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People Engagement Director

The Trade Desk
$137,300-$251,800 USD
life insurance, parental leave, paid holidays, sick time, tuition reimbursement, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, California, Ventura
42 North Chestnut Street (Show on map)
May 05, 2026
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. The Trade Desk's People Engagement team is responsible for bringing our unique TTD culture to life through programs, communications, and initiatives that ensure everyone feels welcomed, heard, valued, and inspired. Reporting to the Senior Director of People Engagement, the People Engagement Director will help the team design interactive experiences and content that drives engagement, belonging, and development. What You'll Do: In this role, you'll work across the team and with partner teams to plan and develop experiences and drive key engagement outcomes across the employee lifecycle -- from new hire programs to targeted team-based experiences. You'll also support our team's operations, helping us use our data to tell a clear story on the state of our internal landscape, and ensuring we're connecting dots across our complex ecosystem of programs and platforms. You'll drive continued measurement of our efforts as we continue to build new processes, tools, and learning to improve and scale our strategic engagement efforts. Key Responsibilities: Oversee redesign of new hire experience and content: Lead a strategic audit across all new hire touchpoints to identify areas to better connect and align messaging and experiences based on specific learning and engagement outcomes. Create a strategy and plan for prioritizing and executing content changes, partnering with internal and external stakeholders as needed. Build new and updated content across business and cultural content that meets the needs of new hires at each unique stage of their onboarding. Build relationships with functional partners to ensure deep connection with role-specific training to drive speed to productivity. Establish measurement and success metrics and recommend program updates over time based on results. Lead experience design, content, and enablement for high-priority engagement programs: Drive strategy and content development for critical engagement programs, launches, and change initiatives, bringing the story to life through content and design. Partner on cultural transformation work, developing concepts and content for activating and reinforcing key cultural behaviors across the organization. Serve as a strategic business advisor on opportunities to bring learning concepts or cultural changes to life based on feedback from our employee engagement survey. Lead team operations and system optimizations: Manage a landscape view of our team's programs, operations, and metrics that connect everything we do and drive understanding and connection with key partners. Drive intentional process improvements that help our team reach our key engagement outcomes. Who You Are: 12+ years of experience in the People space, with significant experience in learning, content development, and communications. Experience building foundational elements of programs and concepts from conception to execution. A values-aligned team player who demonstrates an understanding and passion for employee engagement, belonging and development. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to share a strong point of view that influences cross-functional groups and drives a clear direction. Ability to work confidently and thrive in a rapidly changing, fast-paced and results-oriented environment where a high degree of flexibility is required. Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a team while meeting deadlines. Experience with digital communications technology. #LI-JK1 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 At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is $137,300 — $251,800 USD As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. Please reach out to us ataccommodations@thetradedesk.comto 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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