Manager, Content Data Engineering

Who are we?Netflix is the world's leading internet entertainment service with over 260+ million memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Our ultimate goal is to bring joy to our members with engaging and high-quality content across all audiences. 

Content Data Engineering team sits at the core of building a data ecosystem that powers Netflix’s understanding and decision-making about content. It is part of a larger data engineering organization within the Content and Studio Data Engineering vertical, with a strong sense of engineering community that fosters both technical and personal growth for each member of the team. This team’s main focus is to build rich, connected, and easily accessible data about how our content performs on the service. Core data about content is used across multiple business areas and functions, from getting informative analytics to feature engineering in predictive models. The scope of this team’s work is rapidly growing and there are new opportunities for impacting Netflix’s journey, like Live TV. We need an innovative leader, who is also grounded in making practical long and short-term decisions, with a passion for television and entertainment space and deep data engineering experience, to drive the team’s success in a quickly evolving business.

Who are you?

• Beyond talented, you are curious, creative, tenacious, and optimistic
• You have strong beliefs that are weakly held: you can argue, and hear all sides of a debate and adapt to new perspectives that emerge from it
• You have an extensive background and strong technical expertise working in a data domain and understand how to build for scale and business impact
• You are a role model for integrity, transparency and courage
• You have great judgment and can make tough decisions without agonizing
• You have a high tolerance for ambiguity and fast-changing context
• You enjoy working on hard problems with new tech, but what really drives you is creating levers for making a big impact and delighting your stakeholders
• You are experienced in hiring and leading high-caliber data teams with diverse technical strengths
• You have some people leadership experience: being a strong technical mentor and champion cultivating individual growth
• You are allergic to politics, micro-management, and heavy process

What will you do?

• Provide technical vision and strategy for building a data ecosystem that enables Netflix to leverage data about content within cross-functional teams
• Build strong and productive relationships across business, science, analytics, and engineering partners
• Balance immediate stakeholder needs vs longer-term vision
• Lead a dream team of data engineers to execute on a shared vision between analytics, engineering, and business partners
• Grow and mentor this team through a supportive mindset, thoughtful observation, and courageous, honest feedback
• Build strong relationships with other data engineering leaders at Netflix and contribute to commonly shared goals

What do you know?

• Mechanics of distributed systems processing
• Data modeling for analytics, data warehousing 
• Experienced in building broadly used data products 
• Comfortable with hiring and growing, and retaining strong engineering talent with various needs for personal and professional growth
• Relationship building across business and engineering teams feels like second nature
• Understand how to have influence without authority

Netflix cultureNetflix offers amazing colleagues, constantly evolving technology, fascinating analytical and technical challenges, and a Freedom & Responsibility culture that is truly unique. Our culture is an integral part of what makes us successful, and we approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that bringing together different perspectives and backgrounds helps build stronger teams. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. You can learn more about Netflix culture at jobs.netflix.com/culture.
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 $360,000 - $920,000.
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