Director of Product, Developer Platform
Netflix
- Los Gatos, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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
- 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