EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s product division has pinkslipped workers across middle management and admin divisions, Deadline has learned.
Sources familiar with the layoffs note they amount to several dozen, or less than 1% of the 6,000-employee division. The cuts are part of a reorganization, and no senior executives in the product division were let go.
The news comes in the wake of Netflix promoting their CTO, Elizabeth Stone, to Chief Product and Technology Officer on February 2. Stone’s purview now extends to the company’s product, engineering and data groups.
Netflix’s previous chief product officer, Eunice Kim, exited last September
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