Product Design Manager, Lifecycle

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and enable a team of seasoned product designers working across multiple domains, including authentication, account management, and trust experiences.
• Partner closely with cross-functional leaders across Product Management, Engineering, Research, and Data Science to shape strategy, define goals, and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Drive short-term execution and long-term vision for how members access and manage their Netflix accounts across web, mobile, and TV platforms.
• Champion operational excellence in how the team ships and iterates — balancing high craft with speed and impact.
• Influence and uphold a high craft bar with the team and deliver products rooted in consumer problems, business opportunities, and likability to launch.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Product Design experience as an individual contributor, with experience taking products from zero to one and launching experiments for consumer products with a hundred million user scale.
• 4+ years as a people/team leader leading and coaching high-performing product design teams.
• Expert experience leading and executing user access, account, and retention products in large-scale and complex architecture.
• Extensive experience working with web and native mobile products; TV UI experience is a plus.
• Experience working with test and algorithm-driven products and a deep understanding of experimentation-driven design processes.
• Top-notch design craft with the ability to rapidly ideate and produce design concepts.
• Strong communication skills to articulate and defend design decisions and make trade-offs with complex product and policy considerations.
• Ability to influence product strategies while balancing ideal visions versus business impact.

Nice to Have

• Experience with TV UI design.
• Experience working with test and algorithm-driven products.

Qualifications

• Formal educational qualifications are not explicitly specified in the description.

Benefits & Perks

• 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.
• Paid leave of absence programs.
• Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off; full-time salaried employees have immediate flexible time off.