Saturday, September 12, 2015
Director Product Data Engineering & Analytics Netflix Los Gatos
Job description
As the Director of Product Analytics, you will be leading a 25+ person "think tank" for the Product organization composed of Managers, Data Engineers, Data Visualization Engineers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists. Your team will ensure that the data engineering & analytics needs of the entire Product organization are met. It will be your job to identify opportunities to shape the organization's understanding of product usage, identify the metrics used to measure product performance, and identify opportunities to improve the product. You'll be driving insight for all areas of the product - including messaging, sign-up flow, search, and content recommendations - across all device types.
What you might not know...
As a leader in our comparably small and nimble product organization you can have a tremendous impact on our over 65 million members around the world. Our culture is unique and is a key part of our approach to innovation.
Key responsibilities
Data Engineering Leadership - Help the team continue to improve their ability to deliver cutting edge data integration using cloud technologies at massive scale
Data Products Leadership - Provide vision for building highly usable reports, dashboards, and custom data products which are designed around your stakeholders needs
Analytics Leadership - Help the product organization to understand product usage and identify opportunities for improvement through descriptive & predictive analytics
Relationship Management - Develop strong relationships with the Product Managers and key partners to understand the direction of the business
Recruiting - Lead the recruiting activities for your organization, ensuring that your team consists of outstanding top performers
Mentoring - Your job will be to manage our Managers. Make them stronger leaders to enable the team's continued growth.
Experience/Skills
Well-balanced skills - People have trouble pinning you down. Both business and technical teams claim you as their own. You are equal parts technical and functional (and both are exceptionally strong), and you're equally comfortable and effective at presenting to technical or business leaders.
Experience leading teams of Engineers managing data pipelines and building analytic products for internal stakeholders. You can discuss current trends and techniques used by other companies in this space.
Comfortable with modeling & algorithms - The Netflix product is increasingly algorithmically driven, with every aspect of the experience becoming increasingly personalized. It is important you understand common model types and how algorithms are designed and implemented to create a more dynamic customer experience.
Confident and well-reasoned - You have a point of view on the direction of this area, and are willing to express and defend it in a manner that is logical and concise.
Charismatic - You are someone who can attract other high-performing individuals to work for you at Netflix.
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