Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is a leading entertainment company on a mission to redefine how stories are experienced, including through gaming. They are seeking a Staff Product Designer to shape the future of game discovery on their platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create cohesive and innovative design solutions.
Responsibilities
- Develop a strong, informed design point-of-view and unify the organization through a cohesive discovery vision, demonstrating strategic thinking and creative excellence across multiple business domains
- Identify, define, and drive large-scale discovery initiatives and product features from concept through launch
- Be resilient and adaptive to shifting strategies/priorities and helping teams stay focused through change
- Shape product objectives by identifying business needs and aligning your team's work with company strategy, accounting for complexities and uncertainties within the gaming and entertainment ecosystem
- Own the end-to-end design process — from blue sky exploration to UX specs and quality UI designs — balancing polish with speed and execution
- Lead collaboration across disciplines (product, engineering, and design), ensuring seamless communication and facilitating impactful decision-making across cross-functional teams
- Mentor and elevate other designers on the team, raising the collective bar for quality, process, and strategic thinking
- Partner with insights, data science, and research to build a rigorous, evidence-based design practice — driving experimentation and evolving experiences based on member signals
- Contribute to and evolve the design system at a foundational level, ensuring discovery patterns scale across surfaces, locales, and platforms
Skills
- Proven Staff-Level Experience: 10+ years as a Product Designer (or equivalent), with a portfolio that demonstrates strategic design leadership, systems thinking, and exceptional craft on consumer-facing products at scale
- Collaboration Leadership: A track record of operating at the staff/principal level — setting design principles, building trust with cross-team, influencing without authority, co-creating solutions and driving alignment across senior cross-functional partners
- Cross-Platform Expertise: Deep experience designing for TV, Web, and/or Mobile platforms, with a sophisticated understanding of cohesive cross-device experiences and their technical constraints
- Strategic Problem-Solving: Demonstrated ability to navigate complex, ambiguous discovery and merchandising challenges within large-scale ecosystems — and to bring clarity and structure to undefined problem spaces
- Curiosity and Thirst for Growth: exploring/utilizing new tools (including AI), methods, and patterns, and sharing what you learn to improve team practices and member experiences
- Communication and Influence: Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to build alignment at the executive level and bring diverse stakeholders along on a design journey
- Craft Excellence: An exceptionally high bar for visual design, interaction quality, and user-centered thinking — paired with the ability to zoom out to strategy and zoom in to pixel-level detail
- Deep familiarity with gaming, entertainment, or media merchandising design — and a genuine passion for games
- Experience building or significantly evolving design systems at scale, with a strong understanding of the downstream impact on workflow, localization, and accessibility
- Experience designing for TV-specific interaction patterns (remote control navigation, focus management, 10-foot UI, etc.)
- Technical skills: Figma experience and working with established design systems. Experience with A/B testing and using data to inform design decisions is also advantageous
- A history of mentoring senior designers and contributing to team culture, process, and craft standards
- Comfort operating in a highly autonomous environment, driving work forward with minimal direction
Benefits
- Top-Tier Benefits: Enjoy top-of-market compensation, flexible time off, and remote work options, balanced with opportunities for in-person collaboration.
- We offer meaningful financial support for further education and professional development, in an inclusive environment where your leadership is valued and your work has real reach.
- 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.
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