Product Design Manager, Ads Platform

3 Months ago • 8 Years + • Product Design • $270,000 PA - $700,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Netflix seeks a Product Design Manager to lead their Ads Platform Experience Design Team. This role requires 8+ years of experience building high-performance teams, with 3+ years in B2B advertising platform design. Responsibilities include leading a team of designers, building a diverse team, providing structure and mentorship, championing design thinking, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and contributing to strategic decisions. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, exceptional communication abilities, deep advertising domain expertise, and a proven track record of success in a fast-paced environment. This hybrid role requires weekly on-site presence in Los Angeles or Los Gatos, with quarterly travel to New York.
Must have:
  • 8+ years experience leading product design teams
  • 3+ years in Advertising Platform (B2B) Product Design
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication
  • Deep understanding of advertising systems
  • Strong leadership and mentorship skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with complex internal systems
  • Expertise in SVOD and/or Live streaming ecosystems
  • Ad tech domain architect experience
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation
  • Flexible time off
  • Work-life balance
  • Work flexibility (hybrid)
  • Professional growth support
  • Inclusive environment
  • Comprehensive benefits (Health, 401k, Stock Options etc.)

Job Details

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.

***Flexible Remote Model: This role is a hybrid role. The business will require onsite engagement weekly while offering flexibility to work from home. Onsite/Remote depends on the business needs and priority of onsite business meetings, and working from home in low-engagement weeks.

We are seeking a highly ambitious, visionary, and systems-minded Product Design Manager to lead our world-class Ads Platform Experience Design Team. The team is very high-performing and requires an exceptional leader with deep domain and craft expertise, with strong emotional intelligence.

You'll be a foundational member of the advertising leadership team, working together with your partners in product, engineering, data science, consumer insights, content design, and other disciplines to define the strategy, operations and communications that enable Netflix to build a wildly successful advertising business. 

You measure success in terms of both human and business impact. You foster excellence through collaboration and encourage an inclusive, open environment that makes space for different perspectives and work styles. You inspire creativity and you’re an excellent advocate, evangelist, and listener who seeks and offers candid, constructive feedback. 

You will lead as a domain expert within our technical product design team, delivering a delightful, engaging, and relevant ads experience for Netflix advertisers and business stakeholders.

This hybrid-friendly role offers flexibility, with weekly onsite presence required to collaborate with stakeholders in Los Angeles and Los Gatos, CA - with quarterly travel to New York, NY. Candidates located in California or the Pacific time zone are preferred, but exceptions can be made for the right candidate.

The Team

to offer our members more choice in how they consume 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 audiences that are deeply immersed.

Our Ads Platform XD team designs technology, workflows, and capabilities that power Netflix’s advertising business.  We also design the foundational capabilities and technology for the next-generation of Netflix experiences, like Live entertainment.

We design the advertising systems and integrations that power the delivery of ads using our world class content delivery ecosystem. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our members’ viewing experience and drives great outcomes for advertisers. 

Our team is growing quickly, and yet faced with the 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 differentiate Netflix from other ad-supported streaming services.

Our team’s primary superpower is the ability to design creatively and collaboratively in highly technical environments – from core services that power Netflix’s streaming technology to industry-leading partnership platforms.

You’ll be the Product Design Manager for this team, reporting into the Director, you’ll lead, amplify, and grow one of the most talented and trailblazing design teams in the world. 

Why You’ll Love Our Team

  • Mission-Driven: Our mission is simple: to be the best advertising design team in the world.

  • High-Performing Team: We are a high-morale, high-velocity team with a significant growth trajectory.

  • Trust-Driven Leadership: Our leadership is focused on delivering big wins for Netflix, not playing politics.

  • Operational Success: Our embedded Design Program Management and Business Operations functions ensure you are set up with efficient planning, structure, and team coordination.

  • Fulfillment-Driven Culture: We enjoy winning together, not competing against each other.

  • Competitive Compensation: We offer top-of-market compensation and , flexible time off, and work-life balance.

  • Work Flexibility: Balance work-from-home and in-office work, with the ability to be onsite for meaningful collaboration and leadership presence.

  • Team Building Freedom: You have the freedom and flexibility to craft your dream team.

  • Professional Growth Support: We provide meaningful financial support for further education and professional growth.

  • Inclusive Environment: We foster an inclusive environment to help you do your best work and feel genuinely supported.

What We’re Looking For

  • Experience: 8+ years of successfully building and leading high-performance Product Design teams, with 3+ years specifically in Advertising Platform (B2B) Product Design.

  • Team-First Attitude: A palpable excitement for craft excellence and that amplifies our team’s velocity, performance, and camaraderie.

  • Leadership Skills: Understand leadership theory and craft a style that motivates a winning, high-performing team.

  • Exceptional Writing: You are an exceptional written communicator, contributing meaningfully to ads design, business, and product strategy.

  • Storytelling Ability: A world-class visual and verbal communicator with deep advertising domain expertise and mastery of ads nomenclature.

  • Executive Presence: Proven track record of influencing strategic business decisions at the Director+ level across cross-functional and business partners.

  • High Standards: Set high performance standards and hold designers accountable, making tough decisions for a more impactful team.

  • Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of technical advertising nomenclature and systems, with the ability to make strategic decisions and contribute to business strategy.

  • Operational Velocity: Craft a team operating model that enables bi-weekly delivery of critical functionality while maintaining team motivation and capacity.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Develop deep trust across all partner business functions and drive alignment between design and cross-functional partners.

  • Consumer & Platform Needs: Experience bridging experience requirements between an advertising business platform and consumer needs.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead the Team: Lead the Ads Platform Product Design Team, pioneering the global advertising ecosystem for Netflix.

  • Build a Diverse Team: Manage and build a diverse, inclusive team of Senior Product Designers that consistently delivers impactful ads platform experiences.

  • Provide Structure: Document team structure, expectations, performance guidance, and engagement models.

  • Understand Workstreams: Develop a deep understanding across all Ads Platform workstreams to effectively resource, coach, and solve problems for your team.

  • Coach and Mentor: Coach and mentor team performance, manage resource allocation, project prioritization, and cultivate a culture of design excellence.

  • Inspire and Engage: Keep your teams inspired and engaged by providing strategic clarity, direction, and focus while identifying and unblocking barriers to success.

  • Champion Design Thinking: Advocate for user-centered design and B2B systems to drive ads differentiation at scale.

  • Introduce Methodologies: Introduce new user-centered methodologies and frameworks to facilitate strategic alignment across the organization.

  • Strategic Contribution: Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of Netflix's products, balancing long-term vision with near-term objectives.

  • Collaborate Closely: Work closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Consumer Insights, and Ads Business leadership partners to plan OKRs and execute product roadmaps.

  • Balanced Decision-Making: Bring a balanced perspective to strategic discussions, advocating for both user-centricity and business needs.

  • Build Relationships: Build relationships with stakeholders and partners to discover and deliver the best outcomes for Netflix.

  • Seek Feedback: Actively seek and provide constructive feedback.

  • Continuous Improvement: Always look to improve the product, team, and company.

Even Better:

  • Exceptional storyteller: you are able to communicate business strategy to an executive audience through visual and nomenclature expertise.

  • Ad tech domain architect: you’ve developed expertise in delivering advertising technology to a global audience - and can be a source of guidance and mentorship for designers.

  • Experience working with complex internal systems, data platforms, and highly technical environments (like API platforms).

  • Deep experience in SVOD and/or Live streaming ecosystems: you either worked directly or adjacently with products that deliver a Live experience (like sports) to a globally distributed audience.

Compensation Range: 

Generally, 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 $270,000 - $700,000

Benefits 

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 detail about our Benefits . 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.

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