Netflix and bill: streamer offering up to $700,000 for remote work
Fully at-home roles are increasingly hard to find among U.S. companies, but streaming giant Netflix is offering one with a six-figure salary.
It’s now over two years since the World Health Organization declared that covid-19 no longer represents a global health emergency. Remote work had become widespread during the pandemic - but in 2025, numerous major U.S. companies have ordered their employees back to the office. Notable examples include Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, AT&T and Dell.
What’s more, President Trump issued an executive order on January 20, the day he began his second term in the White House, requiring federal employees to “return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis”. (That said, many of those workers won’t be at their desks for the time being - at least - as Congress seeks a way out of the ongoing government shutdown.)
The raft of prominent return-to-the-office orders in 2025 belies a strong tendency for American firms to continue allowing at-home work, though. Indeed, per statistics compiled by the business experts at Founder Reports, 67% of U.S. companies still offer flexibility on where their employees do their jobs.
Crucially, however, Founder Reports adds that the majority of firms now only offer a hybrid arrangement, rather than 100% remote positions.
But one top company that does still appear to be embracing fully off-site roles is Netflix. Notably, the streaming giant is offering up to $700,000 a year in its search for a fully-remote artificial-intelligence (AI) product manager.
What to know about the job
Posted late last month, the AI product manager job involves overseeing Netflix’s Productivity Assistant. As explained by Fortune’s David Smith, the Productivity Assistant is a suite of AI-powered tools that the California-based streamer has introduced in the day-to-day running of the company.
“The Productivity Assistant focuses exclusively on internal operations, helping Netflix employees work more efficiently by automating repetitive tasks and eliminating manual processes that previously consumed significant employee time,” Smith says.
The AI product manager role “will play a pivotal part in shaping and executing the roadmap for our generative AI solutions designed to enhance personal, team, and organizational productivity across Netflix”, the company said in its job posting.
Netflix says candidates will need a bachelor’s degree and at least six years of product management experience. Requirements also include “proven experience building and launching generative AI solutions”.
The salary for the role is between $240,000 and $700,000. “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,” Netflix says.
According to the careers-advice specialists Glass Door, this earnings bracket is above average for the position. An AI product manager typically pockets between $154,000 and $232,000 a year, Glass Door says.
Netflix turns to AI for VFX
Netflix’s use of AI is not only in evidence behind the scenes; the technology’s impact is now visible in the shows it creates, too. In July this year, the streamer revealed that, for the first time, it had resorted to generative AI for the creation of special effects in one of its original productions.
The company’s CEO, Ted Sarandos, said AI technology had been used to depict a building-collapse sequence in the science-fiction series The Eternaut.
“That VFX [visual effects] sequence was completed 10 times faster than it could have been completed with traditional VFX tools and workflows,” Sarandos told a call with investors, per Reuters. “And also the cost of it just wouldn’t have been feasible for a show in that budget.”
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