The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. We have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.
Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small-medium-sized workplaces globally.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The Trade Desk is building a new advertising ecosystem for the benefit of humankind. We are helping the industry change the way we buy, sell and consume advertising as one of the leaders in the programmatic industry.
Our platform offers relevance and accuracy to advertising that generates a net positive global impact for our clients while remaining close to consumers' interests and the communities they support. For example, our globally adopted UID2 initiative promotes fair (content-for-data) value exchange while giving users complete control of their private data.
As a Senior UX Visual Designer at The Trade Desk , you'll be joining a fast-growing UX/UI team that consists of innovators from Blizzard, Amazon, Google, Samsung, McKinsey Digital, etc. We are on a mission to build robust yet elegant solutions that compete with the world's best user-centered platforms.
Our industry is complicated, but we don't believe our platform should be. And you have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions, consistently retaining industry leadership recognition, including in Gartner Magic Quadrant for the completeness of vision and ability to execute. But our creative push and commitment to innovate don't settle on accolades or accomplishments to date . Our extraordinary cross-functional UX/UI team relentlessly experiments with platform technologies, advanced computing capabilities, and groundbreaking user interface methods (including natural language processing) to make our users' product experience seamless and natural.
Our team thrives on collaborating across teams and digging in to fully understand the context of any problem. We value ideas and feedback from everyone. We're incredibly fortunate to partner with our power-user colleagues who use the platform daily and with our business leaders acting as a critical component for business value creation.
At The Trade Desk, we believe each opportunity to engage with consumers is unique. Because of this, our platform provides advertisers and their agencies an unprecedented level of power to describe and reach their target audience. This means user experience can make or break our business - our users must have all the flexibility to harness our system's growing power and should be able to use our platform with unparalleled ease and precision.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
As a Senior UX Visual D esigner:

• You will help create and implement a solid UX Visual Design vision for the Trade Desk platform. This vision should be actionable, backed by research, and compelling enough to make the product roadmap .
• You can effectively translate brand guidelines into a design system, from colors, to typography to iconography.
• You have experience visualizing data, designing beautiful and interactive visuals that surface insights easily understood by users .
• You have experience b uilding data dashboards that tell compelling data stories while provid ing valuable and actionable insights.
• You can bridge the gap between Trade Desk marketing design teams and the Trade Desk product design teams through collaboration and transparency . You'll need to understand our branding direction and hold the platform to our premium branding standards.
• You will create, manage , and maintain a design style guide and help to make sure styles are implemented correctly across our design teams through design libraries and throughout the platform with our reusable component system.
• You are experienced with UX/UI design and the interplay with UX visuals and can create a visual design system that maps to complex UIs (e.g., button states, alerts and notifications, empty states).

• You can quickly and thoroughly create wireframes and high-fidelity mockups and prototypes. You see visuals as more than a 'skin' ... you are an expert at layout composition , creating multiple different explorations to delight users .
• You can effectively collaborate with engineers, product managers , researchers, and business stakeholders, remotely and in person.
• You understand how design impacts development and vice versa. Your designs should be feasible to implement, and you'll make sure they're implemented accurately. You also know when to push for change as needed to enable your visuals.
• You are comfortable working with product managers to proactively identify areas of the product that need improvement and to push product managers to see beyond incremental features.

• You are comfortable explaining your work and research findings to anyone, including executives .
• You are a passionate advocate for the user but know when to look beyond their requests to discover the true problem.
• You help other designers grow by providing feedback and guidance, teaching them new skills, inspiring them to reach career goals, and helping them to prioritize, plan, and deliver designs on time.
• As a lifelong learner, you keep up with technology and design trends, striving for our platform to be modern and innovative.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5 + years of relevant design experience.
• Bachelors' Degree in a design or design related discipline or equivalent experience .
• Established track record of being an effective and creative problem solver .
• A professional portfolio demonstrating a solid background in UX visual design ( Portfolio required for consideration ) .

• Expert-level knowledge of industry standard design tools ( Sketch , Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.) .

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Our Compensation and Benefits (for NY, CO, CA, and WA residents only)
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
$116,800 -$214,100
In accordance with NY, CO, CA, and WA law, the range provided is The Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, 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 sales-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
The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.