דרושים Senior Technical Sound Designer Games Studio Blue ב-Netflix ב-United States, Oregon

• Partner closely with multi-disciplinary team members - Product Design, Content Design, Product Management, Engineering, Research, Operations, and others – to take the business to the next level;

• Work across all stages of the design process (user research, ideation, concept development, validation, workflow diagramming, prototyping, final visual design, and implementation support);

• Deeply understand users and their needs, including generative user research and exploration;

• Create beautiful, emotionally compelling, pixel-perfect mockups and prototypes of the end-to-end user experience;

• Conduct usability testing and iterate on designs with users;

• Partner with PMs to craft systematic solutions that connect the dots between user needs, data, business goals, and business strategy;

• Partner with engineers to build impactful products and features within the constraints of our technology and timeline;

• Facilitate collaborative work sessions with all levels of company stakeholders;

• Advance the discipline of product design within the organization and with partners and clients.

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise software product design;

• Track record of designing and shipping enterprise experiences that have scaled to thousands of usersand had successful outcomes for global users and the business; Ideally in the areas of GenAI or Creative Tooling

• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and articulate a vision;

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, and drive clarity that brings the user, technology, and business together into an actionable roadmap;

• Experience connecting the dots across the organization with other related initiatives across the company while driving collaboration;

• Exceptional communication skills, in writing and verbally, whether in small group discussions, large-scale presentations, or with executives;

• Extraordinary thoughtfulness and craft in interaction design, visual design, and prototyping;

• Humble, collaborative approach to partnering with PMs, engineers, and business stakeholders to find the best solution together;

• Mastery of Figma’s advanced features such as Autolayout, Variables, DevMode, Responsive Prototypes, etc;

• Experience collaborating with machine learning and data science teams to influence algo design from a user-centered lens

• Experience working with off-shore development teams and a point of view on how best to collaborate with them.

• At Netflix, all roles are expected to exemplify the

• An outstanding portfolio, showcasing your strengths in visual design craft, interaction design logic, and the rationale behind your design decisions;

• Effective English verbal/written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to successfully articulate design concepts to your team and senior stakeholders;

• Strong ability to think technically and collaborate seamlessly with engineers and data scientists as it pertains to understanding the benefits, possibilities, and constraints of common coding languages and machine learning platforms;

• Effective time management skills to balance project schedule with fast-paced deadlines;

• Strong conceptual thinking that balances user needs, business goals, and feasibility;

Pay Transparency

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.

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

The Technology Research Group is on a mission to

As the Technology Research Group Senior Design Technologist, you will identify and propose solutions for a diverse set of challenges across the company and act as a cross-functional bridge within Games Experience Engineering and outside stakeholders and partners. At times, you will drive design implementation for new prototypes using experimental tech stacks, including actively scripting (throw-away prototype code). In other cases, you give the appropriate support, collaboration, ideation, and feedback to the designated design leader of a project so they can communicate the value-add to leadership.

• Be a part of Technology Research Group staff to help shape organizational, partner, and technical strategy.

• Design and create prototypes that serve as a proof of concept for technical research. These prototypes need to be the communication piece that explains the member’s user experience interfacing with the experimental tech stack.

• Invent new UX paradigms that will help drive innovation across the organization.

• Partner with Product, XD, Internal Games, External Games, and Games Experience Engineering to advocate for significant technical design investments that will set us up for success for years to come.

• Dive deep and understand problems across the significant investments within Netflix Games, from the internal studios, transmedia, external studios, product, and engineering teams.

• Product-minded IC that ensures technical design direction is compatible with product and content direction and vice versa.

• Collaborate with ICs in other organizations (Content, Transmedia, Product, XD, Data & Insights, Internal Game Studios) to advocate for holistic solutions to balance Gaming and Netflix concerns.

You may be a good match for this role if you;

• At least 10 years of game development experience with projects shipped utilizing R&D outcomes.

• Convey complex design concepts to stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.

• Can work with senior leadership to develop a long-term technical strategy and map business goals to appropriate design investments.

• Have a proven track record in designing, building, and operating experimental systems that highlight and communicate the cool factor of sometimes esoteric technical stacks.

• Experience working with cloud gaming platforms and WebRTC technologies.

• Comfortable working in Unreal Engine, Unity3D, & Defold game engines. Preferably with shipped commercial projects.

• Comfortable working across multiple gaming platforms, including web, mobile, and console. Bonus points if you have experience working with custom hardware experiences.

• Deep experience working in prototype hardware environments, including controllers and nonstandard controller UX.

• You have deep technical art skills, visual effects, UI, UX, (C#, JS, UE C++.Blueprints).

• Are comfortable with ambiguous and fast-paced technical environments that require prototyping, experimenting, and iterating (including throwing away code) to get to product market fit.

• Can rapidly design, document, and implement new UI/UX schemas.

• You are deeply technical with success in setting the design direction for engineering projects, making strategic design decisions, and influencing cross-functional teams.

• Are strongly motivated to learn new domains and expand your current scope.

• Are curious about discovering innovative ways to solve problems.

• Are self-driven and highly motivated to deliver critical-tiered solutions.

• Are passionate about guiding, managing, and mentoring stunning colleagues.

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 $100,000 - $720,000.

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

The Role

In this role, you will manage UI projects across a large range of Netflix consumer offerings from Live to Streaming to Games. You will collaborate closely with Localization Program Managers, Product & Engineering, Content Designers as well as different functions within the Globalization team. You will manage the localization schedules, risks and quality control measures, all in service of successfully launching new Netflix experiences globally.

Responsibilities:

• Manage end to end localization projects including risk mitigation and change management

• Drive tooling updates, integrations and migrations with engineering teams

• Partner cross-functionally with Netflix stakeholders to identify critical business blockers and collaborate to solve and optimize these

• Thrive in a fast paced, ambiguous environment

• Able to multitask and pivot quickly

• Gather and provide project context to drive high quality output from localization vendors and freelancers

• Oversee the localization metrics for your projects including adherence to budgets, deadlines and quality thresholds

• Run project kick offs and meetings with cross-functional groups to ensure alignment

• Partner and train vendors, translators and reviewers

• Evangelize Globalization with stakeholders and its unique role at Netflix

• Support data-driven innovation initiatives such as AB Testing

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's, or Master’s degree, in Localization, Language Studies, or International Studies

• 5+ years of prior localization project management experience, working on projects that involve language launches, software, and/or creative content localization

• Ability to lead large scale technical, and cross functional projects to delivery

• Working knowledge of industry standard localization tools and best practices

• Strong analytical problem-solving skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Biased to action with an emphasis on good judgment

• Strong attention to detail

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 $70,000 - $370,000.

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

• 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 is based in Warsaw and can be worked remotely. Since this role supports both US/Canada and local Poland teams,the required working hours are 12pm to 8pm local time

What you’ll need to be successful:

• A minimum of 5 years of professional support or engineering experience, particularly in Big data technologies including and not limited to Spark, Trino, Druid, Iceberg, Hadoop framework, Kafka and Flink.

• Prior experience supporting platforms built using open source technologies such as Apache Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop.

• You have worked with big data warehouse storage systems (e.g. Iceberg)

• You have at least 1 year of experience in providing technical support for Kafka clusters or other pub/sub systems like Google Cloud Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, etc.

• Ability to read and write SQL queries to pull required complex data to support any reported issues/product defects

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and/or container orchestration platform is a plus

• You have the desire and aptitude to learn how the pieces of the big data platform work together .

• Ability to adapt to new tools and technologies quickly, and a willingness to continuously learn and grow in the field of big data and data movement.

• You are a data-driven and evidence-based decision-maker

• You are proficient in at least one programming language, ideally Python and/or Java, enabling you to contribute to codebases across related domains

• Experience in developing tools and scripts to automate processes and improve efficiency, with a strong focus on continuous improvement.

• Demonstrated ability to provide superior customer support across a complex organization, with a focus on enhancing the customer experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an appreciation for the importance of comprehensive documentation.

• Strong collaboration skills and experience working with cross-functional teams.

• Passion for creating technical documentation and tutorials, with a deep understanding of what makes an effective knowledge base.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a dynamic environment

• Knack for providing proactive feedback during early development stages of a product offering based on subject matter expertise and user sentiment.

Other attributes that will excite us:

• Experience building GenAI solutions for Support is a big plus

• Experience building and maintaining mature support infrastructure

Role Overview:

You will focus on defining, delivering, and supporting technology solutions for our Compensation and Talent Management functions, while supporting the broader team’s portfolio. Your impact will be on enabling scale, increasing operational efficiencies, and elevating the employee experience for a multi-faceted workforce. In this role, you will work closely with HR and other Engineering leaders to translate business needs into effective technical designs and solutions. You will role-model the standards for Engineering and Program Management excellence, through rigorous application of SDLC principles, scalable tech design, consistent documentation, and effective operations.

You excel in both strategic thinking and elevating planning and delivery practices. You will lead a diverse team of solution specialists and software engineers, constantly seeking to identify, develop, and leverage expertise in others to reach solutions. In this role, you will navigate many different program areas with ease, drawing from experience to influence decisions, accelerate outcomes, proactively propose business-focused solutions, and anticipate risks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership:develop a high-performing team to deliver innovative solutions in Compensation and Talent Management/Development, aligning with the overall product vision and strategy to improve organizational effectiveness and performance.

• Technical leadership:stay current with technology trends, serve as a credible advisor, and leverage your extensive experience with leading HR platforms to drive end-to-end initiatives in support of business goals and user needs.

• Cross-functional delivery:partner with TTE workstream leads and stakeholders to execute strategic initiatives, resolve issues, and drive improvements to the employee experience.

• Operational Excellence:enhance the team's operational effectiveness by instilling rigor, managing operations, implementing scalable solutions, ensuring documentation, and streamlining processes for continuous improvement.

• Stakeholder Engagement:act as a trusted advisor, proactively translating complex/ambiguous business needs into actionable strategies and solutions.

• Innovation and Growth:foster a culture of innovation, make thoughtful and timely data-informed decisions, and act as a credible technical advisor.

• Strategic Support:

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 10-15 years of domain experiencein HRIS, HR Tech, or a related field (consulting experience focused on HR Transformation). Best practice knowledge of the Hire to Retire processes, with system configuration and/or development experience.

• Leadership experience:5-7 years in people manager roles in the HR Technology field, building high-performing, inclusive teams; demonstrated ability to set clear expectations, to drive accountability and performance through coaching and mentoring; skilled at leading business analysts, program managers, solution and software engineers in highly cross-functional and collaborative environments.

• Technical acumen:multi-implementation experience with leading HR systems (e.g. , Workday HCM, SuccessFactors, Oracle, Cornerstone, Eightfold), strong analytical skills, and a deep understanding of software development approaches, architecture, and lifecycles.

• Program/Project Management:experience with Agile methodologies is highly desired. Strong project management skills with the ability to lead and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Collaborative problem-solver:skilled in addressing complex issues and engaging stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions. Organized and detail-oriented, with a passion for data analysis and empowering others to achieve project objectives.

• Adaptable and resilient: ability to thrive in a rapidly evolving environment, prioritize strategically, and pivot if required to deliver business value.

• Communication skills:demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively with stakeholders at all levels, translating technical solutions into accessible narratives.

• Global perspective:experience in a global organization, demonstrating flexibility to meet changing business needs.

• Integrity and ethics:

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 $190,000 - $920,000.

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

What you’ll do:

• Establish the fundamental set of quality of experience metrics used to evaluate our Cloud Games sessions, which is likely to include research and development of several new metrics.
• Become the resident expert on all things Cloud Games Quality of Experience, partnering closely with Games Engineering and Games Studio teams to drive a culture of data-informed decision-making about our games title portfolio and the games platform infrastructure.
• Develop deep expertise in how the Cloud Games infrastructure works, and understand how data, analytics, experimentation, and algorithms can play an impactful role in driving improvements to its performance.
• Use a combination of experiment and observational data to understand the Netflix member perspective on their gaming experiences. Help us understand the Netflix member perspective on their experiences.
• Translate valuable insights and data from this domain to initiatives in other parts of the business.

You have:

• Advanced training in a quantitative field (Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Economics, etc) or commensurate work experience.
• Fluent in SQL. Comfortable prototyping pipelines of moderate complexity, with the ability to effectively partner with data engineering teams building more scalable solutions for important use cases
• Strong Quantitative Programming skills in Python, R experience a plus
• Passion for instrumenting and analyzing products to drive improvements to user experience, backed by strong product knowledge and intuition - ideally utilized in consumer/user interface settings or internally serving technical audiences such as engineers.
• Demonstrated effectiveness at developing meaningful stakeholder relationships and deep domain expertise.
• The demonstrated ability to communicate technical and statistical concepts clearly and concisely among audiences at many different levels.
• Comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to thrive with minimal oversight and process.
• Embodied the Netflix values while bringing a new perspective to continue improving our culture.

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 $170,000 - $720,000.

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