Content Accountant jobs at Netflix in United States, Los Angeles

We want to delight our customers with a service that just works, always. This requires our engineers to have a truly full-stack understanding of the Netflix experience, from playback device architecture to the design and implementation of our B2B subscription APIs. You will be successful at this job if you have a strong foundation in software engineering, experience building complete systems, and enjoy clearly communicating complex concepts.

The job expectations are broad: one day, you will diagnose a playback issue detected on a device by reading system logs and comparing them to the source code, and another day, you will triage a partner's payment glitch by examining the behavior of REST API calls. The next day, you may be reviewing the high-level architecture of a partner's integration to provide design feedback.

What you will be doing:

• Work with partners to integrate, test, deploy, and improve the Netflix streaming application, content discovery, and billing integration over the entire device lifecycle using Netflix tools and data.

• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables over multiple partner engagements.

• Test partner devices, which include black-box testing using our in-house testing suite.

• Collaborate with our data analytics team to discover, triage, and resolve post-launch playback issues and payment services issues.

• Represent the needs and feedback of our partners with the product and engineering teams at headquarters in California.

• Recognize opportunities for improvement in process or tooling and implement changes to deliver the same or better quality with less effort.

• Build and maintain our engineering relationships with Netflix partners. Ability and willingness to travel to Netflix’s Los Gatos, CA headquarters and regular regional APAC partners when required.

What we are looking for:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical, or equivalent practical experience.

• At least 7 years of experience in one or more of C/C++, Java, Rust, or Go. Experience in SQL, Python, and JavaScript is a plus.

• Experience with streaming devices, or related applicable skills in embedded devices and other small systems.

• Experience with streaming device operating systems (Linux, Android) and middleware.

• Experience working with external partners or multiple internal stakeholders to implement complex systems.

• Experience with backend API (Rest/GraphQL) and B2B API technologies is highly valued.

• Demonstrated history of delivering on full development lifecycle and multiple successful releases.

• Ability and willingness to travel to Netflix’s Los Gatos, California headquarters, as well as regular regional APAC partners when required.

• English proficiency is required. Additional language proficiency is highly valued, especially in Japanese or Korean.

• Common Languages and Tools: Java & other JVM languages, Gradle, Nebula, Spring Boot, JUnit, GraphQL, Kafka, PostgreSQL.

• Implement and manage build solutions that enhance the efficiency and reliability of software delivery.

• Develop and maintain backwards-compatible tools for dependency management and analysis.

• Integrate internal and vendor-provided build and test infrastructure into engineering workflows, focusing on reliability and ease of use.

• Design and develop tools and infrastructure to automatically detect, quarantine, and reproduce flaky tests.

• Create and maintain tools for analysis of distributed tracing tools for test runs.

• Develop and integrate software solutions that provide high-quality synthetic test data generated from captured production traffic and API schema registries.

• Correlate test coverage data with code changes, runtime execution, and trace data for comprehensive reporting.

• Maintain a strong focus on scalability, usability, and reliability in platform design to support a growing cohort of engineers.

• Be willing and able to showcase our team’s offerings to internal audiences

• Consult with other teams about how to best collaborate, integrate, and/or set up solutions for their needs

• Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure Netflix remains at the forefront of build, dependency management, and testing infrastructure.

• A skilled software engineer with experience in developer platform or productivity teams.

• A meticulous software designer who researches and documents technical tradeoffs clearly and concisely.

• A self-motivated and organized individual who can independently drive engineering-wide solutions.

• A proactive communicator who engages effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• An advocate for strong build, dependency management, and testing practices, with familiarity in popular build tools, test frameworks, code coverage tools, continuous integration systems, and post-deployment verification methods (a healthy contempt for flaky tests is a plus).

• You have shipped and maintained Java code in production.

• You have worked on various technology stacks and are familiar with a variety of ways that software could be designed for different optimizations.

• You have designed and implemented build and dependency management solutions.

• You have built (and tested) custom Gradle plugins.

• You have assembled JVM Spring Boot applications using Gradle.

• You have experience with Nebula, Gradle, Maven, etc, for dependency management.

• You have experience with using and explaining Develocity dashboards.

• You are comfortable working with Zipkin or similar tools in the tracing space.

• You have implemented advanced log, metric, or error stacktrace analysis.

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

The Role

This role can be based in our Los Angeles or Los Gatos offices. There is also the option to be based remotely from the West Coast/PST working hours. Some travel will be required if remote-based.

As a Product Manager at Netflix, you will:

• Build strategic roadmaps and take product concepts from idea through validation, delivery, measurement, and iteration

• Author strategy memos and presentations, representing your team's work across the organization and to senior leadership

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

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

• Deeply understand and socialize the evolving needs of our customers

As theProduct Manager, Content Security, you will:

• Partner with stakeholders to develop policies for end user access to sensitive data and assets and ensure these are implemented holistically across our ecosystem of B2B products

• Partner cross-functionally to define and develop secure, scalable approaches for the external workforce to download and deliver pre-release media assets

• Lead the rollout of new features to improve end user account security (such as multi-factor authentication/MFA) while partnering with internal teams to manage operational change

• Create and operationalize a suite of content security risk metrics to help monitor for risk and identify new opportunities for mitigation

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Product Management experience with proven success building and scaling technical platforms

• Ability to inspire and lead cross-functional teams - your relationship-building skills are critical to success

• Experience partnering with business stakeholders and leading through operational change to drive internal product adoption

• Excellent communication skills - you'll need to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences

• Experience using data to inform priorities and evaluate impact of initiatives

• Direct experience building data security and/or access management products

• Experience with entertainment/media industry content security is a plus

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.

In This Role, You Will:

• Develop, lead, and execute an insights program that will build a strong understanding of consumer and fan needs in sports & sports entertainment today - in order to inform a variety of business decisions across programming, content development, communications strategy, and member experience.

• Drive understanding of how Sports content complements and enhances our primary TV and movie programming, and identify opportunities for growth.

• Own the partner relationship with Content & Marketing executives who focus on live sports, establishing a trusted, consultative partnership.

• Develop innovative approaches & establish best practices for sports research.

• Socialize your research and findings throughout the company, acting as the primary voice for sports insights.

• Partner closely with other CI researchers (especially UX and regional), data scientists, analysts, and strategists to identify business needs and build holistic narratives to drive the business forward.

About You

• At least 7+ years of hands-on, mixed-methods research experience.

• A passionate fan of sports & entertainment!

• A sports audience expert with a comprehensive understanding of the industry, including trends, audience & fan behaviors, and competitive landscape.

• Experience in designing, planning, executing, and socializing research projects end-to-end.

• An analytical mindset; you love digging into data for hidden connections and patterns, and know how to balance analytical rigor with pragmatism and actionability.

• A phenomenal communicator; strong storytelling skills with experience turning data into insights and socializing across different departments (from content/creative to data scientist to high-level executive).

• An excellent collaborator; able to build strong relationships both within your team and with business partners.

• Independent thinker who likes taking initiative and approaches problem-solving with an innovative mindset; you focus on long-term solutions and making an impact at scale.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and thinking through multiple perspectives; stays grounded in the face of change.

• A master of prioritization and time management, both the big picture and in terms of your own time.

Experience with the following is a bonus, but not required

• Entertainment research experience (e.g., TV, film, streaming, short form, gaming), particularly with other types of live or interactive programming.

• International research experience.

• Advanced degree in research, social sciences, statistics, or related field.

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 $130,000-$470,000.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the product team to identify member needs and help shape the long-term vision for Netflix’s member experience innovations, including the future of TV and our investment in new content experiences.

• Develop the positioning statement for key product launches. What is the value we are offering to the customer? How do we stack up to competitor capabilities? How does this launch tie back to our brand differentiators?

• Build marketing strategy for launches. Pull together business goals, technical considerations, and expertise of the marketing teams to align on audiences to target, channels to employ, countries to activate, etc.

• Navigate complex cross-functional environments to ensure alignment and connectivity. Work across teams to align on product or feature naming, information architecture, and brand architecture.

• Assess upcoming product and feature launches to identify bigger stories or position multiple launches in a clear way for consumers and tie those launches back to the broader Netflix value proposition.

• Work with product and comms partners to clearly define marketing needs and coordinate various parts of the marketing organization to execute against those needs (e.g. brand design, organic social, paid social, partner marketing, etc).

• Partner with content design to ensure coherent and consistent language and narrative between in-service and off-service messaging.

• Communicate effectively with leadership, facilitating complex ideas in compelling and clear ways.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in Marketing or related fields with an emphasis on product marketing or consumer marketing.

• Preferred B2C and/or entertainment industry product marketing experience.

• Strong interpersonal skills and communication capabilities with the ability to work across both highly technical and highly creative teams.

• Strong project management skills.

• Experience and success in managing cross-functional teams to bring products and features to market.

• Experience in developing consumer messaging, positioning, and targeting, and in handling multi-country product launches.

• High tolerance for change, and the capacity to accomplish enormous amounts of work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

• High-level understanding of product growth and developing strategic roadmaps.

• Demonstrated ability to create detailed and actionable Product Briefs.

• Respect, understanding and enthusiasm for Netflix culture.

What you will do in this role:

• Oversee and evolve a suite of content forecasting models to help us understand how our, and our competitors' content is likely to perform over time.

• Understand the interactions between content and various signals of social buzz on the value of Netflix’s catalog.

• Work closely with partner teams to develop usable decision frameworks that leverage these insights to make our content slate better over time

• Hire, inspire, and grow high-performing team members

• Lead innovation at Netflix by leveraging the right state-of-the-art methods in machine learning and statistical inference to solve business problems

This role is for you if:

• You have a proven track record of applying machine learning with industrial scale data

• You excel at thinking through a business problem and solving it by leveraging data, you can then translate those solutions into compelling narratives to help drive adoption.

• You are flexible and able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment – you build teams who can do the same. You embrace risk and are willing to make hard calls and pivot as needed.

• You have deep technical expertise in a variety of modelling approaches including time series, observational causal inference, reinforcement learning and forecasting approaches. This expertise is coupled with the ability to examine tradeoffs amongst potential solutions in order to optimize outcomes for the business. You know how to use a complicated model, but you also know when a linear regression is best.

• You enjoy connecting the dots across a variety of groups and problems, and you enjoy fostering collaborative relationships as much as you enjoy driving deep technical solutions.

• You have a PhD/MS degree in a quantitative field like Operations Research, Economics, or Computer Science and have 10 years of industry experience with at least 3 years of managerial experience.

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 $480,000 - $1,200,000.

• Fundamentals of Accounting—We'd like you to have 3+ years of relevant accounting experience backed by a bachelor's degree in accounting and/or finance; a CPA license is preferred.

• Attention to detail and love for data—We pride ourselves on producing high-quality work, scrutinizing important numbers and formulas for accuracy, and using spreadsheets and system data to reconcile accounts and solve problems; we like our accountants to love Excel pivot tables and be unphased by large data sets.

• Enthusiasm and quick learning - Enthusiasm for designing and building new accounting systems and making improvements to existing systems. Prior work with contract review (revenue, leases, or other complex documents), data entry and analysis, research, and other problem-solving tasks is helpful, but we understand you probably have never done content accounting. That's OK with us because we'll teach you as long as you're excited about learning.

• Curiosity and passion—Our team members ask probing questions, challenge the status quo, make changes to improve processes, and have fun while doing it all; a positive attitude and never settling for “good enough” is key.

• Industry experience is not essential to the position if you are enthusiastic about the position, have a strong accounting background, and are capable of learning quickly.

• Adaptable—You must be comfortable with an ever-changing ecosystem of content, finance, and accounting issues and projects.

• You embrace and advocate the Netflixand our

• Set up (in proprietary contract management system) and accounting of content license contracts, with a focus on license fee uploads and payment term assignments.

• Perform monthly close tasks (such as accrual analyses and reconciliations).

• Review and prepare documentation of content license agreements, which includes interpreting contractual terms and understanding the application of our accounting policies.

• Account for owned content and work with business partners to understand the full cost of produced shows.

• Drive process improvements and contribute to exciting projects.

• Cross-functional interaction with teams outside of Content Accounting, including those across finance and content acquisition organizations.

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 $50,000 - $240,000.