Engineering Manager, Content Acquisition Job at Netflix in Los Gatos

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 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.

Content Acquisition Engineering works on technology to help capture deal points from inception to end. This is inclusive of all stages across the deal life cycle: commercially agreed terms that turn into papered contracts to inform development & production execution, talent relationship management (contractual aspects), financial commitments, options/contractual date tracking and compliant exploitation of our content & music rights. The structure and recording of this data enables precedent discovery, which informs future negotiations.

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

• Stakeholder management and Product thinking - Ability to manage a large team and work with multiple Product, Design, and Data science partners across four different spaces: Content Rights, Music Rights, Copyright Protection, and Business and Legal Affairs.
• Manage, mentor, and grow early career talent. Engineering fundamentals and basic coaching on best practices are a necessity.
• Develop an Engineering culture that is Product-focused, and opinionated, that connects the dots between Product opportunity and leverage across the Studio ecosystem.
• Ability to operate and drive the Product forward when our product management partners are stretched thin. This ability ensures progress and innovation even in the absence of product direction.
• Recognize key contributions from the team and partners to keep them engaged and motivated in a space that is critical for Netflix's business. The ability to elevate their work to keep leadership aware of the team's contributions and impact is crucial.
• Foster a strong accountability culture in the team and help them reliably and in a timely manner deliver their roadmap to support the needs of key business stakeholders.
• Act as a credible technical advisor to the team; help the team make thoughtful, informed decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Connect the dots across peer teams to selflessly prioritize work beyond the scope of your own domain.

What are we looking for

• Experience building and operating extremely reliable products and services used in enterprise settings supporting critical use cases, including running 24x7 on-call.
• Experience growing large (12 engineers in the organization), high-performing engineering teams.
• Ability to prioritize strategically and align the team's work with larger business goals. Have the courage to pivot based on broader impacts.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity while creating more clarity for the team.
• Ability to influence the strategic direction of partners and stakeholders.
• Strong technical background. The candidate will serve as a sounding board for technical decisions as well as be able to communicate those decisions across the organization.

Bonus Experience

• Ability to see through investments in AI work to transform Business and Legal Affairs workflows in deals, contracts & rights to surface insights, and connect the dots with adjacent systems using engineering influence.
• Experience working on applications related to Rights, Deals, Contracts, and other legal workflows.
• Experience building back-office applications for large entertainment or technology companies.
• Experience working with Contract Lifecycle Management tools.

A few more things about us:

As a team, we come from many different countries and our fields of education range from the humanities to engineering to computer science. Our team includes product managers, program managers, designers, full-stack developers, distributed systems engineers, and data scientists. Folks have the opportunity to wear different hats, should they choose to. We strongly believe this diversity has helped us build an inclusive and empathetic environment and look forward to adding your perspective to the mix!

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 $190,000 - $920,000.

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.