Netflix

Product Manager, Core Discovery

Netflix$310K — $500K+*
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8 years of product management experience, ideally in consumer-facing or platform-oriented products
  • Strong product judgment in ambiguous settings
  • Technical fluency to collaborate with engineering and data teams
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams
  • Experience in building products across multiple platforms
  • Strong communicator of complex ideas
  • Data-informed mindset with metrics-driven decision making

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the product strategy and roadmap focused on user discovery
  • Develop intuitive experiences for members to find and engage with content
  • Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, designers, and researchers to execute on product ideas
  • Identify high-impact opportunities and balance short-term and long-term goals
  • Work on scalable solutions that improve the overall content discovery experience
  • Continuously assess and evolve the product against user needs and business priorities
  • Communicate product strategies clearly across the organization

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans including mental health support
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
  • Stock option program
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Paid leave of absence programs and generous vacation policies
  • Family-forming benefits and life insurance options
Full Job Description
Our team is hiring a Product Manager for Core Discovery. This role focuses on building product capabilities that help members more easily discover, choose, and engage with content across Netflix, whether that’s a series, film, game, podcast, or new content formats over time. You will work on developing experiences and solutions that make choosing feel simple and intuitive, and help members quickly find something they want to watch or play. This work spans all platforms, including TV, mobile, tablet, and web, and requires thinking beyond individual features to build solutions that scale across surfaces, use cases, and content types. You will define and drive the product strategy and roadmap for your area, grounded in member needs, data, and business priorities. You will work closely with cross-functional partners across engineering, data science, design, and research to take ideas from concept through execution and iteration. This role requires strong judgment in identifying the highest impact opportunities, balancing short-term improvements with longer-term investments, and building alignment across teams working on different parts of the member discovery experience. This role is ideally based in our Los Gatos or Los Angeles office in a hybrid model, but we are also open to remote candidates who are aligned with occasional travel to Los Gatos and Los Angeles. 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. 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 strong product judgment with the ability to work across a broad set of partners to define, explain, and execute on your product strategy. • You are comfortable operating in complex and ambiguous spaces, and can translate member needs, data, and business context into a clear vision, strategy, and roadmap for your area. • You partner effectively with cross-functional teams including other product managers, engineering, data science, design, and research to build and scale solutions that improve how members discover and engage with content. • You think beyond individual features and consider how your work fits into the broader product ecosystem, identifying opportunities to simplify and extend capabilities across surfaces, use cases, and content types. • You have a track record of shipping high-quality consumer products, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and driving measurable impact. Skills  • 5–8 years of product management experience, ideally in consumer-facing or platform-oriented products • Strong product judgment and ability to define strategy and roadmap in ambiguous problem spaces • Technical fluency with the ability to work closely with engineering and data teams and understand system-level tradeoffs • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional work across broad stakeholder sets (i.e. engineering, design, data science, research, other product managers).  • Experience building and shipping products that span multiple platforms and act as core capabilities.  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences • Data-informed mindset, with experience using metrics, experimentation, and research to guide decisions • Ability to connect product decisions to broader business goals and drive measurable impact • Proactive and growth mindset with a bias toward action and continuous improvement. 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 $310,000.00 - $545,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location. 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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Size
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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