Product Manager, Developer Platform - Application Development Platforms

Netflix is a leading entertainment company focused on pushing the boundaries of storytelling through technology. They are seeking a highly technical Product Manager for their Application Development Platforms to enhance developer productivity and streamline software development processes.

Responsibilities:

• Drive Product Vision and Strategy: Deeply understand and triangulate across customer needs, developer productivity metrics, operational data, and external industry innovation to shape the vision and strategy for Netflix’s JVM ecosystem and Java application development offerings, ensuring they maximize business and developer impact
• Roadmap & Alignment: Partner closely with senior engineering leaders and stakeholders to define a forward-looking roadmap. Align on priorities and trade-offs that support Netflix’s technology strategy
• Execution & Delivery: Develop product roadmaps in partnership with engineering teams that execute on your vision. Clearly articulate problems to be solved, and see features through from idea to launch
• Metrics-Driven Improvement: Define key success measures (e.g., build times, time to deploy, framework migration progress, performance metrics) and drive experiments or initiatives to continuously improve those metrics, fostering a metrics-driven mindset for developer productivity
• User Engagement: Create strong partnerships with Netflix engineers through regular outreach and feedback loops. Gather input via interviews, surveys, and usage data to deeply understand their workflow challenges. Champion the voice of the developer
• Technical Excellence & Reliability: Drive technical excellence in our Java application framework and runtime systems. Ensure these systems are highly reliable, secure, and performant
• Industry Awareness & Build vs. Buy: Stay informed about advancements in languages ecosystems, application frameworks, and build tooling. Evaluate opportunities to incorporate cutting-edge tools or practices and conduct thoughtful buy-vs-build analyses
• Prioritization & Focus: Prioritize effectively to maximize impact, balancing quick wins with foundational investments, and user experience improvements with technical scalability. Maintain clarity on short-term vs. long-term goals

Requirements:

• 8+ years of Product Management experience (or equivalent technical role), with a proven track record of managing and evolving a broad product portfolio and driving product vision and strategy in a complex, technical domain
• Strong technical knowledge and depth of application development fundamentals, the JVM ecosystem, modern application frameworks, build systems, and dependency management methodologies
• A healthy blend of deep technical knowledge with a customer-focused mindset and empathy for engineers. You must be comfortable discussing topics like design trade-offs and system quality attributes (scalability, reliability, performance, security) with engineering teams
• Demonstrated passion for developer platforms, tools, workflows, and infrastructure, staying up-to-date on industry best practices in DevOps/DevEx
• Strategic thinking that can connect customer use cases and pain points to innovative technology solutions, thinking holistically about the end-to-end experience
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and navigate complex organizational boundaries
• Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success, prioritize problems, and measure impact