Director of Applied AI for Title Launches

Netflix, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 436,000 - 710,000; 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

Family‑forming benefits

Flexible time off

Paid leave

Job summary

Netflix is seeking a leader to oversee the TLM Data Science and Engineering team, driving end-to-end content launch initiatives across our global catalog. You will build scalable AI/ML foundations, evaluate pipelines, and ensure reliable, fast title launches that meet creative and operational needs.

You will coach a diverse team of ML scientists and analytics engineers, partner with Product, Launch Operations, and engineering teams, and translate business goals into actionable roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct management experience shipping production-grade AI/ML software.
• Proficiency in software engineering fundamentals and LLMs, RAG, and agentic architectures.
• Experience designing and implementing evaluation pipelines for AI/ML products.
• Experience building safety guardrails to manage business risk and feedback loops.
• Familiarity with ML evaluation methodologies (e.g., offline metrics, online experiments, human evaluation).
• Experience automating an established operational workflow and managing human-in-the-loop handoffs.
• Strong collaboration and ability to translate goals into team priorities.
• Nice to have experience in the media technology domain.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a diverse portfolio of end-to-end initiatives for Netflix’s title launch strategy and global catalog.
• Lead the team in developing rigorous, scalable evaluation pipelines and safety guardrails to monitor launch speed, content and format diversity, technical spec compliance, and risk across our global catalog.
• Guide the team in designing feedback loops and data infrastructure that continuously bring high-quality real-user data into evaluation and training pipelines to improve performance over time.
• Coach, hire and develop a team of machine learning scientists, analytics engineers, and data engineers, fostering an agile, high-quality development culture.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Launch Operations, Partner Integration Managers, and multiple Engineering teams to identify opportunities, shape strategy, define roadmaps, drive execution, and deliver well-structured rollout plans.
• Cultivate durable partnerships across product, engineering, and operations; communicate complex ideas clearly to various audiences; connect the dots across teams; and influence priorities beyond your immediate domain to jointly deliver outcomes.
• Foster a culture of ownership and timely, reliable delivery against the roadmap while acting as a trusted technical advisor who balances business goals with strong engineering practices and continuous improvement.
• Create an environment where everyone feels empowered, accepted, and respected, and where diverse perspectives are actively encouraged and valued.

Skills

Management experience

AI/ML software

Software engineering fundamentals

LLMs & agentic architectures

Evaluation pipelines

Safety guardrails

Automation in operations

Cross-functional collaboration

LangGraph / Agent SDK

Vector databases

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Metaflow

LangGraph

DSPy

Agent SDK

Vector databases

Job description

Netflix is seeking a leader to oversee the TLM Data Science and Engineering team, driving end-to-end content launch initiatives across our global catalog. You will build scalable AI/ML foundations, evaluate pipelines, and ensure reliable, fast title launches that meet creative and operational needs.

You will coach a diverse team of ML scientists and analytics engineers, partner with Product, Launch Operations, and engineering teams, and translate business goals into actionable roadmaps.