Analytics Engineer 5 - Content Applied Science and Analytics

Netflix is a leading entertainment company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology. They are seeking an Analytics Engineer to join the Content Applied Science and Analytics team, where the role involves leveraging data science and analytics to drive content initiatives and support cross-functional teams in creating impactful content.

Responsibilities:

• Empower New Content Initiatives: You will own the data vision for new content initiatives, defining success metrics, setting the architectural direction, and guiding the strategy for emerging formats from the ground up
• Own Data Strategy: You will define and lead the analytics roadmap for your vertical, proactively identifying high-leverage opportunities that shape our comprehensive content strategy
• Architect Advanced Insights: You will design and implement high-level analytical frameworks, dashboards, and custom tools that set the standard for how we measure and visualize content performance
• Elevate Technical Standards: You will act as a technical bar-raiser for the team–mentoring peers, reviewing technical designs, and establishing best practices to ensure we are building robust, scalable solutions

Requirements:

• Empower New Content Initiatives: You will own the data vision for new content initiatives, defining success metrics, setting the architectural direction, and guiding the strategy for emerging formats from the ground up
• Own Data Strategy: You will define and lead the analytics roadmap for your vertical, proactively identifying high-leverage opportunities that shape our comprehensive content strategy
• Architect Advanced Insights: You will design and implement high-level analytical frameworks, dashboards, and custom tools that set the standard for how we measure and visualize content performance
• Elevate Technical Standards: You will act as a technical bar-raiser for the team–mentoring peers, reviewing technical designs, and establishing best practices to ensure we are building robust, scalable solutions
• Creative Thinking: You are a creative problem solver who can look beyond the numbers to understand the art of storytelling, bringing innovative approaches to how we measure and understand content performance
• Strategic Ownership: You operate with a high degree of autonomy, capable of owning the end-to-end vision for complex and ambiguous cross-functional projects and translating broad business goals into concrete technical strategies
• Prior experience building data products, metrics, or strategies from the ground up is a strong plus
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: You pay attention to the details and make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects
• You act as a force multiplier for the team, enjoying the process of mentoring others, conducting code/design reviews, and fostering a culture of technical excellence
• Influential Communication: Exceptional communication with technical and non-technical audiences; you can effectively influence senior stakeholders and explain complex technical concepts with clarity
• Analytical Rigor & Visual Storytelling: Combines grounded statistical methodology with visualization engineering to transform complex quantitative analysis into high-impact dashboards and custom data tools (e.g., Plotly Dash, Tableau, Looker) that drive business decisions
• Technical Proficiency: Delivers scalable data solutions by merging advanced SQL and Python proficiency with data engineering workflows, ensuring reliability through engineering best practices like CI/CD, testing, and version control