Engineering Manager, Ads Finance

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Finance • $190,000 PA - $960,000 PA

About the job

Job Description

Netflix seeks an Engineering Manager for its Ads Finance team. This role involves leading a team responsible for building and maintaining systems related to revenue recognition, invoicing, and reporting for their advertising platform. The manager will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, ensure financial data governance and compliance (including SOX), and manage financial transactions. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, experience in the advertising marketplace, and a proven track record of building and leading software engineering teams. The role demands working in a fast-paced environment, fostering a high-performing team, and delivering impactful results in a rapidly growing sector.
Must have:
  • 10+ years experience, 3+ years management
  • Strong product mindset, complex project delivery
  • Advertising marketplace understanding
  • Revenue recognition, invoicing workflows for DSPs
  • Financial data governance, compliance (SOX)
  • Building scalable, secure financial systems
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with ad regulations
  • ML/advertising systems experience
  • CTV experience
  • Knowledge of VAST, OpenRTB
Perks:
  • Comprehensive health plans
  • Mental health support
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Stock option program
  • Disability programs
  • Flexible time off
  • Paid time off

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 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.

in November 2022 and are building an in-house world-class to offer our members more choices in consuming their content. Our new tier allows us to attract new members at a lower price point while also creating a compelling path for advertisers to reach deeply engaged audiences.

Our Team

The Ads Platform Engineering creates the ecosystem that spans across the “Pitch to Pay” process. It goes all the way from enabling our sales teams (and other DSPs, resellers) to engage advertisers to run their campaigns on Netflix, and cuts across inventory and order management, campaign execution, ad serving, audience onboarding, targeting and delivery, measurement, reporting and finance.


We use several Netflix investments and innovations - a unique mix of client and server-side ad insertions, state-of-the-art content delivery systems, ad encoding recipes, content understanding, and metadata, etc. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our member’s viewing experience and drive great outcomes for advertisers. We also ensure that advertiser brand safety is ensured during serving so that members only see the most appropriate ads for them.


Our team is faced with the enormous ambitions of building highly performant advertising systems and delivering high impact to our business by monetizing our incredible slate of content. As one of the newest entrants in the Connected TV advertising space that’s rapidly growing, we seek to build unique value propositions that help us differentiate us and become a market leader in record time. Our roles come with expectations of delivering in a rapid clip, being comfortable with the lofty goals and visibility that come with this responsibility and an appetite to operate like a startup within an established company.


We are looking for a people manager to join us on this journey, to lead some exciting initiatives, and the talented engineers who work on realizing our ambitious vision.


As an Engineering Manager you will:

  • Drive success in a fast paced, flat organization with minimal process and a heavy emphasis on ownership.

  • Support your team by contextualizing the larger vision, enabling prioritization and fostering high focus and executional excellence.

  • Operate as an ambassador of the Netflix Culture

  • Create a dream team by hiring, retaining, and growing high performing talent.

Skills & experience we’re seeking:

  • 10+ years of total experience with 3+ years of management experience in building and leading diverse software engineering teams. 

  • A strong product mindset along with experience in delivering large complex projects collaborating with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders that are technology, operations or business focused.

  • General understanding of the advertising marketplace and landscape. 

  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking with demonstrated product sense and leadership in the working environment

  • Proven expertise in developing workflows for revenue recognition, invoicing, and report exchanges with DSPs, with a strong ability to manage financial transactions and revenue tracking in the advertising domain.

  • Strong understanding of data governance principles for finance data, with experience in building robust, scalable, and secure systems for handling financial data, processing transactions, and generating accurate bills.

  • In-depth knowledge of finance compliance, including audit and SOX requirements, ensuring accurate billing and strict adherence to regulatory standards.

Nice to haves:

  • Familiarity with legal compliance and changing landscape of ads regulations around the world.

  • Familiarity with ML and advertising systems that leverage data to drive optimal outcomes for the users and the business.

  • Experience working in the CTV space and knowledge of it’s unique constraints

  • Awareness of ads industry technology standards (e.g  VAST, OpenRTB) or worked on an industry consortium effort, working group etc.

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. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $190,000 - $960,000.

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. See more details about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more 

is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

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$190.0K - $960.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$575.0K/yr avg.
Los Gatos, California, United States

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Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services with over 247 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.

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