Head of Engineering for VenturaOS

Job title: Head of Engineering for VenturaOS

About the Role

The Trade Desk is seeking a Head of Engineering for VenturaOS to lead the engineering organization and serve as the senior technical leader for the platform. This CTO-caliber role will own VenturaOS technical strategy, architecture, and execution while partnering closely with Product, Business, and Executive leadership to shape the platform roadmap, ecosystem, and business. This is a highly strategic role for a leader who can build and scale a complex operating system across diverse hardware, OEM partners, and global markets.

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 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.

• What We're Looking For

• 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.

• Nice to Have

• Experience in Connected TV, consumer operating systems, digital media platforms, or large-scale device ecosystems is strongly preferred.

• Compensation & Benefits

• Stock-based compensation grants; eligibility and size determined by company and individual performance.

• Additional compensation options such as variable incentives and commissions.

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid for employees and dependents.