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Netflix Director Product Developer Platform United States, California 223571824
28.03.2024
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Our Developer Platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services encompassing the entire software development lifecycle. These include:
Developer Foundations:
We optimize the inner development loop to keep developers in the flow, with development environments and tools like IDEs, source code management, repository management, project initialization, and CLIs.
Application Development:
We optimize application development by providing tools, frameworks, and libraries for specific personas and use cases (e.g., backend, frontend), including code authoring, build, test, and debug workflows, build systems, test frameworks, and more.
Continuous Integration & Delivery:
We ensure safe delivery of changes from commit to production with robust, seamless integration of changes, delivery workflows and pipelines, global deployment orchestration, safe delivery and rollbacks, and fleetwide change orchestration.
Reliability & Resiliency:
We ensure operational excellence and highly reliable, resilient, scalable systems with incident management and product readiness tools, testing frameworks, automation, reporting & insights, and product infrastructure experimentation (e.g., canaries, shadow traffic, performance testing, failure injection testing, chaos experiments, etc).
What You Will Do
- Deeply understand customer needs, product analytics, and industry innovation to drive the product vision and strategy for Developer Platform, maximizing business and customer impact
- Lead, mentor, inspire, and grow a high-performance team of technical product managers, developing strategies, roadmaps, and specifications that prioritize the most impactful opportunities
- Collaborate with senior management to align vision, strategy, success metrics, and roadmaps
- Foster a collaborative environment with Netflix engineers, creating continuous feedback loops to ensure we're solving the right problems and driving maximum impact for Netflix
- Stay informed about industry advancements, influence their direction, and conduct comprehensive buy vs. build analysis to align with state-of-the-art solutions, encouraging ROI-based decisions
- Foster a metrics-driven environment that encourages quality experimentation and sets high standards for measuring product success
- Exhibit robust problem-solving and decision-making skills, tackling both technical and strategic challenges in innovative ways, and leveraging both data and intuition to make strategic choices in the face of ambiguity and complexity
- Ensure thoughtful product evolution that addresses product lifecycle and adoption experience
- Help evolve Platform Engineering’s customer engagement model, communication strategy, and prioritization and planning practices
- Collaborate with other product leaders across Platform Engineering and Netflix to evolve our practices and competencies in technical product management
What We’re Looking For
- At least 5 years of experience managing a team of senior and staff technical product managers as a Director of Product, Group Product Manager, or similar role
- Proven track record of leading and scaling teams, managing and evolving a product portfolio, and driving product vision and strategy
- Deep technical knowledge paired with a customer-focused mindset and empathy.
- Experience working on developer platforms with a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and passion for developer experience and productivity
- Strategic thinker who can connect customer use cases to technology solutions and think holistically about end-to-end experience
- Ability to manage a portfolio of projects, balancing short-term goals with long-term vision in a rapidly changing environment
- Proficiency in using both qualitative and quantitative methods to define success, with a track record of making data-driven decisions
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to leverage product intuition and judgment to make informed decisions in scenarios where perfect information may not be available
- Insatiable curiosity, with a passion for learning new domains, keeping up with industry innovation, and constantly questioning the status quo
- Excellent communication skills with a knack for setting clear expectations
- Experience navigating and leading in a fast-paced, agile environment with rapidly shifting priorities
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 $430,000 - $1,500,000.
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