Manager, Finance and Strategy - Open Connect
Netflix
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.
Netflix is revolutionizing the media and entertainment industry. Underpinning this revolution are ground-breaking efforts in technology infrastructure—Cloud Infrastructure and Open Connect Content Delivery—that catalyze Netflix’s success.
We are looking for a Manager to join the Finance and Strategy (F&S) team. You will be partnering with senior leaders in the Engineering organization to assess strategic initiatives, develop actionable insights, and drive operational analytics. This role will work with the Open Connect team, which is responsible for efficiently scaling one of the world’s largest Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that serves a large portion of the internet’s traffic at peak. Open Connect sits at the intersection of all our content delivery efforts, including Live, SVOD, Games, and Ads.
This is an individual contributor role that is expected to operate at a senior level, presenting to and leading strategy discussions with Open Connect leadership, and running cross-functional projects/teams composed of engineers, capacity planners, and data scientists. This role will report to the Director of Product Strategy and Analysis and is based out of our Los Gatos, CA office.
Responsibilities:
Partner with engineering stakeholders to help identify, prioritize, and assess the impact of infrastructure decisions.
Partner with our Data Science & Engineering teams to develop tools for forecasting, analytics, and dashboarding.
Create business cases to inform key investment decisions and present to Open Connect leadership.
Define and track key operational metrics that have an impact on overall business metrics.
Develop and track key metrics to measure success, understand and educate leadership on how key investment decisions impact metrics.
Set long-term goals on how the infrastructure investments will scale over time, and create a set of efficiency initiatives to reach those goals.
Occasionally perform CDN-related market research to understand trends and best practices.
Qualifications:
7-10 years of experience, ideally in management consulting or a similar field and/or a tech company in a strategy / analytical role. We are looking for candidates who have worked in a highly demanding environment in which complex modeling and analysis are performed.
Must be highly analytical, possess strategic thinking, and be a strong, effective communicator with both technical & non-technical senior stakeholders.
Must thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, focus on generating results, and exhibit the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics.
Must be motivated, disciplined, flexible, and be able to work effectively autonomously.
Expert working knowledge of Excel and the ability to quickly learn internal tools; working knowledge of visualization tools (i.e. Tableau).
Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis on coursework of a quantitative nature (e.g. engineering/computer science, mathematics, or other relevant fields)
Understanding of on-prem / cloud infrastructure and its components including storage, networking and compute is preferred.
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 $160,000 - $470,000.
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.
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