Primary responsibilities:- Collaborate with various organizational departments to drive the execution of Messaging initiatives across Netflix.
- Stakeholder management across engineering teams, to executive stakeholders between technical and non-technical roles
- Leverage the insights and experience from this work to influence the improvement of underlying technologies, architectures, and operations.
- Apply strong technical, organizational, and communication skills to devise sound technical approaches to abstract goals.
- Identify the systems involved to build new solutions, align roadmaps, and weigh relative priorities.
- Establish an overall plan for numerous teams to evolve the playback ecosystem
- Identifying and mitigating technical risks.
- You are a strong communicator with exceptional listening skills. You can operate independently, challenge the status quo, and always play for the larger team.
What sets you apart?- A passion for driving toward clarity and simplicity.
- Always thinking about the quality of experience implications of the team’s work.
- You are a thought partner to your platform and backend stakeholders.
- You balance competing concerns and make tough calls on where to cut scope vs. invest more, and how to make resourcing trade-offs across different domains.
- As comfortable speaking technically as non-technically and able to bridge between the two.
- 8+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, software engineering, or leading software development projects.
Desired Technical Skills- Systems design, and architecture experience.
- Ability to identify gaps in solutions, debate technical approaches, and see various perspectives.
- Able to provide insights into business, product, and technology tradeoffs.
- Great at adapting solutions to meet short and longer-term needs.
- Expertise in low-latency streaming, hardware, and infrastructure.
Desired Project Management Skills- Can devise and apply various approaches to the execution of complex initiatives.
- Coordination across many independent tracks of work and organizations.
- Risk identification and mitigation.
- Can balance strategic and tactical efforts to make tough calls and communicate the decision framework.
- Detail-oriented, can identify what’s missing in planning and execution of software development, testing, and launch.
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 $240,000 - $725,000.