Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.
The Content and Business Products team builds technology to scale Netflix's content operations from concept to streaming. We create systems and services that enable teams worldwide to plan, produce, distribute, and promote our titles. This role sits within the Content Foundations team, which creates both end-user applications and developer platforms that ensure reliable data and efficient workflows across our content lifecycle.
With Netflix expanding into games, advertising, live sports, and new entertainment formats, we need to fundamentally transform how we manage content through its entire journey. As the Product Manager for Content Lifecycle Management, you'll lead the development of a foundational platform that orchestrates how diverse content types move from concept to launch. You'll create systems that provide authoritative lifecycle tracking, enable business-configurable workflows, and establish the flexible data foundation required to support our content pipeline. This is a rare opportunity to solve challenges at the intersection of massive scale, complex workflows, and business agility—problems few companies in the world face at this magnitude.
This role can be based in our Los Angeles or Los Gatos offices in a hybrid model or remotely from the West Coast. Regular travel to our Los Angeles or Los Gatos offices will be required if remote-based.
As a Product Manager at Netflix, you will:
- Build strategic roadmaps and take product concepts from idea through validation, delivery, measurement, and iteration
- Author strategy memos and presentations, representing your team's work across the organization and to senior leadership
- Lead a team of stunning colleagues across design, engineering, data management, and data science to deliver outstanding products to our customers
- Build business cases and measure the impact of your product innovation
- Deeply understand and socialize the evolving needs of our customers
As the Product Manager, Content Lifecycle, you will:
- Define and deliver the Content Lifecycle platform strategy, establishing a multi-year vision that transforms Netflix's data foundations to support flexible, configurable lifecycle models designed to deliver diverse content formats
- Lead cross-functional adoption, partnering with product and engineering teams across Netflix to integrate the Content Lifecycle Service, providing migration paths from legacy systems and demonstrating measurable operational impact
- Establish lifecycle governance framework, collaborating with operational leaders to define standardized lifecycle stages, create data stewardship models, and build consensus on shared vocabulary across content types
- Build lifecycle management tools for business users, enabling teams to visualize lifecycle states, manage entity relationships, and resolve data issues without engineering support.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of Product Management experience with proven success building and scaling technical products
- Track record of building technology solutions for technical practitioners and data professionals
- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-year transformation initiatives with organization-wide impact
- Strong understanding of data modeling and governance in distributed data environments
- Ability to inspire and lead cross-functional teams - your relationship-building skills are critical to success
- High AI literacy and experience with launching AI enabled products.
- Excellent communication skills - you'll need to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences
- Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems a plus
- Embodies the Netflix values while also bringing a new perspective to improve our culture. We strongly believe that diversity of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and better products for our customers.
Generally, 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 $240,000 - $725,000.
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 Benefits here.
Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.
Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for 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 diversity builds 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.
