Technical Program Manager - Hawkins Design System

Netflix Netflix · Big Tech · United States · Remote · Program Management

Technical Program Manager to drive large, cross-team programs for Netflix's design system (Hawkins), focusing on planning, execution, and cross-functional alignment across design and engineering. The role involves navigating technical and organizational complexity, coordinating platform adoption, and bringing clarity to ambiguity. Experience with GenAI tools to scale impact is a plus, and familiarity with design-to-code workflows is beneficial.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive large, cross-team programs across Hawkins ecosystem end-to-end: define scope, milestones, and sequencing; keep us honest on commitments; and adjust quickly as we learn.
  2. Navigate technical and organizational complexity across design, client, and server engineering, ensuring the right people are in the room and decisions are pragmatic, not perfect.
  3. Coordinate platform adoption across multiple client surfaces (TV, mobile, web).
  4. Bring clarity to ambiguity: create lightweight structure, clear communication, and simple mechanisms without over-engineering process or slowing teams down.
  5. Build alignment and strong relationships with partners across Design Platform, Engineering, Experience Design, and Product Management.

Skills

Required

  • 6-8+ years of technical program leadership
  • driving multi-team programs in large, complex engineering organizations
  • significant experience on platform, framework, or client/UI engineering programs
  • Able to engage on technical trade-offs without writing code
  • communicate naturally across audiences from ICs to senior leadership in Engineering, Design and Product
  • Takes full ownership of outcomes
  • relentlessly drives execution
  • clarity and relationships rather than process or reporting structure

Nice to have

  • Experience with client/UI engineering
  • design systems
  • platform/framework development
  • strong feel for developer and designer experience
  • Equally comfortable getting into technical details and setting direction within your area
  • clear-eyed about what the moment calls for
  • Experience leveraging GenAI tools to scale your impact
  • genuine curiosity about how these tools are reshaping the way technical programs run
  • Familiarity with cross-platform delivery (TV, mobile, web)
  • design-to-code workflows

What the JD emphasized

  • drive large, cross-team programs
  • technical program leadership
  • multi-team programs
  • platform, framework, or client/UI engineering programs
  • Experience leveraging GenAI tools to scale your impact