Product Manager, Catalog Understanding & Tooling Foundations

Netflix

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Work type
On-site
Location
Los Gatos, CALos Angeles, CASeattle, WA
Salary
$310,000–$545,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
16 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $428k
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About Netflix

Netflix is the world''s leading streaming entertainment service, offering a vast library of TV series, films, documentaries, and original content to subscribers in over 190 countries. Industry: Streaming Entertainment & Media

Netflix currently has 71 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $440,000–$725,000 across 59 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Product Manager, Catalog Understanding & Tooling Foundations

Product Manager, Catalog Understanding & Tooling Foundations joins the team responsible for the foundational systems that group, tag, and reason about content at scale. This role involves leading the product strategy for catalog understanding and management capabilities, ensuring that internal tools and systems work coherently as content sources and licensing arrangements grow more complex. You will build and manage foundational capabilities, modernize legacy systems, and incubate early AI-powered capabilities. Key responsibilities include gathering requirements from diverse internal stakeholders, synthesizing them into a coherent roadmap, and partnering with engineering and applied science to test new approaches with real users. Required skills include experience with taxonomies, ontologies, structured data models, and AI/ML-powered products. You must demonstrate analytical rigor, data-driven decision-making, and the ability to manage complex data models.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $222000 from 280 postings across 53 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the product strategy for foundational catalog understanding and management capabilities.
  • Develop a long-term vision for cataloging capabilities while executing on immediate priorities.
  • Gather requirements from multiple teams to synthesize a coherent product roadmap.
  • Partner with engineering and applied science to test and guide new AI-powered capabilities.
  • Modernize and simplify legacy systems to ensure they scale with complex content sources.
  • Define and run early-stage rollouts of new capabilities with real internal users.
  • Use data to inform product decisions while balancing technical constraints against business goals.
  • Establish success criteria and adjust product direction based on user feedback.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of product management experience owning complex, foundational, or platform-level products for internal or B2B customers.
  • Experience building products on top of taxonomies, ontologies, or structured data models.
  • Demonstrated success modernizing or simplifying a legacy system that had grown in scope without a clear design vision.
  • Proven ability to define, launch, and measure early-stage (MVP) rollouts of new capabilities with internal stakeholder teams.
  • Demonstrated leadership working effectively with engineers, applied scientists, and cross-functional stakeholders across many teams.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to present technical, ambiguous problems to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience with AI/ML-powered products (preferred).

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