Sr Director, Chief of Staff

About this 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.

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