Product Manager, Personalization Foundations

Product Manager, Personalization Foundations

Los Gatos, California, United States of America

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.

Location: This role is based in our Los Gatos office (preferred) in a hybrid model, but we are open to remote candidates on the West Coast with some travel to Los Gatos required.

Team Overview: At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world with a diverse set of content offerings and a world-class product experience that connects the right content with our audience of over 700M people around the world.

The Member Discovery Foundations team plays a crucial role in this mission by providing the centralized vision, strategy, and delivery of foundational capabilities that enable and scale across discovery use cases that are critical for how members find content they'll love.

Role Overview: We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead our Personalization Foundations work. As Netflix has evolved from offering TV shows and Movies to including Games, Live events, and other content types, our systems and personalization algorithms need to become more flexible so we can provide the best experience across all content types.

Your focus will be on partnering closely with internal customers and stakeholders, including Product Management and Merchandising teams, to define and execute on the product strategy for foundational capabilities across our systems. Additionally, you'll work on scalable personalization algorithm components to enable seamless merchandising and personalization across our growing catalog of diverse content types.

What We Offer: As a PM at Netflix, you will:

• Make a meaningful contribution.
• Take on big responsibility.
• Be expected to learn every day.
• Contribute to and benefit from an environment where you can grow your career.

Who Will Be Successful in This Role? To be successful in this position, you will partner with world-class teams across engineering and data science, flexing both your analytical acumen and ability to use your intuition to empathize with internal product customers.

The following attributes are highly valued on the PM team:

• Ability to develop a long-term vision for personalization foundations while executing on immediate priorities.
• Comfort with complex systems and understanding how they interact to create scalable solutions.
• Skill in gathering requirements across teams and synthesizing them into coherent capability roadmaps.
• Excellence in using data to inform product decisions while balancing technical constraints and business goals.
• Ability to synthesize the complex into the simple and persuasive, and tell compelling stories with data.
• Strike a good balance between being collaborative and open to alternative views vs. decisive and clear communicating the vision for the team.
• Comfort advocating for a path forward among ambiguous options.
• An eagerness to seek feedback and improve.

Skills and Experience:

• Experience building scalable product capabilities across backend systems and ML algorithms.
• Proven record of successfully launching and building foundational product systems.
• Demonstrated success in driving cross-functional initiatives.
• Proven ability to map algorithmic solutions to foundational product problems.
• Demonstrated leadership working effectively with engineers, ML researchers, and data scientists.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Very high attention to detail.
• Experience with A/A and A/B testing.

We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and better products for our customers.

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.

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