Product Manager, Catalog Understanding & Tooling Foundations

Netflix•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$310,000 - $545,000

About The Position

Netflix is seeking a Product Manager to lead its 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. The focus will be on leading the product strategy for foundational catalog understanding and management capabilities. This role involves working closely with internal stakeholders across Netflix to ensure related tools and systems work together coherently, support the evolution of complex workflows, and incubate early AI-powered capabilities. The Product Manager will partner with engineering and applied science to test new approaches with real users and guide them toward broader impact.

Requirements

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.
Comfort with complex systems and data models, and understanding how they interact to create scalable solutions.
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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI/ML-powered products is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead the product strategy for foundational catalog understanding and management capabilities.
Ensure related tools and systems work together in a coherent way.
Support the evolution of complex workflows that have grown over time.
Incubate early AI-powered capabilities that could reshape how teams interact with the catalog.
Partner with engineering and applied science to test new approaches with real users and guide them toward broader impact.
Develop a long-term vision for foundational cataloging capabilities while executing on immediate, concrete priorities.
Gather requirements across many teams with different (sometimes conflicting) needs, and synthesize them into a coherent roadmap.
Define and run early-stage rollouts with real users, including setting success criteria and adjusting based on feedback.
Communicate a clear vision for the team.