Staff Product Designer, Ads Platform

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.

We are seeking a highly ambitious, visionary, and systems-minded Staff Product Designer to join our world-class Ads Experience Design Team. In this role, you will partner with the Ads Platform Product Architect to envision the end-to-end advertising ecosystem for Netflix. Your deep expertise in the advertising domain will make you a strategic partner to our product, engineering, business, and sales teams, driving the execution of Netflix’s ads strategy.

You will lead as a domain expert within our product design team, delivering a delightful, engaging, and relevant ads experience for Netflix members. 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 most senior design domain expert who architects the ecosystem for these experiences and partnerships.  More specifically, you’ll be a critical part of one of the most talented and trailblazing design teams in the world.

Why You’ll Love Our Team

• We’re big on individual responsibility and smart on process.

• Work with stunning, supportive designers on problems that matter.

• Top of market compensation and , flexible time off, and work-life-balance.

• Flexibility to balance work-from-home and in-office work, so long as you’re able to be onsite for meaningful moments of collaboration.

• Freedom and flexibility to craft your own design workflow, while harnessing Netflix’s world-class design system and tooling.

• Meaningful financial support for further education and professional growth.

• An inclusive environment to help you do your best work and feel genuinely supported.

What You Will Do

• Partner with the Product Architect to envision the future of Netflix’s advertising business.

• Execute large scale product strategy across multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring your partner teams are aligned on direction and goals.

• Influence advertising business strategy at the Director and VP levels, across product and business teams.

• Lead the design and execution of platform technology that powers Netflix's ads experience. 

• Identify, research, and drive strategic initiatives that enable ads for our members.

• Craft business strategy and design briefs that provide business, design, and engineering clarity for critical initiatives.

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, tech writers, and business teams to develop and iterate upon new concepts and facilitate product execution.

What We’re Looking For

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

• 12+ years as a Product Designer (or equivalent experience) in the B2B2C space, leading high-impact initiatives from concept to execution in technical business areas.

• 6+ years developing advertising domain expertise across platform and consumer-facing roles.

• Deep product understanding of advertising ecosystems in the CTV environment.

• Fluent with advertising nomenclature, operations, and Live streaming technology.

• Proven executive influence in shaping business strategy at the Director and VP levels.

• A versatile portfolio that showcases deep advertising domain experience, interaction and problem solving skills - specifically with initiatives that have ecosystem-wide impacts.

• Mastery of complex workflows designed to scale across diverse, global operations teams.

• Experience contributing to and consuming component-based design systems.

• Excellent communication skills that excite stakeholders and articulate a vision.

• Highly organized with meticulous attention to detail (e.g writing documentation to support your design decisions).

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.

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

• Experience leading design strategy for B2B2C ads platform initiatives (e.g. influencing product direction through the lens of experience design).

• 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 $240,000 - $725,000

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 .

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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.