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.
The Role
At Netflix, we’re on a mission to entertain the world and redefine how stories are experienced. Beyond film and television, Netflix Games is creating a new category of play—unified across platforms, powered by services, and designed to unlock creativity for both developers and players alike.
We’re seeking a highly collaborative, strategic, and systems-oriented Senior Product Design Manager to lead the Games Platform Experience Design team. This team is focused on designing the game services and SDK features that enable game developers to build incredible experiences for our members—and deliver those experiences seamlessly across Netflix platforms at scale.
As the design leader for Games Platform, you’ll partner closely with engineering, product management, consumer insights, and game studios to shape the future of our developer-facing services. You’ll lead a team of high-performing designers, foster a strong product and systems design culture, and ensure we’re delivering best-in-class services that are both deeply technical and intuitive for both game developers and members.
This is a remote-friendly role (within the US, Pacific time zone preferred), with monthly travel to Los Gatos and/or Los Angeles for in-person collaboration.
About Netflix Games and the Vision for Platform Design
Our ambition is to make Netflix the most compelling place for both game developers and members by delivering platform services and SDKs that power seamless, high-quality player experiences—whether visible or behind the scenes. From social features and achievements to live service updates, every detail matters. With multiple platforms and touchpoints to support, we’re looking for leaders who can simplify complexity, bring clarity to ambiguity, and drive innovation while shipping scalable, impactful solutions.
What You Will Do
Lead and Scale a High-Impact Team: Coach and mentor a team of senior product designers working across games platform and services, fostering a strong team culture focused on craft, impact, and inclusion.
Shape Product Direction: Partner with product, engineering, consumer insights, and developer experience leadership to define the near- and medium-term strategy for games platform design.
Drive End-to-End Design for Services & SDKs: Oversee the design of tools and infrastructure that power game development, distribution, and operations on Netflix—from player identity systems to game launch frameworks.
Design for Developers, Impact Members: Champion intuitive, developer-friendly experiences that make building on Netflix easier—while ensuring those systems result in smooth, delightful member gameplay across the library.
Make Quality Decisions That Scale: Set the direction for the team by balancing speed, craft, and business impact; model how to make confident decisions in ambiguous spaces.
Champion Inclusive, Strategic Design: Ensure the team’s work aligns with the broader Games and Netflix experience, bringing a systems mindset to how game services connect with content, tooling, and user-facing experiences.
What We’re Looking For
Proven Leadership Experience: 12+ years of design experience, including 6+ years managing high-performing product design teams in technical domains.
Domain Expertise: Experience designing game platforms, developer platforms, SDKs, or services for technical audiences (e.g. game services, game dev tools, infrastructure UX, platform APIs), and consumers at scale.
Strong Product Thinking: Ability to synthesize technical requirements, user needs, and business priorities to shape the overall games platform design strategy.
Systems Design Fluency: You think in terms of systems, frameworks, and interfaces, and bring a rigorous approach to designing at scale.
Business and Team Impact: Demonstrated ability to make timely, high-quality decisions that advance both product goals and team growth.
Collaborative and Context-Driven: Comfort navigating ambiguity, guiding teams through trade-offs, and cascading context clearly across functions.
Strong Communication & Influence: Able to articulate design rationale to partners, advocate for design strategy, and cultivate strong relationships with XFN stakeholders.
Even Better If You Have…
Experience working with or adjacent to game development teams or tools.
Familiarity with live service games, backend systems, or content operations.
A background in infrastructure, dev tools, or B2B product design.
Why You’ll Love This Role
Shaping the Future: You’ll help define what a world-class game platform looks like for Netflix—and the industry.
Designing for Designers & Developers: You’ll work on challenging, meaningful problems that unlock creativity in others.
Collaborative Culture: Join a highly talented, kind, and curious team that believes great ideas can come from anywhere.
Room to Grow: We invest in our leaders—through mentorship, feedback, and opportunities to stretch.
High Autonomy, High Trust: You’ll have the freedom to chart your team’s path, with the support to execute boldly.
COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY & PAY TRANSPARENCY
At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location. The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $340,000 - $975,000. This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. 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.
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.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.