Director of Product, Catalog and Content Understanding, Content Platform Operations & Publishing

Netflix Netflix · Big Tech · Los Gatos, CA +2 · Product Management

Director of Product role at Netflix focused on scaling content understanding systems using AI/ML. The role involves driving product strategy, leading product managers and functional teams (operations, ratings, analysts, editorial) to automate and scale areas like ratings, content analysis, and catalog management. It requires experience with ML/AI solutions, shipping AI-powered products, and understanding of computer vision methods.

What you'd actually do

  1. Inspire a high-performing multi-disciplinary team of product managers, ratings professionals, content analysts, data/catalog experts, and taxonomists to transform and automate how we classify content, assets, and our catalog. Transform products, tools, and workflows that play a critical role in catalog and content understanding and connect our members to our product and content in a meaningful and scalable way.
  2. Build bridges with leaders around the world to establish great collaboration with other product teams, government affairs, engineering, design, and data science.
  3. Balance requests from various stakeholders across the organization and cast them into a forward-thinking and ambitious vision and roadmap for catalog and content understanding innovation and AI investments, driving execution and velocity towards your goals.
  4. Improve the team by attracting, developing and retaining high-performance product managers, operators, and editorial experts who excel within a diverse and inclusive environment and high performance, learning oriented culture.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience leading a product management function at global scale with an emphasis on ML/AI solutions
  • Strong systems thinker
  • Built and maintained strong and effective cross-functional partnerships
  • Advanced to intermediate understanding and depth in machine learning & evaluation techniques, especially computer vision methods
  • Significant experience shipping them via AI powered products
  • Managed and developed people managers and experienced product managers
  • Operate successfully in ambiguous situations
  • Change agent

Nice to have

  • AI technology for B2B2C solutions
  • Experience building and innovating on human-in-the-loop workflows and automation products

What the JD emphasized

  • ML/AI solutions
  • shipping them via AI powered products
  • computer vision methods
  • AI investments

Other signals

  • AI/ML is core to the role's function
  • The role drives product strategy and innovation for AI investments
  • The role leads teams focused on automating and scaling content understanding systems
  • Experience shipping AI powered products is required