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Netflix’s Infrastructure Engineering organization provides the backbone that powers Netflix's global scale and operations across business verticals. Within this organization, Data, AI & Experimentation Platforms accelerate product velocity and business impact by providing cohesive, reliable foundations for data, analytics, machine learning, and experimentation. Our mission is to drastically improve the productivity and delight of software and data practitioners, enabling them to move quickly from prototypes to shipped features, and from questions to decisions, with confidence and measurable outcomes.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a highly technical product manager to drive the next set of innovations within the Data Movement Platform in this organization, leading a product portfolio to drive significant business impact through your vision and product leadership. Your mission will be to provide a delightful and well-integrated experience across the online and offline data lifecycle, including storage, retrieval, movement, and processing, with a high degree of reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency for critical business use cases across Netflix. Some example initiatives you will lead include:
- Defining and executing the strategy for the overall Data Movement Platform
- Advancing both the abstraction-layer (DataMesh, DataBridge) and engine-layer (Kafka, Flink, Mantis) innovations across the portfolio
- Crafting a cohesive user experience by bringing together the capabilities of the products in your portfolio, the related systems, and providing self-serve capabilities
- Leveraging GenAI to further simplify the experience for your users
- Shaping the platform direction to support and accelerate agentic applications built by the customer teams
- Driving infrastructure excellence and efficiency (reliability, performance, cost, SLOs etc.)
You'll have the autonomy to set strategic direction, solve complex challenges, and make high-leverage decisions that impact thousands of software engineers and data practitioners across Netflix. By identifying breakthrough opportunities and championing solutions that advance business goals and user productivity, you'll evolve platform capabilities to maximize both immediate value and long-term success.
What makes this role exciting is the blend of strategic vision and hands-on leadership. You'll maintain a broad portfolio view while selectively diving deep where your expertise makes the biggest difference. Your success will be measured by enabling Netflix's growth, innovation, and competitive advantage, while delighting users with exceptional experiences that empower teams to work more efficiently and with greater satisfaction.
What You Will Do
As the Product Manager for Data Movement Platform, you will have the following responsibilities:
- Set Direction: Develop a compelling long-term vision and strategy for your portfolio, aligning user needs with business objectives and industry trends
- Champion Users: Build deep user understanding and empathy through regular engagement, research, and feedback loops to identify pain points and opportunities.
- Manage Roadmap: Develop and prioritize initiatives that balance immediate needs with strategic evolution to maximize impact, making thoughtful trade-offs and aligning stakeholders.
- Guide Development: Partner with design and engineering to define requirements, create intuitive interfaces, and validate solutions that ensure cohesive user journeys across the platform ecosystem, to delight users and enhance their productivity
- Support Architecture: Partner with engineering on critical architecture decisions that ensure platform sustainability, scalability, and flexibility while strategically managing technical debt.
- Drive Adoption: Create effective rollout strategies and promote new capabilities through targeted communication, education, and roadshows, while providing comprehensive documentation, learning resources, and self-service tools that accelerate adoption and reduce support burden.
- Drive Improvement: Define success metrics centered on user delight and productivity gains, and implement tracking to continuously improve platform capabilities through data-informed experiments.
- Establish Governance: Develop platform standards and processes that balance flexibility with standardization and innovation with stability to maintain quality and consistency, including API design guidelines, versioning policies, and deprecation protocols.
- Align Stakeholders: Build strategic relationships and foster cross-functional collaboration to drive alignment and create shared ownership of outcomes.
What We’re Looking For
We value candidates who can balance strategic thinking with tactical execution, technical depth with user empathy, and decisive leadership with collaborative partnership. This role requires someone who thrives in ambiguity, can navigate complex technical and organizational landscapes, and ultimately delivers significant impact for your users and Netflix as a whole.
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following attributes and experiences:
Technical Excellence
- Expertise: 8+ years of Technical Product Management experience (or equivalent technical role) in complex technical domains. Comfortable discussing technical design trade-offs and system quality attributes with engineering teams.
- Domain Knowledge: Strong knowledge of the Data Movement and Data Processing domain, including Streaming and Batch data processing (e.g., Flink, Kafka, Spark, CDC, Data Pipelines), with past experience of leading similar platform products in this domain
- Curiosity: Demonstrated passion for Data Movement, Data Processing, with a pulse on emerging trends. Actively seeks new perspectives and brings fresh thinking to technical challenges. Regularly uses products and observes customers to identify opportunities for improvement.
Product Leadership
- Strategic Vision: Proven track record of managing product portfolios in complex technical domains with a clear vision and strategy to maximize portfolio impact. Skilled at connecting business objectives with user needs, balancing quick wins with strategic bets, and making thoughtful trade-offs.
- Customer Obsession: Deeply understands user needs through continuous engagement. Exceptional at identifying and articulating clear problem statements. Develops innovative solutions with strong product intuition and taste, thinking holistically about end-to-end user experience.
- Business Acumen: Understands how platform investments drive business outcomes. Articulates the ROI of technical investments in business terms and connects platform capabilities to Netflix's strategic priorities. Balances technical excellence with business pragmatism.
- Data Driven: Deeply analytical mindset that leverages quantitative and qualitative data to understand user behavior, validate assumptions, and inform product decisions. Builds a metrics-driven culture with clear success metrics to measure impact and drive continuous improvement.
- Decisive Leadership: Makes timely decisions that provide clear direction and reduce ambiguity without analysis paralysis. Shows conviction in product opinions while remaining open to new information. Removes decision bottlenecks and shields teams from unnecessary scope creep.
Collaboration & Influence
- First Team Player: Creates psychological safety through vulnerability and assuming best intentions. Values diverse perspectives and operates with a collaborative mindset where team success trumps individual accomplishments. Skilled at giving and receiving feedback with a growth mindset.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Builds strong relationships across organizational boundaries, grounded in mutual respect and shared goals. Navigates complex organizational dynamics to drive alignment. Adapts communication style to different audiences and contexts to maximize effectiveness.
- Influential Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and inspire. Great at rallying teams around a vision and motivating others to action.
Execution Excellence
- Delivery Focus: Builds reputation through consistent, high-quality delivery. Disciplined prioritization with clear timelines and accountability. Drives initiatives to completion rather than letting them linger. Comfortable making decisions with imperfect information and adjusting course as needed.
- Learning Mindset: Champions incremental learning and fast feedback loops with customers. Values progress over perfection and breaks down large initiatives into manageable increments that deliver value at each stage. Adapts quickly based on real-world user feedback.
More About Data Movement Platform @ Netflix
- Data Mesh — A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix
- Data Bridge: How Netflix simplifies data movement
- Self Hosting Kafka at Scale at Netflix
- Evolution of the Netflix Data Pipeline
- How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph — Part 1: Ingesting and Processing Data
- Bulldozer: Batch Data Moving from Data Warehouse to Online Key-Value Stores
- Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh
Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $440,000.00 - $725,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.
Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.
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Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.