Manager, Applied AI - Title Launch Management

What you'll do

• Oversee a diverse portfolio of end-to-end initiatives to advance Netflix’s title launch strategy.
• Lead the development of scalable evaluation pipelines and safety guardrails to monitor launch speed and technical compliance.
• Analyze production failures to drive systematic improvements in model and workflow reliability.
• Design data infrastructure and feedback loops to integrate real-user data into training pipelines.
• Coach, hire, and develop a team of machine learning scientists, analytics engineers, and data engineers.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver rollout plans.
• Introduce automation into established operational workflows while managing human-in-the-loop handoffs.
• Translate high-level business goals into clear team priorities and actionable execution plans.

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of direct management experience shipping production-grade AI/ML software with measurable business impact.
• Proficiency in software engineering fundamentals and LLMs, RAG, and agentic architectures.
• Strong track record of designing and implementing evaluation pipelines for AI/ML products.
• Experience building safety guardrails to manage business risk and feedback loops for continuous improvement of models.
• Familiarity with ML evaluation methodologies and integrating them into continuous improvement processes.
• Experience introducing automation into established operational workflows and managing the associated change management.
• Strong product mindset with the ability to translate high-level goals into clear team priorities and plans.
• Experience in the media technology domain (preferred).
• Technical proficiency with hands-on experience across the AI/ML lifecycle, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, Metaflow, and vector databases (preferred).