Job Description
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.
As our slate of original productions and licensed content increases, we must scale and formalize management of studio data to meet the changing needs of the business. Now is an exciting time to join a talented, energetic team that is helping to shape operational data standards and practices for a growing studio.
We are looking for a Data Lead to join the Content Data Management team within Content & Business Products (CBP), which creates applications that drive innovation in content creation. Our team manages data quality for several large operational data sets that are used broadly across these applications. We work closely with product teams to ensure that the data is bringing value to their products while also working to improve underlying data quality through better processes, analysis, guidelines and user education.
In this role, you will lead a team focused on data related to productions. Production data is used throughout studio operations, from pitch to play, and it's critical that this information is accurate, complete and connected. In this role, you will help define, analyze and report on data quality standards to meet business requirements, devise and socialize best practices, and lead creation and execution of processes to monitor and fix data efficiently. You will work with product squads on projects related to product development while also making improvements to foundational data health.
A successful candidate will love digging into large data sets to find patterns and diagnose problems, have the agility to pivot between heads-down project execution and user-focused problem-solving, and be excited by the opportunity to be part of a growing and evolving team.
Responsibilities - Provide near-term and long-term thinking for production data needs across the studio, including data quality and data education. Create quarterly goals to meet near and long-term business objectives and lead execution of road map initiatives, including managing direct report's tasks and priorities
- Act as the primary data entity subject-matter expert broadly across the studio, consulting with other data leads, product management, engineers, designers and stakeholders on work related to production data
- Work with product management, data science, and other partners to define, create, analyze and report metrics that provide visibility into various dimensions of data quality
- Independently define and implement strategies to scale data quality work efficiently.
- Create and execute data quality projects to support product development and to improve foundational data quality, creating detailed plans that identify business impact, timelines and risks and executing on work
- Closely collaborate with Movie Data Lead on overlapping domain responsibilities and shared work
- Manage stakeholder requests and drive stakeholder alignment
- Partner with business teams to create and implement more efficient process, best data practices and instructional documentation
Qualifications - 6+ years experience working in Production or Post-Production, either working on productions or an educational background in film and television
- Strong leadership and communications skills and ability to devise, measure, and drive progress on strategic business goals
- Strong analytical skills and an ability to synthesize information across a broad ecosystem to diagnose problems and devise solutions
- Strong understanding of workflow and ability to recognize inefficiencies
- Deep understanding of content lifecycle, from pitch to play, and connected data, tasks, workflows, and teams
- Knowledge of data lifecycle and data governance concepts
- Excellent time-management and project management skills and the ability to manage timelines for multiple projects and across multiple team members
- Strong ability to communicate with empathy and clarity to technical and non-technical audiences
- Flexible in an evolving environment
- Proficiency with Google Suite and table-based applications (e.g. Excel, Airtable)
Additive Skills: - Experience with team and people management
- Experience working in data management with databases and/or content management systems
- Proficiency with SQL
- Experience working with product, engineering and customer support teams
If your experience doesn't check off every box in our list of qualifications, but you think you'd be a great addition to our team anyway, we want to hear from you!
Generally, 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 $120,000 - $515,000.
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.
Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more 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 diversity builds 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.
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