Engineering Manager, Content Promotion & Distribution

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Content Promotion & Distribution (CPD) sits at the intersection of the consumer experience and the Netflix Studio. Our team is integral to making the Netflix experience feel personal and relevant by developing innovative approaches to how we catalog, promote, localize, and distribute content.

The Content Promotion and Distribution (CPD) Engineering Organization creates technology to set up, promote, localize and launch content on the Netflix service and off service on social channels. We build products and services that manage a global entertainment catalog and enable our members to discover, choose and talk about the content they can watch or play.

Within the CPD organization, the MarTech Team is responsible for developing technology that supports efficient and connected workflows to achieve creative and operational excellence for Marketing. This includes planning marketing campaigns, digital marketing, and brand partnerships with solutions enabling teams to "create once, publish everywhere", all aimed at sparking and amplifying conversations to fuel the thrill of what's next.

We are hiring 2 Engineering Managers to lead the following teams:
Marketing Technology Team:This team develops the technology standardizing workflows & data, connecting people & products, and creating an efficient supply chain for marketing campaigns to drive engagement and conversation.

Globalization Technology Team:This team is focused on providing the product and technology to localize our content and products at scale and make experiencing Netflix feel immersive and meaningful, no matter what language you speak.

What you will do:
You will lead a team of software engineers to deliver high-impact results, your responsibilities in this role:
Build great relationships through partnering with product managers, designers, engineers, and other engineering managers across to deliver the vision, strategy, and adoption of your team's products across our stakeholder groups.
Foster a strong accountability culture in the team and help them deliver their roadmap reliably and in a timely manner to support the needs of critical business stakeholders.
Act as a credible technical advisor to the team; help the team make thoughtful, informed decisions in ambiguous situations
Connect the dots across peer teams to selflessly prioritize work beyond the scope of your own domain.
Effectively communicate complex ideas and influence decisions across a diverse range of stakeholders.
Balance business needs with strong engineering principles, ensure investment in foundational technical work, pay off tech debts, and make incremental improvements to deliver timely results.
Hire, coach, and lead a team of outstanding UI and Backend Engineers, challenging them to bring their best selves to their daily work, and deliver exceptional results in stability, performance, efficiency as well as the product experience.
Build and nurture an inclusive team culture where every member feels empowered, accepted, and respected.

What we are looking for:
At least 3 years of experience in building and managing high-performing teams with a focus on inclusion and diversity. Ability to attract and retain the best talent, and ensure that all voices are heard to inform our decisions while fostering a strong culture of accountability, where individuals take ownership of their responsibilities and contribute to the team's collective success.
Ability to foster a team culture of open and direct communications, where team members feel empowered to offer constructive and positive feedback and acknowledge achievements and areas for improvement.
Experience building and operating extremely reliable products and services used in enterprise settings supporting critical use cases, including running 24x7 on-call.
Long-term strategic thinker with a strong product mindset, and ability to define and articulate product vision and strategy and how they fit into the broader objectives of the organization.
Ability to prioritize strategically and align the team's work with larger business goals. Have the courage to pivot based on broader impacts.
Ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with cross-functional partners and stakeholders with excellent communication and collaboration skills. Capable of influencing the strategic direction of partners and stakeholders.
Proven track record helping a team deliver timely results on critical priorities against many demands for their time, and partnering with product and engineering management to influence the right areas for investment
Bring rigor to decision-making and drive down ambiguity with the right mix of collecting data, seeking input, farming for dissent, and making pilot investments to build understanding or confirm direction.
Experience driving teams to adopt specific KPIs/leading indicators of system health, observing and tuning the systems to prevent predictable outages.
Strong communication skills - with the team, stakeholders, partners, and leadership, particularly across global borders

Nice to have:
Experience building enterprise software and distributed systems
Experience leading engineering teams with both UI/UX and Backend engineers

A few more things about us:
As a team, we come from many different countries and our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science. Our team includes product managers, program managers, designers, full-stack developers, distributed systems engineers, and data scientists. Folks have the opportunity to wear different hats, should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity has helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment and look forward to adding your perspective to the mix!

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $190,000 - $920,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefitshere.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn morehere.

Inclusionis a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want anaccommodation/adjustmentfor a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversitybuilds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.