Staff Product Designer for Netflix Games, shaping discovery experiences across TV, Web, and Mobile by guiding design strategy, systems, and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Articulate a clear design point of view and unite teams around a cohesive discovery strategy, demonstrating leadership and design excellence across multiple business domains.
- Identify and charter ambitious discovery initiatives and features, guiding them from ideation through launch.
- Remain resilient and adaptable to shifting priorities, helping teams stay focused during change.
- Define product objectives by diagnosing business needs and aligning work with Netflix's strategy, accounting for the complexities of gaming and entertainment ecosystems.
- Own end-to-end design from initial exploration to UX specs and polished UI, balancing quality with speed of delivery.
- Lead cross-disciplinary collaboration across product, engineering, and design to ensure clear communication and impactful decision-making.
- Mentor peers and elevate the design team, raising standards for quality, process, and strategic thinking.
- Partner with insights, data science, and research to cultivate an evidence-based design practice, driving experiments and iterating on member signals.
- Contribute to and evolve the design system at a foundational level, ensuring discovery patterns scale across surfaces, locales, and platforms.
Requirements
- 10+ years as a Product Designer at staff level (or equivalent) with a portfolio showing strategic design leadership, systems thinking, and craft on consumer-facing products at scale.
- Proven collaboration leadership at staff or principal level, establishing design principles, building trust across teams, influencing without authority, co-creating solutions, and aligning senior partners.
- Extensive experience designing for TV, Web, and/or Mobile with a strong sense of cross-device coherence and technical constraints.
- Ability to navigate complex, ambiguous discovery and merchandising challenges within large ecosystems, bringing clarity to undefined problem spaces.
- Curiosity about new tools and methods (including AI), sharing learnings to improve team practices and member experiences.
- Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, capable of aligning executives and diverse stakeholders around design directions.
- Exemplary craft in visual design and interaction, paired with user-centered thinking and the ability to connect strategy with pixel-level detail.
Technologies
Benefits
- Health Plans
- Mental Health support
- 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
- Paid time off (35 days annually for full-time hourly employees) for vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Flexible time off for full-time salaried employees
- Remote work options
The Role
Netflix is on a mission to entertain the world and redefine how stories are experienced. Beyond film and television, Netflix Games creates new categories of experiences that let members interact, engage, and play within the familiar Netflix environment.
The Netflix Games Product Design team seeks a visionary, systems-minded Staff Product Designer to define how members discover and engage with games, operating at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and craft. This role shapes not just individual experiences, but scalable frameworks and patterns across the platform, partnering with senior product, engineering, research, and design leaders to set direction.
This is a remote-friendly role within the United States, with a preference for the west coast, and requires onsite collaboration in Los Gatos and Los Angeles for meaningful teamwork.
About Netflix Games and our vision for discovery
The Netflix Games team aims to deliver games to millions across mobile, web, and TV. As games expand to televisions, discovery becomes critical for helping members find the right game at the right moment through smart merchandising, thoughtful design, and seamless cross-surface integration. This role will establish the strategic direction for how members discover, learn about, and fall in love with games on Netflix, while setting design foundations that scale the vision.
Even better if you have
- Strong familiarity with gaming, entertainment, or media merchandising design and a genuine passion for games.
- Experience building or evolving design systems at scale, with awareness of workflow, localization, and accessibility implications.
- Experience designing for TV specific interaction patterns such as remote navigation, focus management, and 10-foot UI.
- Proficiency with Figma and established design systems; experience with A/B testing and data-informed design is a plus.
- History of mentoring senior designers and shaping team culture, processes, and craft standards.
- Comfort operating autonomously and driving work forward with minimal direction.
Why you will love this role
- Autonomy to shape the future of games discovery at Netflix, not just execute on it.
- Collaborative culture with world-class designers, product leaders, and engineers on meaningful problems, with room to influence outcomes.
- Competitive compensation, flexible time off, and remote work options balanced with opportunities for in-person collaboration.
- Support for education and professional development in an inclusive environment where leadership is valued and work has real reach.
