Product Manager, Emerging Formats

Netflix•Remote, OR

12d•$440,000 - $725,000•Remote

About The Position

Netflix is hiring a Product Manager, Emerging Formats, for its Content Experience Innovation (CEI) team within Product Merchandising. The role leads the strategy for how members discover and engage with emerging content types, including areas such as Games, Live & Sports, and Podcasts. The work spans TV and other living-room experiences, mobile, tablet, and web, and may involve discovery and browse, players, profiles, and new product surfaces. The Product Manager will define product strategy, member needs, roadmaps, and experimentation approaches that help diverse content types thrive on Netflix’s unified platform. They will shape discovery experiences, develop concepts into scoped and prioritized roadmaps, and work across the broader PM community to ensure emerging formats fit into the wider member experience. The role sits between Product, Technology, Content, and Production, requiring collaboration and alignment across technical and entertainment teams while navigating ambiguity and competing needs. This US-based role offers location flexibility from the West Coast to the East Coast, with most team members working remotely. Key collaborators are primarily based in Netflix’s California offices in Los Angeles and Los Gatos. The role requires availability during California working hours and travel to those offices for key meetings as needed and occasional team gatherings.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience developing consumer products and features, including comfort handling complex tradeoffs.
Experience owning the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from inception and planning through launch.
Demonstrated leadership of a product area and ability to drive alignment across organizations.
Experience with A/B testing and strong business acumen, including identifying, tracking, and acting on metrics, designing tests, and working with data science partners.
Strong attention to detail and ability to connect individual experience elements to company and team goals.
Data-informed judgment and ability to use data to tell the right story.
Ability to collaborate and consider alternative views while making timely decisions and communicating a clear vision.
Eagerness to seek feedback and improve.
Availability during California working hours and ability to travel to California offices for key meetings and occasional team gatherings.

Nice To Haves

Experience with film, television, audio, podcasts, or other streaming media products at scale.
Understanding of the content lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Identify opportunities to evolve existing experiences or define new discovery, capability, and feature requirements for emerging content formats.
Build a product roadmap and take concepts from ideation through validation, shipping, measurement, and iteration.
Write strategy memos and presentations that communicate the Emerging Formats product strategy and roadmap to the broader organization.
Seek diverse viewpoints to ensure the team focuses on strategic and impactful work.
Influence and align colleagues across design, engineering, consumer insights, merchandising, and data science to deliver products.
Build business cases and measure product innovation impact in partnership with data science.
Understand and share evolving member needs in collaboration with consumer insights and design partners.
Collaborate across the PM community to ensure new content formats fit into the broader Netflix member experience.

Benefits

Health plans
Mental health support
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Stock option program
Disability programs
Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts
Family-forming benefits
Life and Serious Injury Benefits
Paid leave of absence programs
Flexible time off for full-time salaried employees
Paid time off accrual for full-time hourly employees: 35 days annually for vacation, holidays, and sick time