Principal Product Manager, Experimentation Platform

Netflix is a leading entertainment company on a mission to entertain the world. They are seeking a highly technical Principal Product Manager to drive the Experimentation Platform, focusing on making experimentation effortless and reliable for teams across Netflix.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a compelling long-term vision and strategy for your portfolio, aligning user needs with business objectives and industry trends
• Build deep user understanding and empathy through regular engagement, research, and feedback loops to identify pain points and opportunities
• Develop and prioritize initiatives that balance immediate needs with strategic evolution to maximize impact, making thoughtful trade-offs and aligning stakeholders
• Partner with design and engineering to define requirements, create intuitive interfaces, and validate solutions that ensure cohesive user journeys across the platform ecosystem
• Partner with engineering on critical architectural decisions to ensure platform sustainability, scalability, and flexibility, while strategically managing technical debt
• Create effective rollout strategies and promote new capabilities through targeted communication, education, and roadshows, while providing comprehensive documentation, learning resources, and self-service tools that accelerate adoption and reduce support burden
• Define success metrics tied to user satisfaction and productivity, instrument the platform to measure them, and run a continuous cycle of data-driven experiments to prioritize and improve capabilities
• Develop platform standards and processes that balance flexibility with standardization and innovation with stability to maintain quality and consistency, including API design guidelines, versioning policies, and deprecation protocols
• Build strategic relationships and foster cross-functional collaboration to drive alignment and create shared ownership of outcomes

Requirements:

• 10+ years of Technical Product Management experience (or equivalent technical role) in complex technical domains
• Strong knowledge of experimentation and causal inference fundamentals, A/B and multivariate testing, and platform capabilities, including allocations, metric instrumentation, and governance, experiment runtime/triggering, analysis pipelines, and monitoring for bias, novelty, and interference
• Demonstrated passion for experimentation platforms and methodologies with a pulse on emerging trends
• Proven track record of managing product portfolios in complex technical domains with a clear vision and strategy to maximize portfolio impact
• Deeply understands user needs through continuous engagement
• Understands how platform investments drive business outcomes
• Deeply analytical mindset that leverages quantitative and qualitative data to understand user behavior, validate assumptions, and inform product decisions
• Makes timely decisions that provide clear direction and reduce ambiguity
• Creates psychological safety through vulnerability and assuming best intentions
• Builds strong relationships across organizational boundaries, grounded in mutual respect and shared goals
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and inspire
• Builds reputation through consistent, high-quality delivery
• Champions incremental learning and fast feedback loops with customers