Staff Product Designer, Ads Platform

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next.

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The Role

We recently launched a new ad-supported tier to offer our members more choice in how they consume their content. Our new tier allows us to attract new members at a lower price point, while also creating a compelling path for advertisers to reach audiences that are deeply immersed.

To help us deliver this compelling experience, we’re looking for a highly ambitious, visionary, and experienced Staff Product Designer who will help enable our global Ad tech suite – solidifying Netflix as the premier destination for brands to reach a premium, highly engaged audience. Additionally, you will enable an emerging era of CTV advertising innovation – developing systems that optimize ad performance and engagement.

Your work will also be essential to delivering a delightful, engaging, and highly relevant Ads experience for our Netflix members.

This will be a hybrid role, with a flexible work-from-home schedule. However, onsite attendance will be required as needed by the business - as often as weekly. This role would be best for candidates located in California or in the Pacific time zone, as monthly in-person travel will be required to collaborate with stakeholders and partners in Los Angeles, CA and Los Gatos, CA. That said, we can always make exceptions in location for the right candidate - with flexibility to accommodate candidates at Netflix’s New York City hub.

About Our Team

Our Ads Experience Design team designs the experience, technology, workflows, and capabilities that power Netflix’s advertising business. The Ads Platform Design team designs the tools, features, applications and flows for end-to-end ads lifecycle.  Our Ads Platform is comprehensive, best-in-class and rapidly growing, thus enabling highly performant and optimal advertiser-centric experiences. 

Our team’s primary superpower is the ability to design creatively and collaboratively in highly complex environments – from core services that power Netflix’s streaming technology to industry-leading partnership platforms.

You’ll be one of the staff designers who designs the ads workflows and core capabilities that power Netflix’s advertiser experience. More specifically, you’ll be a critical part of one of the most talented and trailblazing advertising design teams in the world.

Why You’ll Love Our Team

• We’re big on individual responsibility and smart on process.

• Work with stunning, supportive designers on problems that matter.

• Flexibility to balance work-from-home and in-office work, so long as you’re able to be onsite for meaningful moments of collaboration.

• Freedom and flexibility to craft your own design workflow, while harnessing Netflix’s world-class design system and tooling.

• Meaningful financial support for further education and professional growth.

• An inclusive environment to help you do your best work and feel genuinely supported.

What You Will Do

• Use strong storytelling to create a clear understanding of the UX strategy with  cross-functional teams. Apply big-picture thinking to break down ambiguous opportunities into actionable roadmaps.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams spanning sales, marketing, research, data science, product management, and engineering to develop and iterate upon new concepts and facilitate product execution.

• Identify, research, design, and execute business differentiating features for Netflix’s advertising suite.

• Craft strategic design briefs that provide business, design, and engineering clarity for critical initiatives.

• Influence ads business strategy by developing a deep understanding of end-to-end advertising ad tech experience, ensuring our ads platform experience aligns with Netflix’s broader business ecosystem.

What We’re Looking For

• A strong, strategic leader able to work across various strategic and tactical levels, rapidly sketching and prototyping.

• Innate curiosity to understand needs across the business and develop solutions that address core needs, while thriving in ambiguity and a fast pace.

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

• Partner with PMs to craft systematic solutions that connect the dots between user needs, data, business goals, and business strategy. Facilitate collaborative work sessions with all levels of company stakeholders.

• Domain familiarity with advertising technology best practices - you’re comfortable with advertising nomenclature, operations, and Live streaming technology.

• A passionate energy for great design and amplifying our team culture.

• 15+ years as a Product Designer (or equivalent experience) in the B2B2C space, leading high-impact initiatives from concept to execution in technical business areas.

• 5+ years as a Product Designer working specifically in advertising or ads adjacent industries.

• A versatile portfolio that showcases deep interaction and problem solving skills, specifically case studies that demonstrate expertise and leadership solving complex business platforms.

• Understanding of complex workflows designed to scale across diverse, global operations teams.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills that excite stakeholders and articulate a vision.

• Highly organized with meticulous attention to detail (e.g writing documentation to support your design decisions).

Even Better:

• Ad tech domain expertise: you’ve developed expertise in delivering advertising technology to a global audience.

• Experience working with complex internal systems, data platforms, and highly technical environments (like API platforms).

• Experience leading design strategy for B2B2C advertising ecosystem (e.g. influencing product direction through the lens of experience design).

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 details 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.