Director, Applied AI & Launch Ops - Stock Options

Netflix; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Mental health support

401(k) with employer match

Stock option program

Disability programs

Health savings account

Flexible spending accounts

Family-forming benefits

Life and serious injury benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Netflix is seeking a technically savvy ML leadership professional to oversee end-to-end AI/ML initiatives in title launch and content operations. You will guide a team of ML scientists, analytics engineers, and data engineers, building scalable evaluation pipelines and safety guardrails while aligning with product and engineering partners.

You'll foster an inclusive, high‑performing culture, hire, coach, and develop talent, and translate business goals into actionable roadmaps, driving reliable

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct management experience shipping production-grade AI/ML software with measurable business impact, building and managing high-performing, inclusive teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a diverse portfolio of end-to-end AI/ML initiatives for Netflix’s title launch strategy.
• Lead evaluation pipelines and safety guardrails for launch speed, content diversity, and risk.
• Design data infrastructure to continuously improve model performance with real-user data.
• Coach and develop a team of ML scientists, analytics engineers, and data engineers.

Skills

Team leadership

ML fundamentals

LLMs

RAG

Agentic architectures

Evaluation pipelines

Safety guardrails

Collaboration with product/engineering

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Metaflow

LangGraph

DSPy

Vector databases

Job description

Netflix is seeking a technically savvy ML leadership professional to oversee end-to-end AI/ML initiatives in title launch and content operations. You will guide a team of ML scientists, analytics engineers, and data engineers, building scalable evaluation pipelines and safety guardrails while aligning with product and engineering partners.

You'll foster an inclusive, high‑performing culture, hire, coach, and develop talent, and translate business goals into actionable roadmaps, driving reliable