Product Manager, Content Promotion and Distribution, Media Understanding & Merchandising

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

As we grow globally, we have increasing opportunities to entertain and delight our members in new ways. As a Product Manager in Media Understanding & Merchandising, you will create technology that enables our partners to classify content and games and curate discovery experiences at scale. 

This role sits within the Content Promotion and Distribution organization which is at the intersection of the consumer experience and Netflix Studio. Our team is integral to making the Netflix experience feel personal and relevant by developing innovative approaches to how we promote, localize, and distribute content. Because our products impact both consumers and content creators, we seek someone who can fluidly move among both worlds, applying strong product principles and strategic frameworks, while deeply empathizing with the art and craft required to create great content. 

As a product manager at Netflix, you will:

• Build a strategic roadmap and take product concepts from idea through validation, shipping, measurement, and iteration.

• Author strategy memos and presentations and represent your team’s work to senior executives.

• Lead a team of stunning colleagues across design, engineering, and data science to deliver outstanding products to our customers. 

• Build business cases and measure the impact of your product innovation.

• Work alongside your design partners to deeply understand and socialize the evolving needs of our customers.

• Operate with true transparency and autonomy while consistently seeking feedback and input from partners to drive successful product outcomes. Our culture is unique and is key to how we innovate.

The Role

We are looking for a Product Manager to advance our portfolio of products and services that help our members discover and choose from a world of entertainment choices. This includes underlying data services and taxonomies that power how we classify content and games, algorithmic solutions that accelerate how we editorialize and rate our catalog, in addition to applications that help curate the discovery experiences that engage our members. 

This will be a remote-friendly role and would be best for candidates located in the eastern time zone, as this role will navigate relationships with global stakeholders and engineering teams. Bi-monthly in-person travel may be necessary to collaborate with stakeholders and partners across the US, with occasional EMEA travel. That said, we can always make exceptions in location for the right candidate.

As a Product Manager in Merchandising & Content Understanding, you will be responsible for:

• Driving initiatives across our editorial creative portfolio of products that classify and curate content at scale

• Partnering with our Product Metadata and Ratings (PMR) partner teams who are responsible for the metadata we apply to titles driving discovery experiences, ratings, and informing how we promote our titles to:

  • Improve how Netflix applies editorial and caution metadata to our titles and assets, driving quality and impact measurement

  • Innovating on our operational tagging workflows, including design and integration of AI-first solutions to drive scale, quality, and accuracy

• Partnering with our Merchandising team who are responsible for curating collections of titles to drive effective discovery and choosing

Our wish list for the person in this role (remember, no one ever gets everything on their wish list!):

• 5+ years of Product Management experience with a proven record of prioritizing and successfully launching products or platforms

• Ability to inspire, motivate and lead a cross-functional team - your ability to build strong relationships is critical to success

• Demonstrated experience partnering effectively with data science teams to develop, validate, and utilize metrics and analysis to inform priorities, influence business decisions, and evaluate impact of initiatives

• Excellent communication skills; timely communication with clear expectations whether in written documents, small group discussions, large-scale presentations, or to executives. 

• An ideal candidate is a highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently and drive alignment amid ambiguity. 

• Embodies the Netflix values while also bringing a new perspective to improve our culture. We strongly believe that diversity of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and better products for our customers. 

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 $120,000 - $515,000.

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 detail about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.