Netflix

Market Planning & Operations Manager (UCAN) - Commercial Planning

Netflix$220K — $350K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in planning, sales operations, or commercial enablement in digital advertising.
  • Deep understanding of Direct Sales deal cycles and buying behaviors.
  • Direct experience with Programmatic advertising.
  • Familiarity with the US advertising landscape and digital media operational models.
  • Strategic mindset able to balance big-picture thinking with attention to detail.
  • Experience with AI tooling, including custom skill development and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Lead annual and in-year commercial planning for UCAN Advertising.
  • Drive planning processes across various UCAN Ads teams.
  • Integrate UCAN inputs into global product and policy planning.
  • Develop commercial approach recommendations and drive consensus within the leadership team.
  • Collaborate with Sales Operations to incorporate insights into planning processes.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure operational compliance.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans including mental health support.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
  • Stock option program available.
  • Disability programs and health savings accounts.
  • Family-forming benefits including paid leave.
  • Flexible paid time off policy for salaried employees.
  • 35 days annual paid time off for full-time hourly employees.
Full Job Description
As the Commercial Planning Manager on the MP&O team, you will be responsible for the regional business planning and the orchestrator for critical commercial initiatives. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role designed for a strategic operator who can translate high-level vision into rigorous, executable market plans. You will also be organizing complex workstreams, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring our advertising business scales with a high-performance operating rhythm and data-backed decision-making. Key Responsibilities • Lead the annual and in‑year commercial planning cycles for UCAN Advertising. • Drive planning processes across all UCAN Ads teams (Sales, Account Management, Sales Solutions, Measurement, and MP&O). • Act as the coordinator and integrator of UCAN inputs into global product and policy planning, ensuring our regional priorities are clearly articulated, sequenced, and reflected in global roadmaps and long‑range plans. • Develop recommendations for the commercial approach for key programs and drive consensus within the UCAN Leadership team. • Work closely with Sales Operations and Pricing to ensure learnings (forecast, pipeline, win/loss, deal performance) are fed into the weekly/monthly/quarterly and annual planning of the business.  • Partner with internal cross functional teams to ensure our reporting and operations are operationally compliant. Qualifications • 7+ years of experience in planning, sales operations or commercial enablement within a digital advertising environment. • Deep understanding of Direct Sales deal cycles and buying behaviors • Direct experience working with Programmatic advertising • Deep familiarity with the US advertising landscape, including agency and advertiser dynamics and the operational models required for digital media execution. • A strategic mindset with the ability to think big-picture while diving into granular details. • Experience with AI tooling (e.g. Claude), including custom skill development, workflow design, AI-assisted dashboarding, and prompt engineering.  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 $220,000.00 - $350,000.00. 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.

About Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company founded on August 29, 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, and currently based in Los Gatos, California, with production offices and stages at the Los Angeles-based Hollywood studios (formerly old Warner Brothers studios) and the Albuquerque Studios (formerly ABQ studios). It operates an eponymous over-the-top subscription video on-demand service, which showcases acquired and original programming as well as third-party content licensed from other production companies and distributors. Netflix is also the first streaming media company to be a member of the Motion Picture Association.
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11,300 employees
Market Cap
$127.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
+27.5%
Revenue
$24.9 billion
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