The Trade Desk

The Trade Desk runs two distinct early-careers tracks on its Early Careers page: a full-time Client Services Associate Program for recent graduates that begins with 10 weeks of training on programmatic advertising and the platform before associates join a specific team, and a 12-week Summer Internship for current students across Software Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, and Technical Operations.

The internship's geographic spread is narrower than the function list suggests:

• North America (Client Services): Chicago, Los Angeles, New York
• North America (Software Engineering): Bellevue/Seattle, Boulder, San Francisco Bay Area, New York
• North Asia (Software Engineering): Tokyo
• South Asia (Software Engineering): Hong Kong, Singapore, Bengaluru
• ANZ (Software Engineering): Sydney
• EMEA (Software Engineering): London

Data Science, Product Management, and Technical Operations are North-America-only in the published cycle. A candidate outside the Americas in those functions has a single geography to target, and a software-engineering candidate has the option to pattern-match a single application across several regional postings.

The firm's Early Careers page publishes one rolling window per region for the 12-week internship:

• North America, North Asia (Tokyo), South Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Bengaluru), and EMEA (London): posted in mid-August and open until filled, usually by November
• Australia and New Zealand (Sydney): posted in April and open until filled, usually by July, tracking the Southern Hemisphere summer

All windows are "open until filled" rather than fixed-deadline, so the earliest submissions are read first; a late-October application competes against ten weeks of earlier ones. The Northern-Hemisphere postings also compress into the same August-to-November stretch, which means a candidate applying across North America, Asia, and London is preparing materials for a single autumn cluster rather than spreading the workload across the year.

The Trade Desk is the largest independent demand-side platform in digital advertising, per the firm's DSP product page and corroborated by Wikipedia. Independence is the structural fact: the firm does not own media inventory, which separates it from Google's DV360 and Amazon's DSP, and shapes what the work is.

• A single core product (the DSP), not a diversified portfolio: engineering and client-services work concentrate on one platform that every customer uses
• Roughly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices globally, with formal intern hiring in 15 of them
• 2024 revenue around $2.44 billion, the engineering organisation building Kokaia, its AI-driven media-buying platform launched in 2023

For an early-career applicant choosing between ad-tech employers, the consequence is depth versus rotation: an intern here works on the same platform across functions and regions rather than rotating between business lines, which suits a candidate who wants to go deep on one system over the summer.

Yes. The Trade Desk currently has 1 open internship or graduate role on Jorb AI: summer internships, insight programs, graduate schemes, and early-career positions across the United Kingdom. Postings update continuously as new roles are added and filled.

The Trade Desk has open internship and graduate roles in the United Kingdom. Specific offices and program structure (summer vs year-round, internship vs graduate scheme) vary by region; check individual postings for details.

Applications to The Trade Desk go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. The Trade Desk does not use third-party submission services.