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Product Manager, Forecasting (Ads)

Netflix

Netflix

Product
Los Gatos, CA, USA
USD 120k-515k / year + Equity
Posted on Oct 17, 2025

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.

We recently launched a new ad-supported tier to offer our members more choice in how they consume their content. Our new tier allows us to attract new members at a lower price point, while also creating a compelling path for advertisers to reach audiences that are deeply immersed.

Our Team:

The Ads Platform team builds the advertising systems and integrations that power the delivery of ads using our world-class content delivery ecosystem. We deliver ads in a manner that’s thoughtful of our members’ viewing experience and drives great outcomes for advertisers.

Our team is new and yet faced with the ambitions of building highly performant advertising systems and delivering high impact to our business by monetizing our incredible slate of content. As one of the newest entrants in the Connected TV advertising space that’s rapidly growing, we seek to build unique value propositions that differentiate Netflix from other ad-supported streaming services.

We are looking for a Product Manager in the advertising space who is excited to join us on this journey.

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to help drive the next phase of innovation in our Inventory and delivery forecasting platform. You will play a critical role in building inventory forecasting and simulation platforms that will enable products such as campaign planning, guaranteed delivery, pricing and network analytics.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape a large, complex problem space and directly impact our ability to deliver innovative advertising solutions at scale.

This PM will:

  • Build supply and demand forecasting modular platforms that can be leveraged by customer facing use cases

  • Help advertisers assess performance of their campaigns by building performance forecast models

  • Build ad serving simulation infrastructure that can be used for analytics, pricing and model training

  • Solve cold-start forecasting problems through modelling driven methodologies

  • Make accuracy vs feature delivery vs feature velocity tradeoffs to deliver value for the business.

  • Translate business needs into actionable product roadmaps, iteratively delivering features that address real-world challenges.

  • Establish and nurture partnerships with internal teams (engineering, design, operations, and sales), creating feedback loops to ensure our products solve their most pressing problems.

  • Define, track, and communicate clear success metrics for your product areas, using data and feedback to inform continuous improvement.

  • Evangelize the product vision and strategy across the organization, fostering a culture of open communication, collaboration, and healthy debate.

  • Embrace ambiguity and proactively identify opportunities to bring structure and clarity to evolving priorities.

We’re seeking a candidate who has:

  • 10+ years of Product Management and engineer/analytics experience with a proven record of successfully launching and scaling platforms

  • Demonstrated experience in Ad Tech, including supply-side and demand-side technologies. This includes CTV experience and familiarity with targeting, ad-serving and media planning.

  • Has worked across Software Engineering, Data analytics, advanced machine learning models and large scale simulations.

  • Has built forecasting systems in the past and has an understanding of forecasting algorithms

  • Clear understanding of technical architectures of High-scale, low-latency distributed systems.

  • Worked extensively with product and sales leaders, and built and executed product Strategies and go-to-market plans

  • Excellent communication skills; engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels, from technical teams to executives.

  • Data-driven mindset, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative insights to inform decisions and measure impact.

  • Exceptional prioritization abilities, with experience translating high-level strategy into detailed roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

  • Has familiarity with legal compliance and changing landscape of ads regulations around the world.

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 $120k - $515k.

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.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

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