Engineering Manager - Title and Launch Management

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services with over 300 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 Title and Launch Management (TLM) team is responsible for building and innovating the technology foundations that enable the ingest setup launch and global distribution of all types of entertainment on Netflix—including series movies games ads live events trailers and more. TLM acts as the bridge between the title creation lifecycle and the consumer experience ensuring that launching titles on Netflix is efficient flexible accurate and scalable. Our team’s goal is to make launching titles as seamless as possible supporting both operational and creative needs across the company.

To support Netflix’s growing content offerings and partnerships we are forming a new team within TLM to automate large-scale content ingestion replacing existing manual processes. We are developing a flexible federated system that enables efficient scalable and self-service content ingestion as Netflix grows. As a result this team will collaborate closely with many partners and stakeholders including external content partners to orchestrate ingestion validation and conformance of assets and metadata across many domains.

What you will do:

You will lead a team of software engineers to deliver high-impact results. Your responsibilities in this role:

• Serve as Netflix’s representative in discussions with external content partners’ engineering teams refining API and SLA contracts while demonstrating strong judgment to balance partner needs with Netflix’s interests and risk management.

• Partner with product managers designers engineers and other leaders to drive your team’s product vision strategy and adoption across stakeholders.

• Foster a culture of accountability ensuring timely and reliable delivery of the team’s roadmap to support business needs.

• Act as a trusted technical advisor guiding thoughtful decision-making in ambiguous situations.

• Connect the dots across teams to prioritize work beyond your immediate domain.

• Communicate complex ideas clearly and influence decisions among diverse stakeholders.

• Balance business goals with strong engineering practices investing in foundational work and continuous improvements.

• Hire coach and lead a team of Backend and UI Engineers inspiring exceptional results in stability performance and product experience.

• Build an inclusive team culture where everyone feels empowered accepted and respected.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years building and managing high-performing inclusive teams attracting top talent fostering accountability and ensuring all voices inform decisions.

• Cultivate open communication empowering team members to give feedback and recognize achievements and growth areas.

• Experience delivering and operating highly reliable enterprise-grade products and services including 24x7 on-call support.

• Strategic thinker with a strong product mindset able to define and communicate product vision and align it with organizational goals.

• Skilled at prioritizing and aligning team efforts with business objectives; have the courage to pivot based on broader impact.

• Excellent collaborator and communicator able to build strong cross-functional partnerships and influence the strategic direction of partners and stakeholders.

• Proven ability to deliver timely results on critical priorities and guide investment decisions in partnership with product and engineering leaders.

• Bring rigor to decision-making using data input and pilot investments to reduce ambiguity and confirm direction.

• Experienced in driving the adoption of KPIs and leading indicators to monitor and improve system health.

• Strong communicator with teams stakeholders and leadership including across global teams.

Nice to have:

• Experience with content ingestion systems

• Experience building distributed systems at scale

• Experience leading engineering teams with both Backend and UI/UX engineers

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 $100K - $720K.

Inclusion 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 diversitybuilds 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.