Senior Product Designer - Games Developer Ecosystem

Netflix

3d•Hybrid

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. Netflix Experience Design (XD) is an inclusive blend of design disciplines, focused on the company mission of entertaining the world. XD is responsible for the global Netflix experience, including how we acquire, retain and measure customer health, member streaming platforms, and developing, producing, marketing, branding and promoting Netflix experiences. This is a remote-friendly role with mandatory team meetings ~4 times a year in Los Gatos or Los Angeles for collaboration and team building. About the Netflix Games XD Team The Netflix Games XD team delivers games to 200+ million people across mobile, web, and TV. This takes work across discovery canvases for members and nonmembers, as well as the game developer lifecycle to ensure our development partners can build and launch awesome games and experiences for the Netflix platform. About The Role The Netflix Games Tools XD team is looking for a Senior Product Designer to focus on game development and game platform (enterprise) tools. In this role, you’ll be embedded within the Game Tools design team, which creates the applications, tools, and services that empower game developers and internal operations to launch cloud and mobile games successfully on the Netflix platform. As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll leverage your design expertise to craft intuitive, efficient, and scalable tools and workflows that enable internal and external game development partners to seamlessly develop and publish their games to Netflix. You’ll lead design projects from concept to delivery, collaborating closely with a multidisciplinary team of designers, UX writers, engineers, product managers, and UX researchers.

Requirements

8+ years as a Product Designer (or equivalent experience) in the B2B2C space, leading high-impact initiatives from concept to execution
Experience with game development, game platforms, game tools, and game developer personas
Experience working with complex internal systems and partner-facing platforms
A passionate energy for great design and amplifying our team culture
A versatile portfolio that showcases deep interaction and problem-solving skills
Ability to work autonomously, make strategic decisions independently, and drive clarity within ambiguous problem spaces
Understanding of complex workflows designed to scale across diverse, global operations teams
Experience contributing to and consuming component-based design systems
Excellent communication and people skills that excite stakeholders and drive decision-making
Ability to work Pacific Time Zone hours and travel occasionally to California in order to collaborate with team members and stakeholders

Responsibilities

Lead the UX and UI design of proprietary tools that enable game developers and partners to integrate features and services into their games, and launch their games on Netflix.
Identify, research, and drive individual design initiatives – down to the nitty gritty details to the holistic user journey – while navigating a complex set of user problems and business requirements.
Collaborate with a team of designers, engineers, product managers, technical writers, UX writers, UX researchers, and other stakeholders to develop new concepts and improve our suite of tools and features.
Work with our established design systems, and also contribute and innovate on new design components specific for our tools and unique needs.
Present your design work and strategy to key stakeholders and team members for visibility and feedback.

Benefits

A business environment that’s big on individual responsibility and efficient process
Work with stunning, supportive designers on problems that matter
Top of market compensation and benefits, flexible time off, and work-life-balance
Remote flexibility to balance work-from-home and in-office work, so long as you’re able to be onsite for meaningful moments of collaboration (when safe)
Freedom and flexibility to craft your own design workflow, while harnessing Netflix’s world-class design system and tooling
An inclusive environment to help you do your best work and feel genuinely supported
Being empowered to imagine what games on Netflix could be and create new work streams and tools to enable the best game developers in the world
Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options.
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.

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