Director, Digital Marketing

New York City, NY (On-site)

$137K/yr – $252K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own NAMER digital media strategy with cross-functional leadership to drive awareness, pipeline, and revenue through data-driven, multi-channel campaigns.

  • Own media architecture across programmatic, paid social, and search, plus budget, measurement, and executive reporting.
  • Lead in-house programmatic and digital marketing teams, mentor staff, and manage key vendor partnerships to scale performance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the North America (NAMER) digital media strategy, developing best-in-class integrated media and campaign plans that drive awareness, engagement, pipeline growth, and revenue contribution.
  • Serve as the organization's strategic advisor on media planning, audience strategy, measurement, channel optimization, and creative activation, partnering closely with Campaigns, Brand, Operations, Product Marketing, Sales, and Analytics teams.
  • Leverage first-party, third-party, intent, behavioral, and proprietary data to effectively reach and engage key personas and target accounts.
  • Oversee annual budgeting, forecasting, and investment allocation across all paid digital channels, ensuring alignment with leadership budget guidance and marketing goals.
  • Drive ongoing optimization, testing, and innovation across channels, audiences, creative, identity solutions, and measurement methodologies to improve effectiveness and efficiency of media budget.
  • Define measurement frameworks, KPIs, reporting standards, and executive performance reviews, ensuring digital marketing investments are clearly connected to business impact and actionable insights.
  • Provide strategic leadership for the in-house digital marketing and programmatic teams, establishing operating cadence, and a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of digital marketers, strengthening strategic and technical capabilities, and expanding the team's overall impact.
  • Serve as the primary relationship owner for key media, technology, data, and measurement partners, continuously evaluating new vendors, partnerships, and emerging capabilities that strengthen marketing performance.
  • Partner with Business Development teams to share audience insights, engagement trends, campaign learnings, and industry best practices that support customer conversations and commercial growth.
  • Serve as consultant on our B2B sales strategy, informing our B2B client partnerships and pitches with your knowledge of programmatic best practices to accelerate sector growth.
  • Partner with EMEA and APAC digital marketing counterparts to scale best practices, innovation, and performance across regions.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in digital marketing, media strategy, performance marketing, and demand generation, with significant experience in B2B technology, SaaS, or advertising technology environments.
  • Proven experience leading integrated media strategies across programmatic, paid social, paid search, direct digital, and emerging channels.
  • Deep expertise in B2B marketing best practices, audience targeting, account-based marketing, complex buying journeys, and partner landscape.
  • Strong understanding of modern programmatic advertising ecosystems, including DSPs, audience platforms, identity solutions, measurement methodologies, and attribution frameworks.
  • Demonstrated success managing multi-million-dollar media budgets and optimizing investments against business outcomes.
  • Experience leading and developing high-performing digital marketing or media teams.
  • Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to translate complex performance data into strategic recommendations and executive-level insights.
  • Experience managing agency, publisher, platform, and technology partner relationships.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
  • Ability to balance strategic planning with operational execution in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with marketing automation and CRM platforms including Marketo and Salesforce.
  • Experience leveraging BI and analytics tools such as Tableau.
  • Global marketing experience and success working across international teams.
  • Passion for innovation and identifying emerging opportunities in media, measurement, audience strategy, and marketing technology.

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
  • parential 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
  • employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Founded in 2009
Ventura, California, USA
4.6K employees (289 in marketing)
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90% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
643.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$191.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.5%
Direct
56.8%
Referral
5.9%
Social
1.6%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
222 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
4.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$257.5M
Last Raise
$125M
Post IPO Equity, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2021
    Post IPO Equity
  • May 2016
    Debt Financing • $125M
  • Mar 2016
    Series C • $60M

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