Product Design Manager, Studio Media & Animation

Job Description

**This role can be in Los Angeles or Los Gatos**

Netflix is the leading provider of streaming video, reaching over 193 million subscribers in more than 190 countries and territories around the world. Our subscribers consume over five billion hours of video a quarter and account for a third of the downstream Internet traffic. Supporting this global brand presents significant engineering challenges.

At the center of solving those challenges is the Netflix Studio XD team, responsible for the acquisition, production, and launch of the content streamed by our members.

The Studio XD team's mission is to create technology solutions for all aspects of content creation, from script to screen. Product Designers in our organization work at the intersection between storytellers, technology, and the business.

The Studio Media team will be innovating in tooling that supports our most precious creative assets - the actual media we create for our original shows. This design team seeks to make the experience of creatives - such as animators, VFX artists, post-production artists, and editors - more intuitive and seamless as they work with Netflix and Netflix productions.

This is a fairly new team, and your role will be both leading and building the team that can keep up with the pace of innovation in our rapidly expanding studio.

About Netflix

Although Netflix is an established company, in many ways we still act like a startup. The organization is flat, process is minimal, individual responsibility is big, and there is an emphasis on keeping non-productive influences out of the everyday decision process. We endeavor to stay nimble and make decisions quickly.

About the Studio XD team

We are the newest and fastest-growing design department at Netflix. Designers in our space lean on a broad set of UX skills ranging from product thinking to interaction design, user research to visual communication. We work in close collaboration with Product and Engineering partners to build groundbreaking innovations for the people inside and outside of our Studio that help Netflix create, license, and deliver world-class content to our members.

About the role & the Studio XD Media team

Netflix is producing an unprecedented volume and variety of content, and is doing it all around the world. As a Product Design Manager for Media & Animation, you will lead a team of stunning designers - who are dedicated to creating innovative products supporting post-production, vfx, and animation workflows at scale. This team is responsible for modernizing the way that footage comes off of cameras and into our studio, how teams of creatives collaborate on editorial, vfx, and animation workflows, and how coordinators oversee all these moving pieces to ensure the finished product comes together into an awesome piece of entertainment for our members.

You will partner with other design, product, and engineering leaders to elevate the design and user experience strategy across the Animation and Media Management areas owned by the designers on your team.

About You

You measure success in terms of both human and business impact. As a leader, you foster excellence through collaboration and encourage an inclusive and open environment which makes space for diverse viewpoints and working styles. You are an excellent advocate, evangelist, and listener - and are comfortable directly engaging stakeholders, customers, users and investors alike.

You have recruited and managed effective product design teams with experience building both consumer and enterprise software. You set a high bar for execution, communication, and the responsibility of your team members. You know how to work cross-functionally with multiple teams, as well as make your ideas and data clear to get everyone on the same page.

You seek and offer candid and constructive feedback, and lean into conflict with curiosity, humility, and a willingness to understand. You have a strong focus on usability and efficiency, and strive to simplify complex problems. With every new release, your team leads the charge towards more effective, more impactful services.

The Must Haves:
• 10+ years total experience
• 6+ years managing product designers
• Track record of working cross-functionally and influencing sr leadership across groups
• The ability to form consensus across a broad, fast-moving organization
• A history of mentoring strong designers and contributing to the design community
• A deep sense of accountability, fostering a high degree of responsibility within your team
• Understanding of complex workflows designed to scale across diverse, global operations teams
• Experience working in continuous delivery environments where the pace is fast and a focus on execution is critical
• Experience contributing to and consuming component-based design systems
• Excellent communication skills
• A willingness to fail and learn
• A passion for entertainment, filmmaking, and storytelling

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy8ypr-3-142-197-198-42 in your application.