Manager, Product Finance & Strategy - Product Merchandising

We are seeking candidates who bring strong analytical rigor, product intuition, and the ability to operate with confidence in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. The ideal candidate will have a track record of partnering directly with product managers and operational and/or creative teams, proactively identifying & conducting in-depth analyses for novel business cases, and synthesizing complex data into clear recommendations for senior leadership.

Success in this role requires comfort with ambiguity, a strong ownership mindset, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-moving environment.

This role reports to the Senior Manager of Product Merchandising, F&S. While our preference is for this role to be based in Los Angeles, we are open to it being based in Los Gatos with the expectation of regular travel to the Los Angeles office.

- Support investment decisions and roadmap prioritization related to new content types, including games, live, podcasts, and other emerging formats

- Distill large volumes of market, platform, and consumer behavior information (quantitative and qualitative) into key insights, tradeoffs, and options to guide product strategy and inform decisions

- Partner closely with product managers throughout the product development lifecycle to ensure decisions incorporate relevant business context

- Conduct competitive and market research, including external benchmarking, to inform strategy for new content formats and surface areas for product innovation and improvement

- Partner with product and data science teams to define and evolve success metrics for new content types, where standard measurement frameworks often don't yet exist

- Develop robust financial and operational models to understand the business impact of new initiatives

- Synthesize complex analyses into clear narratives (executive presentations, memos, and decision frameworks) for cross-functional partners and senior management to facilitate decision-making and disseminate information

- 8+ years of experience in highly strategic and product-facing roles

- Experience working directly with product managers or embedded in product teams; able to translate roadmap priorities into financial frameworks and earn credibility in PM-led conversations

- Strong financial acumen and comfort building models from scratch for novel business cases where prior benchmarks don't exist

- Strong proficiency with Excel / Google Sheets, Google Slides, Tableau, SQL, and emerging AI tools (e.g., Claude)

- Familiarity with streaming, media, or consumer entertainment - understanding of how emerging content types (short-form video, live events, interactive formats) differ in their unit economics and growth dynamics

- Collaborative team member with strong interpersonal skills and an ability to drive complex cross-functional outcomes

- Ability to work independently; must thrive in a fast-paced, always-changing environment

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; skilled in writing memos and preparing and delivering effective presentations to executive audiences

- Highly intellectually curious, has the courage to challenge the status quo, and exhibits the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics

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 $230,000.00 - $370,000.00.