Product Manager, Live Ad Serving (Ads)

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.

We recently launched a new ad-supported tier to offer our members more choice in how they consume their content. This tier allows us to attract new members at a lower price point while also creating a compelling path for advertisers to reach deeply immersed audiences.

Additionally we are now serving ads in Live events, starting our journey in 2025 with the two most streamed NFL games in US history.

The Ads Platform team builds the advertising systems and integrations that power the delivery of ads using our world-class content delivery ecosystem. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our members’ viewing experience and drives great outcomes for advertisers. 

Our team is new and yet faced with the ambitions of building highly performant advertising systems and delivering high impact to our business by monetizing our incredible slate of content. As one of the newest entrants in the Connected TV advertising space that’s rapidly growing, we seek to build unique value propositions that differentiate Netflix from other ad-supported streaming services.

We are looking for a Product Manager in the advertising space who is excited to join us on this journey.

We’re looking for a Product Manager to help build the infrastructure needed to serve ads in Live events. In this role they will:

• Identify ad serving needs unique to Live events due to high unpredictability, massive traffic spikes, and simultaneous global delivery. 

• Design a holistic yield management approach to Live Ads across direct and indirect channels, long-term commitments and real-time bidding. 

• Work with internal product and engineering stakeholders as well as external partners across both the Live Streaming and the Ads infrastructure teams to enable seamless ad delivery for our customers.

• Manage products from concept to launch, delivering features iteratively to solve the business challenges before them.

• Define how we will measure the success and effectiveness of our products, and drive the execution and continuous evaluation of those metrics. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in sales, ad operations, marketing, strategy, policy, finance, and legal to bring products to market and increase adoption.

• 6+ years of Product Management experience with a proven record of successfully launching and scaling platforms

• Live advertising experience in either real-time bidding or ad serving domains. 

• Experience with yield optimization for a publisher across programmatic and direct sales channels, ideally with Live ad supply.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data sets and derive actionable insights to drive product decisions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Experience collaborating with Insights, Design, Engineering, Data Science, and other Product Teams.  

• Experience working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, with a strong ability to adapt to new challenges and opportunities.

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 $240,000 - $725,000.

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.

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.