Product Manager - Mobile Personalization

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Member Experience Product Team: We want to invent entertainment experiences the world can’t live without, connecting people with stories they’ll love. The Member Experience Product Management team is accountable for making the core Netflix experience better every day for our members around the world. Our work spans all platforms (TV/living room, mobile, tablet, and web), and includes experiences and ranking/recommendations strategy across discovery/browse (shows, movies, live programming, and games), search, player, identity/profiles, and new surfaces.

Our team is hiring a Product Manager for Mobile personalization who will be responsible for vertical video and broader mobile algorithmic and genAI discovery and personalization. This role will include most of mobile personalization, excluding the search algorithms and experience. This PM ultimately must understand member needs and user values, while identifying opportunities where generative content & discovery may create new and innovative ways to reach members through our evolving mobile product approach.

You will craft and communicate a strategic roadmap - based on consumer insights and ecosystem trends - for the Netflix mobile app and see to its execution leading cross-functional teams of the industry’s best data scientists, consumer insights researchers, designers, machine learning and software engineers. As a thought leader, you will have the ability to shape our thinking on how to evolve our product, and have a massive impact on how members enjoy our service. 

This role is based in our Los Gatos (preferred) or Los Angeles office in a hybrid model, but we are open to remote candidates who are on the West Coast. Some travel to Los Gatos and Los Angeles will be required.

What we offer:

• The opportunity to have a huge impact. The products and features you will be working on are central to the product experience of hundreds of millions of people around the world.

• Responsibility. Netflix offers true transparency and autonomy. Our culture is unique and is key to how we innovate.

• Learning. You will be creating customer experiences and business models that have never been done before. You will have the opportunity to work with stunning colleagues who value collaboration and from whom you can learn.

Who will be successful in this role?

You combine a product background with a strong ability to guide both creative and technical partners in defining, explaining and executing your mobile strategy and vision. In order to be successful in this position, you need to be able to create a vision, strategy & roadmap (the “what” and the “why”) for your product space based on consumer insights. You’ll partner with a variety of cross-functional partners spanning design, engineering, data science and marketing/content teams to imagine how mobile experiences can engage members in new and innovative ways. You have demonstrated ability to build successful consumer-facing applications and algorithms, and a strong feel for the entertainment business. 

Skills:

• 8+ years of product management experience ideally working with algorithms, search, LLM/GenAI and consumer-facing products

• Strong technical acumen, ability to work deeply with eng and ability to translate technical complexities into simplified concepts 

• Demonstrated leadership experience and success in a large and highly cross-functional organization. Demonstrated leadership experience working effectively with designers, product marketers, engineers, data scientists, etc 

• Demonstrated ability to ship consumer mobile products that effectively align to broader cross-device/platform product roadmaps and goals

• Experience creating the vision & strategy for consumer products powered by machine learning (e.g. recommendation systems) with a proven record of prioritizing and successfully launching impactful products or platforms

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to present technical content to non-technical audiences

• Ability to partner with different functions to ensure that your solutions drive real business impact. Strategic thinking and ability to incorporate larger business context into algorithm and product development

• Proactive and growth mindset. You’re constantly looking for what will make the Netflix product better. 

• Passion and interest in TV/Movie/Games & entertainment culture a strong 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 $240,000 - $725,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.