Manager, Core Ads Metric & Insights

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.
The Ads Data Science and Engineering team at Netflix’s mission is to help build the foundation of the ads business at Netflix. We conduct analyses and develop analytic tools, build predictive models and algorithms using machine learning, all with the goal of creating more choices and joy for our members. You’ll work closely with partner teams to build workflows, provide recommendations, and drive success on end-to-end analytics initiatives in this 0-to-1 space.
We are seeking an experienced Manager, Core Ads Metrics & Insights to lead and manage metric standardization, self-serve data tooling capabilities, and development of visually compelling tools to deliver needle-moving actionable insights for the Netflix Ads Tier. This critical role is responsible for the core ads metrics source of truth—obsessing about data consistency, standardization, and access. The individual will envision and lead purpose-built data tool development to deliver curated, actionable, and prescriptive insights. The ideal candidate will possess a deep track record of leading multi-disciplinary teams across a variety of data and product functions who thinks like a product owner to scale self-serve data access and insights visualization capabilities in innovative and pragmatic ways. Join our team and play a key role in shaping the future of our advertising business through data-driven insights!
Responsibilities
– Hire, inspire, and grow high-performing analytic engineers and visualization engineers.
– Lead strong partnerships with stakeholders from across the business – from product management, engineering, consumer insights, content, and strategy.
– Instill an inclusive culture that is innovative and collaborative, both within your team and in the broader organization.
– Develop a team charter and roadmap that optimizes the impact of the team and reflects evolving business needs.
– Act as an ambassador between the Product, Engineering, Strategy, and DSE teams by having a deep knowledge of how the Netflix Ads product works.
– Ensure that your team is producing consistently trustworthy and high-quality technical outputs that influence the business.
The Ideal Candidate
– Proven experience in a similar multi-disciplinary leadership role, with a strong focus on data-as-a-product solutions such as metric catalogues, self-serve data platforms, and purpose-built data visualization tools.
– Demonstrated tenacity, resilience, and leadership experience that enables you to organize and drive cross-functional projects, overcome challenges, and propose solutions.
– Be both quantitative and qualitative. You should be able to quickly assess and understand complex systems, but also have high EQ, so that you can be a product ambassador to the rest of the organization, and our business and global partners.
– You are a player-coach. You can develop roadmaps and strategies, execute technical work, and ensure that your team produces consistent, high-quality outputs.
– Superb communication skills – You must be able to cultivate strong working relationships, communicate effectively, write meticulously, and give outstanding presentations to both technical and creative audiences.
– Capacity and passion to translate business objectives into actionable analyses, and analytic results into business and product recommendations.
– A passion for TV and movies, and defining the future of entertainment.