Netflix is a leading entertainment company focused on pushing the boundaries of storytelling through technology. They are seeking a Product Manager to shape the future of their cloud infrastructure product portfolio, driving efficiency and innovation to enhance engineering productivity and resource optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Deeply understand customer needs, product analytics, and industry innovation to drive the product vision and strategy for cloud cost efficiency and infrastructure management
- Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to define and align on vision, strategy, and roadmaps that maximize business and customer impact
- Develop product roadmaps that execute on the product vision and inform engineering teams of what problems need to be solved
- Define how we will measure the success and effectiveness of our products and drive the execution and continuous evaluation of those metrics
- Create strong partnerships with Netflix engineers, establishing continuous feedback loops to better understand their problems
- Ensure we are solving the right problems by sourcing input from multiple channels and prioritizing effectively
- Stay informed about industry advancements, influence their direction, and conduct comprehensive buy vs. build analysis
- Ensure that our product evolution thoughtfully addresses product lifecycle and adoption/migration experience
- Help evolve Platform Engineering's customer engagement model, communication strategy, and prioritization practices
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager
- Demonstrated expertise in cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure management approaches, which may include infrastructure as code, cloud resource management, or similar technologies
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools and platforms (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi)
- Experience with cloud efficiency and optimization
- Experience managing and evolving products in the cloud infrastructure space
- A healthy blend of technical knowledge with a customer-focused mindset and empathy
- Strategic thinker who can connect customer use cases to technology solutions and think holistically about end-to-end experience
- Ability to adapt focus across multiple initiatives while maintaining strategic continuity
- Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success
- Product intuition and judgment to solve problems and make decisions without perfect information
- Insatiable curiosity to learn new domains, keep up with industry innovation, and constantly ask 'why'
- Excellent communication skills; timely communication with clear expectations