Principal Product Manager, Core Platform

Job title: Principal Product Manager, Core Platform

About the Role

As Principal Product Manager, Core Platform, you will own the vision and roadmap for the core platform capabilities powering Ventura TV OS. You will work with OEMs, ODMs, SoC partners, and internal product and engineering teams to ensure Ventura TV OS is robust, performant, and partner-ready. This role focuses on the core operating system layer — defining the platform primitives, policies, and integrations that enable scalable, compliant, high-quality experiences across a complex device and partner ecosystem.

What You'll Do

• Own the vision, roadmap and execution for core platform capabilities, including overall system-level UX, setup, settings, profiles, privacy, and compliance

• Own the vision and definition of platform requirements including hardware, memory, performance, security, etc.

• Work with OEM, ODM, and SoC partners on platform requirements, hardware/software integration, performance, and roadmap alignment

• Define platform standards for onboarding, authentication, consent, data handling, and OS-level enforcement

• Lead Ventura TV OS privacy and compliance from a product perspective, partnering closely with legal, policy, engineering, and data teams

• Define certification requirements and validation processes to ensure devices meet Ventura TVOS quality, performance, privacy, and compliance standards

• Drive cross-functional execution from concept through launch, balancing technical feasibility, compliance needs, and ecosystem requirements

• What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of product management experience, ideally in platforms, operating systems, devices, or ecosystem products

• Experience working with OEMs, ODMs, SoC vendors, or complex hardware-software ecosystems

• Strong understanding of how hardware, OS, and platform services come together at scale

• Proven ability to translate regulatory, privacy, and compliance requirements into clear platform capabilities

• Comfortable operating at both strategic and deeply executional levels in highly cross-functional environments

• Compensation & Benefits

• 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 401(k) 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 through 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

• 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