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10 Netflix product leaders
These ten leaders hold or have held director or vice president product roles at Netflix. A reader can ask them how Netflix product teams run experiments, set priorities, and ship features to members across countries and devices.
Professionals to explore
01—10Ajay Arora
LinkedInExperience: Director, Product Innovation Growth · Netflix
Former Director, Product Innovation Growth at Netflix (2017–2021) and SVP Product Management & Engineering at The Walt Disney Company (2021–2026). The profile also lists VP Product Management at Imgur (2016–2017), Vice President, Global Product Management (Audible) at Amazon (2009–2016) and Instructor, Stanford Continuing Studies since 2019.
Andrew Thompson
LinkedInExperience: Director, Product Management · Netflix
Director, Product Management at Netflix since 2025; the profile headline places the role in Netflix Ads. Former Head of Product, New Initiative (2024–2025), Head of Product, Amazon Publisher Cloud (2022–2023) and Product Leader, Amazon Freevee (2017–2022) at Amazon.
Angela Morgenstern
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Product Content Innovation · Netflix
Former Vice President, Product Content Innovation at Netflix (2015–2023), where the profile says she helped launch Netflix Originals worldwide and scale product innovation across new audiences, formats, regions and devices. Vice President, Product at The Walt Disney Company since 2026, and former Executive Vice President, Product & Innovation at Current TV (2010–2015).
Eddy Wu
LinkedInExperience: Director, Product Innovation · Netflix
Former Director, Product Innovation at Netflix (2011–2022), where the profile describes working to measurably improve the experience of using Netflix through creativity, intuition and rigorous experimentation, and leading cross-functional teams on major product launches. Former Senior Product Manager at Intuit (2007–2011).
Lisa Leung
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Commerce Product · Netflix
Vice President, Commerce Product at Netflix since 2025, where the profile says she leads the product team driving global membership growth and monetization and is responsible for the end-to-end membership lifecycle. Former Director, Amazon Prime Membership Growth Worldwide (2022–2025) and Director, Head of Prime and Marketing Amazon UK (2019–2022) at Amazon.
Mansi Patel
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Product Merchandising and New Content Experiences · Netflix
Vice President, Product Merchandising and New Content Experiences at Netflix since 2026, Senior Director, Product Merchandising and New Content Experiences at Netflix since 2023, and Director of Product Management at Netflix since 2018. Former Senior Product Manager (2016–2018) and Product Designer, Content (2016) at Netflix.
Matt Rickard
LinkedInExperience: Director, Globalization Products · Netflix
Director, Globalization Products at Netflix since 2017, where the profile says he leads globalization efforts for live events, games and localized product experiences, using A/B testing, AI and scalable launch frameworks. Former Sr. Director, Global E-commerce at Docusign (2015–2017) and Vice President, Content at Gracenote (2012–2015).
Saki T.
LinkedInExperience: Director, Product Management, Customer Service Technology · Netflix
Director, Product Management, Customer Service Technology at Netflix since 2021, leading product vision, strategy and roadmap for the agent tools and technologies that enable Customer Service at Netflix. The profile says the role also oversees technical operations including security, system reliability, escalation and incident management.
Sean Flinn
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management, Games Platform · Netflix
Former Director of Product Management, Games Platform at Netflix (2021–2026), where the profile says he led 0-1 and 1-many product efforts to create and scale an online games platform for Netflix as part of its Games Initiative. Director, Product Management Cross Ecosystem Experiences at The Walt Disney Company since 2026.
Shobita Thomas
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · Netflix
Director of Product Management at Netflix since 2018, based in San Francisco; the profile says she leads the team responsible for building products there. Former Growth & Mobile Product Management at Coursera (2015–2018), Senior Product Manager at eBay (2011–2015) and Sr.Product Analyst at Deloitte (2010–2011).
Choose the right perspective
Pick someone whose Netflix product area matches your question, such as membership and commerce, ads, games, customer service tools or localization. Check whether their Netflix role is current or past if you need present-day practices.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Netflix decide which product ideas to A/B test, and what makes a result strong enough to ship?
- 02How do product teams at Netflix balance member experience against growth and revenue goals?
- 03How are product launches adapted for different countries, devices and languages?
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