Director of Product, Netflix
Developer Platform
The range for this role is $430,000 - $1,500,000. Plus Stock Options
Office located in Los Gatos, CA
Streaming service
Job no longer available
Streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
The range for this role is $430,000 - $1,500,000. Plus Stock Options
Office located in Los Gatos, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Entertainment, like friendship, is a fundamental human need; it changes how we feel and gives us common ground. Netflix is better entertainment at lower cost and greater scale than the world has ever seen. They want to entertain everyone, and make the world smile.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of experience managing a team of senior and staff technical product managers as a Director of Product, Group Product Manager, or similar role
- Proven track record of leading and scaling teams, managing and evolving a product portfolio, and driving product vision and strategy
- Deep technical knowledge paired with a customer-focused mindset and empathy
- Experience working on developer platforms with a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and passion for developer experience and productivity
- Strategic thinker who can connect customer use cases to technology solutions and think holistically about end-to-end experience
- Ability to manage a portfolio of projects, balancing short-term goals with long-term vision in a rapidly changing environment
- Proficiency in using both qualitative and quantitative methods to define success, with a track record of making data-driven decisions
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to leverage product intuition and judgment to make informed decisions in scenarios where perfect information may not be available
- Insatiable curiosity, with a passion for learning new domains, keeping up with industry innovation, and constantly questioning the status quo
- Excellent communication skills with a knack for setting clear expectations
- Experience navigating and leading in a fast-paced, agile environment with rapidly shifting priorities
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Director of Product to drive the evolution of our Developer Platform
- Your mission is to offer best-in-class experiences that empower and delight our software engineers, and simplify and accelerate their developer experience
- You will lead the overall product vision and strategy for our Developer Platform, managing a team of experienced technical product managers who are responsible for different product domains within the platform
- Your contributions will directly shape the future of development, influencing how we innovate and deliver entertainment to millions worldwide
- Our Developer Platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services encompassing the entire software development lifecycle
- Developer Experience:
- We provide a unified front door, the Netflix Console, for easy software and infrastructure management. This includes product discovery, learning, provisioning workflows, software catalog, inventory management, change campaigns, and core services like search
- Developer Foundations:
- We optimize the inner development loop to keep developers in the flow, with development environments and tools like IDEs, source code management, repository management, project initialization, and CLIs
- Application Development:
- We optimize application development by providing tools, frameworks, and libraries for specific personas and use cases (e.g., backend, frontend), including code authoring, build, test, and debug workflows, build systems, test frameworks, and more
- Continuous Integration & Delivery:
- We ensure safe delivery of changes from commit to production with robust, seamless integration of changes, delivery workflows and pipelines, global deployment orchestration, safe delivery and rollbacks, and fleetwide change orchestration
- Reliability & Resiliency:
- We ensure operational excellence and highly reliable, resilient, scalable systems with incident management and product readiness tools, testing frameworks, automation, reporting & insights, and product infrastructure experimentation (e.g., canaries, shadow traffic, performance testing, failure injection testing, chaos experiments, etc)
- Observability:
- We enable rapid issue detection and remediation with telemetry ingestion, storage, and querying of metrics, events, logs, and traces, monitoring and alerting, remediation, system health exploration and troubleshooting, and profiling and diagnostic tools
- Examples of opportunities that you and your PMs might tackle include unifying the developer experience, providing holistic end-to-end workflows, managing more for users through higher levels of abstraction, reducing toil, optimizing cycle times, defining how we measure developer experience and productivity, and ensuring we provide best-in-industry tooling
- You and your PMs will be responsible for managing a portfolio of products and driving holistic product strategy and prioritization across them
- If you’re looking for a deeply technical and highly dynamic opportunity that will have an outsized impact on the future of developer experience at Netflix, we’d love to talk to you!
- Deeply understand customer needs, product analytics, and industry innovation to drive the product vision and strategy for Developer Platform, maximizing business and customer impact
- Lead, mentor, inspire, and grow a high-performance team of technical product managers, developing strategies, roadmaps, and specifications that prioritize the most impactful opportunities
- Collaborate with senior management to align vision, strategy, success metrics, and roadmaps
- Foster a collaborative environment with Netflix engineers, creating continuous feedback loops to ensure we're solving the right problems and driving maximum impact for Netflix
- Stay informed about industry advancements, influence their direction, and conduct comprehensive buy vs. build analysis to align with state-of-the-art solutions, encouraging ROI-based decisions
- Foster a metrics-driven environment that encourages quality experimentation and sets high standards for measuring product success
- Exhibit robust problem-solving and decision-making skills, tackling both technical and strategic challenges in innovative ways, and leveraging both data and intuition to make strategic choices in the face of ambiguity and complexity
- Ensure thoughtful product evolution that addresses product lifecycle and adoption experience
- Help evolve Platform Engineering’s customer engagement model, communication strategy, and prioritization and planning practices
- Collaborate with other product leaders across Platform Engineering and Netflix to evolve our practices and competencies in technical product management
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Netflix was started when one of the co-founders had received a $40 late fee after failing to return a film on time. Now, Netflix is one of the fastest growing technology companies, reinventing the entertainment space by providing high quality content for low fees.
This is becoming an increasingly competitive space, with deep-pocketed rivals including Amazon, Disney, Apple and AT&T. They are all spending big on content and pricing cheaply in a battle to win subscribers.
After a dwindling number of subscribers due to tough competition in 2022, Netflix is focused and committed to improving its core service which is its TV, movies and now games going forward. Post-IPO funding of $183 million from Winslow Capital at the end of 2023 followed the previous year's dumping of shares by the same company after Netflix's first loss of subscribers. This capital indicates a shifting perspective on Netflix's outlook, which saw a year-end subscriber boost.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2000
$50m
SERIES E
Jul 1999
$30m
SERIES D
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Inclusion
- You work well with people of different backgrounds, identities, values and cultures
- You are excited to help build diverse teams where everyone feels welcomed and respected
- You recognize we all have biases and work to counteract them
- You take action if someone is marginalizing a colleague
- You treat everyone with respect regardless of their position at Netflix
- Integrity
- You exhibit and are known for candor and transparency
- You only say things about colleagues that you are willing to share with them
- You admit mistakes openly and share learnings widely
- You always share relevant information internally, even when uncomfortable
- You act with good intent and trust your colleagues to do the same
- Passion
- You care deeply about Netflix‘s success
- You inspire others with your drive for excellence
- You are excited about your work
- You are proud to entertain the world
- You are tenacious and optimistic
- Innovation
- You develop new ideas that prove impactful
- You look for every opportunity to reduce complexity and keep things simple
- You challenge prevailing assumptions, and suggest better approaches
- You are flexible and thrive in a constantly evolving organization
- Curiosity
- You learn rapidly and eagerly
- You seek alternate perspectives to improve your ideas
- You see patterns and connections that other people miss
- You seek to understand members’ changing tastes and desires
Company HQ
Los Gatos, CA
Founders
Reed Hastings
(Chairman)Served two years with the Peace Corps in Switzerland. Studied Computer Science at Stanford, and founded Pure Software (which sold for a substantial profit before Netflix). Previously a Board Member at Microsoft and Facebook.
Greg Peters
(Co-CEO)Previously Netflix COO and CPO, SVP and CE of Product Development at Macrovision, VP of Engineering at Mediabolic, Director at Redhat inc, VP Engineering at NOCpulse.
People progressing
Joined as a Content Strategy Associate in LA. Moved to London after 6 months. They have been promoted to Head of Content Strategy & Analysis UK.
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