Program Manager - Product, Partnerships, & Privacy

Job Description

The Role

At Netflix, we entertain the world with our exciting content and cutting-edge technology. As a Program Manager - Product, Partnerships, and Privacy within our Investigations & Response team, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring our Customer Service (CS) is always ready, informed, and aligned with our innovative product launches. This role focuses on key areas such as Customer Trust, Account Security, Payments Fraud, and Privacy.

You will be responsible for managing a team dedicated to handling privacy-related inquiries, ensuring strategic alignment with Privacy Operations, and delivering critical insights from CS to inform product innovation. You will work closely with product teams to integrate customer feedback and lead initiatives to ensure CS readiness.

We're looking for a strategic thinker and strong leader who can seamlessly bridge the gap between Product & Engineering teams and Customer Service. This role offers opportunities for professional growth and the chance to make a significant impact on improving customer trust and security. If you're passionate about privacy, product innovation, and customer service, and you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:
• Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with Product & Engineering teams to ensure Customer Service (CS) is prepared and equipped to support new product launches and updates, with a focus on Customer Trust, Account Security, Payments Fraud, and Privacy. Use strategic thinking to anticipate potential challenges and opportunities.
• CS Insights & Product Innovation: Deliver actionable insights from Customer Service to product teams, shaping informed product innovation and development decisions. Leverage strategic thinking to identify trends and areas for improvement, particularly in areas of Customer Trust, Account Security, Payments Fraud, and Privacy.
• I&R Privacy Pod Oversight: Lead and manage the I&R Privacy Pod, overseeing a team of individual contributors focused on handling customer inquiries with privacy components. Ensure the team operates efficiently and meets its objectives through strategic planning and effective leadership. This is a people management role, requiring strong leadership and team development skills.
• Privacy Operations Alignment: Collaborate with Privacy Operations to ensure that operational and strategic priorities are aligned, fostering a unified approach to privacy issues and customer interactions.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and CS teams to ensure alignment and effective communication. Apply strategic thought to manage and balance stakeholder interests.
• CS Advocacy: Be the voice of Customer Service, ensuring their needs and feedback are represented in product discussions and decisions. Use strategic insights to influence product direction, especially in enhancing customer trust and security.
• Agent Readiness: Create and manage content for Knowledge Base (KB), Help Center (HC), News Posts, and Notifications to ensure CS agents are fully prepared and informed. Strategically plan content to address potential issues and questions.
• CS Collaboration: Facilitate collaboration between CS and other departments to ensure seamless integration and support for new initiatives. Use strategic planning to enhance cross-functional teamwork.
• Forecast Input: Provide input on forecasts to help anticipate CS needs and resource allocation based on upcoming product changes and launches. Utilize strategic thinking to predict future needs and trends.
• Impact Analysis: Conduct impact analysis to understand the effects of product changes on CS operations and customer experience. Apply strategic insights to mitigate negative impacts and enhance positive outcomes.
• Project Management: Lead and manage projects related to product launches, privacy initiatives, and other cross-functional efforts to ensure timely and successful execution. Use strategic planning to ensure projects are aligned with broader company goals.

Qualifications:
• Proven experience in program management, especially within product and customer service environments.
• 5+ years of experience managing key projects and handling high-sensitivity requests, preferably within Privacy, Compliance, Fraud, Trust and Safety, Customer Service, or similar industries.
• Strong understanding of privacy regulations and customer privacy concerns.
• Specific market knowledge and expertise in liaising at the executive level (director and above) with multiple cross-functional teams, including Product & Engineering.
• Proven track record of exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build bridges and connect the dots across multiple parts of the business to successfully advocate for a team.
• Previous direct experience in leadership-driven roles (strategy and operations, people management) is a big plus.
• Ability to fully operate autonomously and navigate organizational ambiguity while expanding the team knowledge base and footprint across undiscovered areas and on top of already established clear-cut priorities.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to review high-complexity data across multiple tools, connect the dots, and identify trends.
• Superior organizational skills, extraordinary attention to detail, and a 'challenge-the-status-quo' / 'go outside of the comfort zone' mindset that processes can always be improved.
• Self-starter and fast learner who can work independently while using impeccable judgment.
• Ability to adapt to business needs and thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities, while successfully managing multiple tasks and high-visibility projects with strict deadlines.
• Receptive to and able to appropriately give & incorporate real-time feedback.
• Possess situational awareness to identify and escalate matters that require urgent attention, while also making independent strategic decisions with limited information/context.
• Full proficiency in Google Suite, Zendesk, Asana, and/or other Customer Service software.

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 $100,000 - $350,000.

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.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.

Job is open for no less than 20 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

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