Senior Director, Engineering & Applied Science - VenturaOS

What You'll Do

• Lead and scale the VenturaOS engineering organization across consumer experiences, platform software, device/OS engineering, backend services, monetization, partner integrations, and core infrastructure
• Own the long-term technical vision and architecture for VenturaOS, balancing near-term execution with long-term platform scalability and durability
• Partner with Product and Business leadership to shape platform strategy, roadmap, OEM partnerships, monetization, and ecosystem development
• Drive engineering strategy across diverse hardware environments, including chipset diversity, OEM customization, and fragmentation management
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, security, and scalability across millions of devices, with strong practices in OTA updates, observability, telemetry, and resilience
• Establish strong engineering principles, operating rhythms, and technical standards while building reusable platforms, APIs, tooling, and infrastructure that create long-term leverage
• Represent VenturaOS in executive and external partner discussions, serving as a trusted technical voice with OEMs, silicon partners, and senior leadership

Who You Are

• 15+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering organizations, including leaders of leaders
• Strong technical depth across operating systems, platform architecture, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
• Proven track record building and scaling platform, OS, or infrastructure-focused teams in fast-moving environments
• Deep understanding of platform dynamics, including OEM ecosystems, partner incentives, and the tradeoffs between openness, standardization, and customization
• Demonstrated ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and operate as a peer to Product and Business leadership
• Exceptional communication, executive presence, and ability to influence senior stakeholders and external partners
• Experience in Connected TV, consumer operating systems, digital media platforms, or large-scale device ecosystems is strongly preferred

Why Ventura Os

• Help define the future of Connected TV and the open internet
• Lead the technical vision for a global platform at massive scale
• Shape a platform at the intersection of hardware, software, and ecosystem strategy
• Work with world-class leaders on industry-defining challenges

Additional information

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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.

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Pay and benefits

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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 $243,400—$446,200 USD

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