Director, Data Partnerships (Retail Focused)

August 2

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Description

• Drive strategic growth of our retailers’ offsite and self-serve business. This includes ongoing management across a dedicated portfolio of newly established & existing retail partnerships. • Additionally, executive-level partnership & relationship-building, providing thought leadership & perspective to drive the retailer’s business forward, along with supporting go-to-market initiatives with internal The Trade Desk and external retailer sales team leads. • Drive adoption of retail data across advertiser and agency partners. This includes education and evangelization of the power of Retail Data within overarching audience strategies and across full-funnel programmatic activations and within larger measurement frameworks. • Exercise a consistent mode of strong influence and forward-looking mindset with retailers, advertisers and agencies in an existing state of industry ambiguity and learning. • Manage existing retail data partnerships, ensuring retailers maximize their revenue opportunity. • Support commercial teams to drive adoption of data solutions.

Requirements

• Proven strategic thought leader who understands the programmatic and data landscape with a knack toward audience-first planning & buying approaches to help accelerate offsite media activation inclusive of retail data • Familiarity with foundational retail measurement solutions & performance-based outcome metrics (ROAS, iROAS, sales lift, etc.) in addition to reach & frequency standard industry media metrics. • Ability to convey core concepts and connect stakeholders at a macro and micro level to influence and navigate technical integration and procedural contracting and negotiation processes across different types of teams such as Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance. • Thrive in a fast-paced environment, are a creative problem-solver, communicate effectively and are adept at building internal and external relationships. • 10+ years experience creating and building differentiated relationships across Retailers, Data Partners and Advertisers • Track record of expanding partnerships • Digital media expertise required; Familiarity with the retail data and digital identity highly preferred • Adept at closing contracts and negotiating with partners • Proven communication, questioning and listening skills in formal and informal settings • Comfort with fast-paced, dynamic working environment with shifting priorities • Ability to build excellent rapport with internal (Legal, Technical, Finance, Product) and external stakeholders; strong collaborative teamwork is a must • Must be comfortable with complexity and thinking on multiple levels of abstraction; demonstrated use of critical thinking techniques

Benefits

• 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 • Around 13 paid holidays per year • Discounted stock purchase plan