Primary responsibilities:

• Collaborate with various organizational departments to drive the execution of playback initiatives across Netflix.
• Leverage the insights and experience from this work to influence the improvement of underlying technologies, architectures, and operations.
• Apply strong technical, organizational, and communication skills to devise sound technical approaches to abstract goals.
• Identify the systems involved to build new solutions, align roadmaps, and weigh relative priorities.
• Establish an overall plan for numerous teams to evolve the playback ecosystem.
• Identifying and mitigating technical risks.
• You are a strong communicator with exceptional listening skills. You can operate independently, challenge the status quo, and always play for the larger team.

What sets you apart?

• A passion for driving toward clarity and simplicity.
• Always thinking about the quality of experience implications of the team’s work.
• You are a thought partner to your platform and backend stakeholders.
• You balance competing concerns and make tough calls on where to cut scope vs. invest more, and how to make resourcing trade-offs across different domains.
• As comfortable speaking technically as non-technically and able to bridge between the two.
• 8+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, software engineering, or leading software development projects.

Desired Technical Skills

• Systems design, and architecture experience.
• Ability to identify gaps in solutions, debate technical approaches, and see various perspectives.
• Able to provide insights into business, product, and technology tradeoffs.
• Great at adapting solutions to meet short and longer-term needs.
• Expertise in low-latency streaming, hardware, and infrastructure.

Desired Project Management Skills

• Can devise and apply various approaches to the execution of complex initiatives.
• Coordination across many independent tracks of work and organizations.
• Risk identification and mitigation.
• Can balance strategic and tactical efforts to make tough calls and communicate the decision framework.
• Detail-oriented, can identify what’s missing in planning and execution of software development, testing, and launch.