Product Manager, Catalog Understanding & Tooling Foundations

Netflix; Los Gatos (CA); On-site; USD 310,000 - 545,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) with employer match

Stock option program

Disability programs

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid time off

Job summary

Netflix seeks a Product Manager to lead catalog understanding and tooling foundations. You will collaborate with engineering, applied science, and internal customers to scale complex data models and licensing arrangements. The role emphasizes data-driven decisions and strong communication.

You will drive MVPs, influence product roadmaps, and balance technical constraints with business goals. The position invites collaboration across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience, with ownership of foundational or platform products.
• Experience with taxonomies, ontologies, or structured data models.
• Proven ability to modernize or simplify a legacy system.
• Experience defining, launching, and measuring MVP rollouts.
• Strong leadership working with engineers, applied scientists, and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain complex problems clearly.
• Experience with AI/ML-powered products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead catalog understanding and tooling foundations for Netflix's catalog.
• Partner with engineers, applied scientists, and internal customers to shape the roadmap.
• Define and ship MVPs, measure impact, and iterate based on data.

Skills

Product management

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

AI/ML experience

Job description

At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what's next.

Team Overview

Netflix's catalog spans an enormous and growing range of titles, sources, formats, and regional variations. Making that catalog understandable and usable requires foundational systems that can group, tag, and reason about content at scale. Our team builds and owns those foundational capabilities: the shared understanding of "what is in the catalog" that dozens of downstream teams depend on.

Role Overview

We're seeking a Product Manager to lead our catalog understanding and tooling foundations work. As Netflix's content sources, regional availability, and licensing arrangements grow more complex, the tools and systems that let internal teams group and act on the catalog need to scale and adapt with it.

Who Will Be Successful in This Role

To be successful in this position, you will partner with world-class teams across engineering, applied science, and a wide range of internal product customers, flexing both your analytical rigor and your ability to empathize with users who all interact with the catalog differently.

The following attributes are highly valued on our team:

• Ability to develop a long-term vision for foundational cataloging capabilities while executing on immediate, concrete priorities.
• Comfort with complex systems and data models, and understanding how they interact to create scalable solutions.
• Skill in gathering requirements across many teams with different (sometimes conflicting) needs, and synthesizing them into a coherent roadmap.
• Excellence in using data to inform product decisions, balancing technical constraints against business goals.
• Ability to synthesize the complex into the simple and persuasive, and tell compelling stories with data.
• Judgment to know when to modernize and simplify an existing system versus building something new.
• Comfort defining and running early-stage rollouts with real users, including setting success criteria and adjusting based on feedback.
• Good balance between being collaborative and open to alternative views vs. decisive and clear in communicating a vision for the team.
• An eagerness to seek feedback and improve.

Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of product management experience, with a track record of owning complex, foundational, or platform-level products used by internal or B2B customers.
• Experience building products on top of taxonomies, ontologies, or structured data models, and defining principles for what belongs in structured vs. unstructured systems.
• Demonstrated success modernizing or simplifying a legacy system that had grown in scope without a clear design vision.
• Proven ability to define, launch, and measure early-stage (MVP) rollouts of new capabilities with internal stakeholder teams.
• Demonstrated leadership working effectively with engineers, applied scientists, and cross-functional stakeholders across many teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to present technical, ambiguous problems clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with AI/ML-powered products is a plus.

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 $310,000.00 - $545,000.00.

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 details 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.

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.