What You Will Do

• Deeply understand and triangulate across customer needs, product analytics, and external industry innovation to drive product vision and strategy for Data Platform offerings that maximize business and customer impact
• Partner closely with senior management and engineering teams to define and align with stakeholders on vision, strategy, and roadmaps
• Develop product roadmaps in partnership with relevant product and engineering teams that execute product vision and strategy and inform our 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 engineering teams to create continuous feedback loops that allow us to better understand their problems
• Ensure we are solving the right problems by sourcing input from multiple channels and prioritizing effectively to drive maximum impact for Netflix
• Ensure that our product evolution thoughtfully addresses product lifecycle and adoption/migration experience and provides clear guidance and recommendations to Netflix data users
• Help evolve Platform Engineering’s customer engagement model, communication strategy, and prioritization and planning/roadmapping practices

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager with at least 2+ years of domain experience in data stores
• Proven track record of managing and evolving a product portfolio and/or driving product vision and strategy
• A healthy blend of technical depth, deep domain expertise with a customer-focused mindset
• Demonstrated passion and experience in one or more data stores (e.g Object Storage, Key Value, Distributed Cache, NoSQL DBs, RDMD, Columnar Data Stores, or Graph Databases)
• Strategic thinker that can connect customer use cases to technology solutions and think holistically about the end-to-end experience
• Ability to manage a portfolio of bigger and smaller bets while balancing short-term goals and long-term vision
• Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success
• Leverages 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 written and verbal communication skills; timely communication with clear expectations