Engineering Manager - User Data & Consent Management

Netflix•Remote, OR

77d•$436,000 - $710,000

About The Position

This role is responsible for the User Data & Consent subdomain within Identity Engineering, spanning two teams: Consent Data & Privacy, which owns user consent management end-to-end from collection, policies and enforcement, storage and access policies. User Data Management, which owns data collection experiences and practices, lineage, access control, and retention policy for Netflix's first-party user data. We're looking for an experienced engineering leader to run these teams as a manager-of-managers, overseeing an Engineering Manager and partnering closely with 2 senior ICs who drive the architectural agenda across the group, while directly managing the Consent team. You'll be accountable for near- and medium-term execution — keeping product consent experiences, the consent rules engine, consent/data storage, and data transport pipelines reliable and compliant — while also owning a multi-year technical vision for how Netflix manages first-party user data and consent responsibly at scale. A failure in consent signal propagation or a gap in data stewardship can create compliance exposure and slow roadmaps for partner teams, so this role carries risk and visibility well beyond a single team. Standard playbooks won't fully apply. You'll need to be a strong partner, evaluate and adapt frameworks as legal requirements evolve, identify gaps in how consent is enforced downstream, and propose new approaches to data minimization — building platforms and systems that are both technically robust and compliant with regulations that weren't written with Netflix's scale in mind.

Requirements

Proven experience managing, coaching, and developing high-performing managers.
Proven experience leading EM-level and senior IC reports across multiple teams or a full department.
Strategic and pragmatic thinker.
Ability to drive teams and outcomes in a highly ambiguous and fast-changing regulatory and technical environment, without a fixed playbook to follow.
Strong cross-functional partner with technical ownership.
Demonstrated ability to build trust and align priorities across Product, Data Engineering, and Legal/Privacy.
Industry experience in building systems for user data collection and engineering from product UIs, platforms, data migration strategies, and data governance, as well as consent data.
System design and full-stack technical credibility, sufficient to earn trust with senior ICs and make sound architectural calls across product, policy, storage, and pipeline concerns.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and develop high-performing managers.
Lead EM-level and senior IC reports across multiple teams or a full department.
Drive teams and outcomes in a highly ambiguous and fast-changing regulatory and technical environment.
Build trust and align priorities across Product, Data Engineering, and Legal/Privacy.
Build systems for user data collection and engineering from product UIs, platforms, data migration strategies, and data governance, as well as consent data.
Oversee product consent experiences, the consent rules engine, consent/data storage, and data transport pipelines.
Own a multi-year technical vision for how Netflix manages first-party user data and consent responsibly at scale.
Evaluate and adapt frameworks as legal requirements evolve.
Identify gaps in how consent is enforced downstream.
Propose new approaches to data minimization.