Engineering Manager - Promotional Artwork Engineering

Netflix•Los Gatos, CA

8d•$436,000 - $710,000

About The Position

Netflix is hiring an Engineering Manager for Promotional Artwork Engineering, part of Promotional Assets & Creative Technology (PACT) within Content Promotion & Distribution. The team builds and operates the platform that moves artwork from creation to members’ screens, including production and delivery workflows, localization across titles and markets, quality checks and automation, and promotional asset management. Its systems serve internal creative, marketing, and localization partners as well as external vendors and agencies. The manager will lead an established team of UI and backend engineers, develop its people, shape its technical and product direction, and oversee a broad portfolio of artwork products. The team works with Java and Spring Boot services, React and TypeScript frontends, GraphQL, and Netflix-managed data and workflow platforms. The role combines team leadership, delivery and portfolio ownership, technical partnership, operational excellence, and broad stakeholder collaboration. The manager will guide investment across new capabilities, foundational work, technical debt, and modernization; foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture; and bring structure to ambiguous decisions through data, stakeholder input, dissent, and small pilots.

Requirements

At least 2 years of experience managing engineering teams.
A record of attracting and retaining strong talent and building inclusive, high-accountability cultures.
Experience building and operating reliable enterprise products that support critical use cases, including 24x7 on-call.
Strong product mindset and ability to articulate vision and strategy and connect team work to broader business goals.
Ability and willingness to pivot when circumstances change.
A record of delivering critical priorities amid competing demands and influencing product and engineering leadership on investment decisions.
Experience driving teams to adopt metrics and leading indicators of system health.
Excellent communication and partnership skills, including across global time zones.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with creative, media, or content-supply workflows.
Experience with enterprise software, distributed systems, or workflow and pipeline platforms.
Experience leading teams that include both UI and UX engineers and backend engineers.

Responsibilities

Hire, coach, and develop UI and backend engineers, setting a high bar and fostering ownership, open feedback, and inclusion.
Turn the roadmap into reliable, timely results while managing competing stakeholder needs and communicating trade-offs.
Help the team make sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations and contribute to architecture and design discussions.
Set investment priorities across new capabilities, foundational work, technical debt, and modernization or consolidation of older systems.
Drive operational excellence through clear metrics, observability, system health, and on-call practices that help prevent outages.
Partner with product, design, peer engineering managers, creative, marketing, localization stakeholders, vendors, and agencies.
Influence direction, communicate complex ideas clearly, and prioritize work beyond the team’s immediate domain.
Use data, input from others, active dissent, and small pilot investments to clarify ambiguous situations and confirm direction.
Drive adoption of metrics and leading indicators of system health.

Benefits

Health Plans
Mental Health support
401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
Stock Option Program
Disability Programs
Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
Family-forming benefits
Life and Serious Injury Benefits
Paid leave of absence programs
Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off.
Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.