions are made with the right context, and drive disciplined execution across a fast-moving global organization.
What you’ll do
- Partner closely with the CMO to clarify priorities, frame tradeoffs, surface risks, and translate strategic direction into clear operating plans.
- Own and continuously improve the Marketing operating rhythm, including annual planning, quarterly priorities, leadership meetings, business reviews, budget planning, and progress tracking.
- Build lightweight systems for prioritization and decision-making, so the Marketing leadership team has clear context, crisp inputs, named owners, and visible accountability.
- Manage information flow across Marketing and key cross-functional partners, ensuring the right stakeholders have the right context at the right time.
- Lead a focused set of high-priority Marketing initiatives that require cross-functional alignment, senior judgment, and strong execution discipline.
- Drive coordination across Marketing, Finance, People, Product, Commercial, Legal, Procurement, and other partner teams to remove friction and accelerate progress.
- Partner with Finance and Marketing leaders to support budget planning, vendor management, investment governance, and resource allocation decisions.
- Support the CMO in preparing high-stakes internal and external moments by creating clear narratives, decision-ready materials, briefing documents, and communication plans.
- Partner with Marketing leadership and People teams on organizational design, talent planning, team effectiveness, change management, and business transformation.
- Lead Marketing’s digital transformation agenda, including practical AI adoption, workflow modernization, and scalable operating improvements that help the team work faster and smarter.
- Create mechanisms that make progress, blockers, ownership, and outcomes visible across the Marketing leadership team.
- Drive special projects as needed, including initiatives that may be ambiguous, highly complex, or cross-divisional in nature.
Who you are
- A senior operator with experience in marketing operations, business operations, strategy, consulting, program management, or a similar function within a complex, fast-growing technology company.
- Comfortable operating as a trusted advisor to a senior executive, with the judgment, discretion, and maturity to handle sensitive business, organizational, and people topics.
- Strategic and execution-oriented, with the ability to see the big picture, identify the “why,” prioritize what matters, and pivot quickly into tactical execution.
- Highly structured and organized, with strong program management instincts and the ability to create clarity without adding unnecessary processes.
- A strong communicator who can distill complex inputs into crisp narratives, executive-ready materials, and clear decisions.
- Skilled at influencing without authority and building consensus across senior stakeholders, peers, and cross-functional teams.
- Experienced in or closely adjacent to large-scale Marketing organizations, with a strong understanding of marketing operations, planning, budgeting, measurement, and transformation.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, diagnosing organizational friction, and building practical systems that help teams scale.
- Strong business judgment, with the ability to connect Marketing priorities to company strategy, commercial impact, and operational execution.
- Data-informed and financially literate, with experience partnering with Finance or business operations teams on budgets, vendors, resource planning, or performance insights.
- Curious about AI and digital transformation, with practical fluency in how emerging tools can improve team workflows, decision-making, and productivity.
- Low ego, high trust, and calm under pressure; able to bring pace, rigor, and accountability while building strong relationships across the organization.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience in marketing operations, strategy, business operations, consulting, program management, or related leadership roles.
- Experience supporting or partnering directly with senior executives, preferably in a global technology, media, advertising, SaaS, or marketplace business.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution.
- Experience building operating cadences, planning processes, executive forums, decision frameworks, or business review mechanisms.
- Strong executive communication skills, including written narratives, presentations, briefing materials, and leadership updates.
- Experience working closely with Marketing, Finance, People, Product, Commercial, or other cross-functional leadership teams.
Preferred:
- Deep understanding of B2B marketing, ad tech, programmatic advertising, or global go-to-market organizations.
- Experience with AI adoption, marketing technology, workflow automation, or operating model transformation.
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 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
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