Netflix Senior Design Manager Games Platform 

United States, California 

816776719

The Role

As the design leader for Games Platform, you’ll partner closely with engineering, product management, consumer insights, and game studios to shape the future of our developer-facing services. You’ll lead a team of high-performing designers, foster a strong product and systems design culture, and ensure we’re delivering best-in-class services that are both deeply technical and intuitive for both game developers and members.

What You Will Do

• Lead and Scale a High-Impact Team: Coach and mentor a team of senior product designers working across games platform and services, fostering a strong team culture focused on craft, impact, and inclusion.

• Shape Product Direction: Partner with product, engineering, consumer insights, and developer experience leadership to define the near- and medium-term strategy for games platform design.

• Drive End-to-End Design for Services & SDKs: Oversee the design of tools and infrastructure that power game development, distribution, and operations on Netflix—from player identity systems to game launch frameworks.

• Design for Developers, Impact Members: Champion intuitive, developer-friendly experiences that make building on Netflix easier—while ensuring those systems result in smooth, delightful member gameplay across the library.

• Make Quality Decisions That Scale: Set the direction for the team by balancing speed, craft, and business impact; model how to make confident decisions in ambiguous spaces.

• Champion Inclusive, Strategic Design

What We’re Looking For

• Proven Leadership Experience: 12+ years of design experience, including 6+ years managing high-performing product design teams in technical domains.

• Domain Expertise: Experience designing game platforms, developer platforms, SDKs, or services for technical audiences (e.g. game services, game dev tools, infrastructure UX, platform APIs), and consumers at scale.

• Strong Product Thinking: Ability to synthesize technical requirements, user needs, and business priorities to shape the overall games platform design strategy.

• Systems Design Fluency: You think in terms of systems, frameworks, and interfaces, and bring a rigorous approach to designing at scale.

• Business and Team Impact: Demonstrated ability to make timely, high-quality decisions that advance both product goals and team growth.

• Collaborative and Context-Driven: Comfort navigating ambiguity, guiding teams through trade-offs, and cascading context clearly across functions.

• Strong Communication & Influence: Able to articulate design rationale to partners, advocate for design strategy, and cultivate strong relationships with XFN stakeholders.

Even Better If You Have…

• Experience working with or adjacent to game development teams or tools.

• Familiarity with live service games, backend systems, or content operations.

• A background in infrastructure, dev tools, or B2B product design.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Shaping the Future: You’ll help define what a world-class game platform looks like for Netflix—and the industry.

• Designing for Designers & Developers: You’ll work on challenging, meaningful problems that unlock creativity in others.

• Collaborative Culture: Join a highly talented, kind, and curious team that believes great ideas can come from anywhere.

• Room to Grow: We invest in our leaders—through mentorship, feedback, and opportunities to stretch.

• High Autonomy, High Trust: You’ll have the freedom to chart your team’s path, with the support to execute boldly.

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