Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Netflix is a global entertainment company that is seeking a Senior Product Designer for their Data Platform. The role involves shaping the next generation of data movement and online data store experiences, collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance productivity and streamline customer experiences.
Responsibilities
- Shape and own design for ODS and movement platform; creating intuitive workflows that enhance data practitioner and software engineer productivity and delight
- Contribute to and help drive adoption of patterns and components for operational, data‑dense UIs (runs, pipelines, lineage, diffs) that scale across the platform
- Identify opportunities for innovation through research, incident analysis, and technical insight; sequence delivery for measurable impact
- Create cohesive, end‑to‑end experiences with guardrails over gates (paved paths, templates, defaults) to reduce errors
- Partner with product and engineering to define and improve how we measure experiences
- Anticipate emerging needs and help frame design problems early
- Drive end‑to‑end design for interdependent workflows
- Craft and validate prototypes that effectively communicate solutions
- Establish scalable design practices and foundational patterns
- Scope and negotiate realistic deliverables with partners
- Mentor designers and partner teams; help grow shared understanding and adoption of effective design practices
- Co‑create strategy with product and engineering leadership to drive critical initiatives for your product area
- Facilitate workshops with technical stakeholders; build consensus on implementation, trade‑offs, and sequencing
- Articulate compelling design solutions and decision rationale to senior leadership, connecting technical challenges to business outcomes
- Lead through influence across teams to ensure coherent, cross‑surface experiences (UI, IDE/CLI, APIs)
Skills
- 5+ years as a Product Designer (or equivalent experience)
- Experience designing orchestration and/or data movement tools, databases, developer/data platform tools, or analogous complex technical products
- Strong portfolio showing system-level product work and the impact of your design leadership, including initiatives that span multiple teams
- Proven track record of leading design initiatives from concept to launch
- Proficient in design tools (Figma, etc.) and prototyping technologies
- Strong systems thinking and ability to design scalable solutions for complex data/analytics challenges
- Successfully led design strategy for complex technical products
- Proven track record of influencing and aligning cross-functional partners without direct authority
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, create clarity, and move complex initiatives forward with partners
- Excellence in communicating design decisions to technical audiences
- Demonstrated success in mentoring designers and improving team practices
- Strong ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives independently
- Skill in sequencing and communicating long-term vision through incremental steps
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers (coding skills not required)
- Literacy in data/analytics and software engineering workflows (e.g., Git‑ and DSL/YAML‑based config with tests, docs, CI, pre‑commit validation); empathy for code‑first users in IDE/CLI
- Fluency in orchestration and data movement: pipelines/DAGs (dependency graphs), runs/retries/backfills, streaming (e.g., Kafka/Flink/Spark), CDC/replication, and Zero ETL
- Familiarity with online data stores (e.g., key‑value, search, relational, caching) and integration with analytical destinations (e.g., Apache Iceberg), including TTL and consistency considerations
- Strength designing data‑dense, system‑oriented interfaces (lineage/dependency graphs, run trees, schema diffs) with embedded trust signals (freshness, status, ownership, change history, SLO/SLA)
- Understanding of permissions/entitlements, data contracts, and compliance constraints and their UX implications
- Applied AI/ML‑enhanced experiences a plus (e.g., conversational queries, guided analysis)
Benefits
- 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
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- 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
Company Overview
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.netflix.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Netflix has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 65 in 2026, 310 in 2025, 309 in 2024, 191 in 2023, 261 in 2022, 268 in 2021, 225 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.