Engineering Manager - Growth Messaging

Job Description

Netflix is the world's leading Internet television network with over 260+ million paid members enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. As a global household brand, we strive to bring joy to users by connecting them with stories and artists through a delightful and high-quality experience.

The Team

The Netflix Messaging Engineering team is at the forefront of curating and delivering sophisticated multi-channel messaging experiences for our members and partners within our expansive ecosystem. This team manages and operates the platforms, applications, and channels that facilitate seamless communication between Netflix and its customers and partners at scale. As the voice of Netflix to the customer, we deliver over 3.5 billion messages a week.

The Role

We are looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead the Growth Messaging product engineering team. This role will support key product areas such as Monetization, Ads, and Commerce Platform. The successful candidate will be at the epicenter of all Monetization and Commerce communication at Netflix, managing multiple high-priority, highly visible, and impactful projects while overseeing a team of nine engineers. This role will be based in Los Gatos, CA.

Responsibilities:
• Lead a team of nine engineers through highly complex and highly impactful projects.
• Manage multiple work streams and high-priority projects, collaborating with various cross-functional teams to identify project requirements and establish timelines.
• Drive the technical vision and strategy, with a strong emphasis on overseeing its successful execution.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with your interdependent engineering teams
• Prioritize growing your engineers as leaders and technical experts
• Support and foster operational excellence within the team.

About you:
• You love getting into the details but are equally comfortable giving your capable engineers opportunities to drive and thrive.
• You are an inclusive leader who makes room for all communication styles.
• You are comfortable leading in ambiguity and driving toward clarity.
• You don't shy away from providing constructive AND positive feedback to your team and your peers.
• You say the hard thing when it needs to be said.
• Your teams are motivated and inspired by your leadership.

Must haves:
• 5+ years of experience managing consumer-facing product teams.
• Deep knowledge of how to build systems in a distributed environment.
• Ability to identify code-smell or poor architecture design. We have fantastic engineers but everyone can use input and/coaching.

Nice To Have Skills:
• Experience working on Messaging.
• Experience working with ML Researchers, Algorithm Engineers or Data Scientists.
• Knowledge and experience working with machine learning systems.
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 $190,000 - $920,000.

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.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.

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