Staff Product Designer, Member Experience - Platforms

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 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.

The Role

This role is on the Experience Design (XD) Discovery + Foundations team. The team is responsible for designing the core member experience worldwide and creating personalized entertainment experiences that help members discover and connect with the content they love. When it comes to Discovery, the team prioritizes personalized content discovery, leverages human-centered AI, and ensures each member’s experience on Netflix reflects what they truly value based on their tastes and preferences.

The Foundations aspect focuses on defining the app architecture, critical member journeys, scalable platform patterns, and strategic framework and guidelines that help scale the product for a variety of use cases and content types. Our focus is on product excellence and platform innovation for TV, Mobile, and Web experiences.  

This role supports the Member Experience product teams, which strive to make finding the right title on Netflix intuitive and compelling with relevant recommendations tailored to members’ needs.

This role can be hybrid but would be best for candidates located in California or in the Pacific time zone since in-person travel on a monthly basis may be required to collaborate with stakeholders. That said, we can always make exceptions in location for the right candidate.
 

About You

This role focuses on innovating at the heart of the Netflix product ecosystem across the member journey and helping to define experiences as our service expands to offer more types of content from Shows and Movies to Live and Games.  

This is an opportunity to lead innovative product design with a demonstrable impact on a global scale. Using your full range of interaction, visual, and product-thinking skills, you’ll lead and own product features and create platform-level patterns. You balance a passion for creating highly functional and emotionally resonant experiences with a strong desire to understand user behavior and business success. You’re comfortable switching between vision-level, defining UX frameworks, and hands-on pixel-level work. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams who are charged with revolutionizing how entertainment is consumed and how storytelling is showcased by delivering engaging, inclusive experiences to members.

You’ll thoughtfully question the status quo and look closely at how we can push the user experience further with emerging technologies. You thrive in uncharted territories where design hasn’t historically found itself or where the rules and engagements aren’t already established. How do the user experience, underlying logic, recommendation systems, and tooling all fit together? You’ll define strategies and design solutions that will bring this vision to life, then work with cross-functional partners to execute against it.
 

What You’ll Do

• Identify and define platform experiences and features and create elegantly simple solutions to complex problems. 

• Drive a human-centered design process for defining and executing features from concept to launch.

• Clearly communicate design rationale and iterations to partners and stakeholders.

• Articulate a vision and contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of what it means to design personalized member experiences from onboarding to browse, search, playback and beyond in an expanding ecosystem of content types.

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team spanning consumer research, data science, product management, merchandising and engineering to test, iterate and launch features that advance our mission to connect members with the best Series, Films, Live and Games. 

• Provide systems thinking for large-scale modular design systems, both strategically and tactically. 

• Lead a product domain with multiple initiatives, involving working across domains and/or on areas of sustained investments and roadmaps.

• Navigate the stakeholder landscape, working both horizontally and vertically to influence and shape company strategy and objectives.

• Identify business needs through domain expertise and business context; shape their work to account for complexities and uncertainties.

• Maintain a keen understanding of what motivates users and evangelize that knowledge across their team and domain.

• Employ storytelling to present a vision to create a shared understanding of the UX strategy with the broader team. Apply big-picture thinking to break down ambiguous opportunities into an actionable roadmap.

• Champion our members and a global-first mindset.

• Give and solicit feedback in order to continually raise the bar for quality and craft.

• Embrace our culture of experimentation and A/B testing and zero-to-one innovation

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing user experiences for consumer-facing products across mobile, web and/or TV. Discovery or search-related experiences are a plus.

• Experience designing and shipping personalized consumer products.

• Excel in interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills for defining how an experience should function and look based on understanding people's needs.

• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and articulate a vision.

• Track record of designing and shipping products and leading projects to successful outcomes for global users and the business. 

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, and drive clarity that brings the user, technology, and business together. Experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to articulate the rationale behind your design decisions. Experience presenting work to a broader product team and leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating goals and concepts.

• Experience connecting the dots across the organization with other related initiatives across the company while driving collaboration.

• An insatiable curiosity for user experiences powered by AI, machine learning, algorithms, and recommendation systems.

Pay Transparency

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 $240,000 - $725,000

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 detail about our Benefits . Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more .

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.