Engineering Manager, Content Promotion & Distribution

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Content Promotion & Distribution (CPD) sits at the intersection of the consumer experience and the Netflix Studio. Our team is integral to making the Netflix experience feel personal and relevant by developing innovative approaches to how we catalog, promote, localize, and distribute content.

The CPD organization  is composed of several groups, one of which we are hiring within is the Promotional Assets & Creative Technology (PACT).  PACT creates technology to promote content on the Netflix service and off service on social channels.  We increase conversation and choosing by connecting members & fans to stories they love with quality promotional assets created as efficiently and quickly as possible.

Within CPD, we are hiring 2 Engineering Managers to lead the following teams:

MarTech Asset Distribution: The team is responsible for developing technology that supports efficient and connected workflows to achieve creative and operational excellence for Marketing partner social teams. This includes planning marketing campaigns, asset management, and distribution with solutions enabling teams to “create once, publish everywhere”, all aimed at sparking and amplifying conversations to fuel the thrill of what’s next.

Promo Asset Management: The team is responsible for the development of the centralized platform for managing, discovery, and sharing promotional assets (ex: images, videos). This includes search and discovery, asset management, and distribution with solutions enabling teams to “create once, publish everywhere”, all aimed at sparking and amplifying conversations to fuel the thrill of what’s next.

What you will do:

You will lead a team of software engineers to deliver high-impact results, your responsibilities in this role:

• Build great relationships through partnering with product managers, designers, engineers, and other engineering managers across to deliver the vision, strategy, and adoption of your team’s products across our stakeholder groups. 

• Foster a strong accountability culture in the team and help them deliver their roadmap reliably and in a timely manner to support the needs of critical business stakeholders.

• Act as a credible technical advisor to the team; help the team make thoughtful, informed decisions in ambiguous situations

• Connect the dots across peer teams to selflessly prioritize work beyond the scope of your own domain.

• Effectively communicate complex ideas and influence decisions across a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Balance business needs with strong engineering principles, ensure investment in foundational technical work, pay off tech debts, and make incremental improvements to deliver timely results.

• Hire, coach, and lead a team of outstanding UI and Backend Engineers, challenging them to bring their best selves to their daily work, and deliver exceptional results in stability, performance, efficiency as well as the product experience.

• Build and nurture an inclusive team culture where every member feels empowered, accepted, and respected.

What we are looking for:

• At least 2 years of experience in building and managing high-performing teams with a focus on inclusion and diversity. Ability to attract and retain the best talent, and ensure that all voices are heard to inform our decisions while fostering a strong culture of accountability, where individuals take ownership of their responsibilities and contribute to the team’s collective success.

• Ability to foster a team culture of open and direct communications, where team members feel empowered to offer constructive and positive feedback and acknowledge achievements and areas for improvement.

• Experience building and operating extremely reliable products and services used in enterprise settings supporting critical use cases, including running 24x7 on-call.

• Long-term strategic thinker with a strong product mindset, and ability to define and articulate product vision and strategy and how they fit into the broader objectives of the organization.

• Ability to prioritize strategically and align the team’s work with larger business goals. Have the courage to pivot based on broader impacts.

• Ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with cross-functional partners and stakeholders with excellent communication and collaboration skills. Capable of influencing the strategic direction of partners and stakeholders.

• Proven track record helping a team deliver timely results on critical priorities against many demands for their time, and partnering with product and engineering management to influence the right areas for investment

• Bring rigor to decision-making and drive down ambiguity with the right mix of collecting data, seeking input, farming for dissent, and making pilot investments to build understanding or confirm direction.

• Experience driving teams to adopt specific KPIs/leading indicators of system health, observing and tuning the systems to prevent predictable outages.

• Strong communication skills - with the team, stakeholders, partners, and leadership, particularly across global borders

Nice to have:

• Experience building enterprise software and distributed systems

• Experience leading engineering teams with both UI/UX and Backend engineers

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

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