Games Product Manager - Mainstream

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.

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 or playing as much as they want anytime anywhere — and can change their plans at any time.

Netflix is looking for a versatile strategic and industrious Games Product Manager to join our Mainstream Games team supporting a diverse slate of mobile and cloud titles. Our goal is to entertain the world and your job will be to help deliver on a suite of games to do just that. As a part of Netflix we strive to hire the best and value integrity excellence respect inclusion and collaboration.

As a Games Product Manager for Mainstream you will play a critical role in shaping and operating the lifecycle of a sub-section of our portfolio of games — working closely with game and production teams data scientists creative leads and cross-functional partners to drive engagement retention and long-term value. You will create experiences that feel accessible exciting and worth coming back to through defining the right feature sets systems and live service rhythms to meet both the functional and emotional needs of mainstream players.

The preferred location for this role is Los Angeles though remote work will be considered with a preference for candidates in the PST time zone who are able to travel. Travel is required for quarterly in-person onsites held at our Los Angeles or Los Gatos offices.

Responsibilities

• Partner with game development teams to ensure execution of the performance strategy for a portion of our mainstream portfolio driving towards improvements on acquisition retention engagement and repeat play.

• Partner with game developers to design and optimize player onboardingseasonal updates content refreshes etc that are scalable and repeatable.

• Leverage player behavior telemetry and observational research to improve game performance while considering how different genre audiences engage with your titles.

• Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to our games

• Collaborate with internal cross-functional teams (including production design marketing product finance data science and engineering)

• Guide game teams through the transition from launch to live service ensuring a seamless post-launch plan with clear rhythms.

• Champion experimentation learning and iteration — from UI tweaks to new gameplay modules — always with our core player and their joy at the center.

• Help ensure our games are must-play games to a diverse global audience.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product management for games or highly related role

• Experience in live service games with massive communities is strongly preferred

• Deep understanding of live game systems including content updates events progression and repeat play hooks

• Strong data fluency with a track record of using insights to drive product decisions

• Ability to think strategically and execute tactically balancing long-term roadmap with day-to-day operations

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable influencing across teams and disciplines

• Adaptability and comfort navigating ambiguity in a rapidly evolving organization

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 $190000 - $300000.

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 here .

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.