Director, Growth Data Engineering

Netflix

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About The Position

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.
In this role, you will lead a team of talented engineers that build big data pipelines and services using distributed computing tools, such as Spark and Flink. These data pipelines are used to power machine learning models, experimentation, analytics, and dashboards across a variety of growth-related domains, including plans and pricing, identity, signup flow optimization, payments, and partnerships.
You will work closely with a cross-functional team of product engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to help grow Netflix. The data your team produces will be used to help directly improve the customer experience and inform future product strategy.

Requirements

• Many years of experience leading engineering teams that design and build distributed systems, including for real-time and customer-impacting applications
• Experience hiring and mentoring high-caliber, data-focused engineers that have diverse technical strengths and backgrounds.
• High-energy self-starter with a passion for data. You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong business acumen, and interest in contributing to roadmaps and strategy discussions.
• Exceptional communication skills, and can translate technical concepts into easy-to-understand language for business partners.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with machine learning and/or experimentation (A/B) testing a plus.
• Experience working in a growth-related domain (e.g. pricing, identity, payments, partnerships) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and mentorship to managers and individual contributors on the team.
• Develop strong relationships with data science, engineering, and business partners, and improve how we leverage data at Netflix.
• Help nurture the data engineering community at Netflix, which extends beyond your immediate team and requires working with other senior leaders
• Expand your team by attracting diverse talent that can push our technical boundaries.
• Foster an inclusive environment, where all points of view are welcomed and encouraged.
• Be a thoughtful leader, and drive both technical and business priorities and roadmaps.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees