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