Studio: Netflix
Job Opening: Manager Machine Learning, Merchandising & Content Understanding
Location: Los Gatos, California, United States of America
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a team of high-performing machine learning scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, craft excellence, and inclusion.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders in Product Discovery & Promotion to learn deeply about content distribution, metadata & merchandising
- Oversee the development and integration of innovative solutions that directly empower content analyst workflows, merchandising strategy, and innovative features for our members, as well as connect them to broader use cases across Netflix
- Effectively cultivate strong partnerships with stakeholders and cross-functional partners, serving as both a key thought partner in developing strategic goals while also continuously improving our team’s ability to deliver impact in this domain
Qualifications & Skills:
- An advanced degree (MS equivalent or higher) in a quantitative or computational field is preferred
- 3+ years of relevant full-time experience in leading and managing technical teams, with a focus on machine learning and AI innovation
- Strong expertise in multimodal machine learning and generative AI, with a track record of delivering, both as a leader and an individual contributor, fully adopted solutions to (internal or external) partner organizations. Specific experience developing models to understand media content is highly desirable.
- Strong experience partnering with platform teams to enable efficient development and maintenance of ML/AI systems
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with a variety of cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- A passion for innovation and the potential of working to deliver new capabilities to creative partners
- Enthusiasm about and compatibility with Netflix culture
