Product Manager, Data Movement Platform

Netflix is a leading entertainment company that is pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology. They are seeking a highly technical product manager to drive innovations within the Data Movement Platform, focusing on enhancing the user experience across data lifecycle processes and ensuring platform reliability and efficiency.

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, to delight users and enhance their productivity
• Partner with engineering on critical architecture decisions that 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 centered on user delight and productivity gains, and implement tracking to continuously improve platform capabilities through data-informed experiments
• 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:

• 8+ years of Technical Product Management experience (or equivalent technical role) in complex technical domains
• Strong knowledge of the Data Movement and Data Processing domain, including Streaming and Batch data processing (e.g., Flink, Kafka, Spark, CDC, Data Pipelines)
• Demonstrated passion for Data Movement, Data Processing, 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
• Makes timely decisions that provide clear direction and reduce ambiguity without analysis paralysis
• 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