Elizabeth Stone, Netflix‘s top technology executive, is now adding oversight of the streaming giant’s product teams to her purview.
Stone has been promoted to chief product and technology officer, leading Netflix’s product, engineering and data teams. She joined Netflix in 2020 to lead the company’s data and insights team, which uses research, analytics and data science to improve the user experience for members. She was named CTO in October 2023, becoming the first Netflix exec to hold that title.
Stone’s appointment to the newly created position combining CTO and chief product officer functions comes after Netflix’s previous chief product officer, Eunice Kim, left last September.
Greg Peters, co-CEO of Netflix — who himself formerly served as the company’s chief product officer — praised Stone as the “clear choice” for the expanded role.
“Elizabeth is the clear choice to lead our Product and Technology teams as we pursue big, bold priorities across Netflix,” Peters said. “Over the last six years she’s demonstrated a remarkable ability to simplify complexity, connect the dots across our business, and help teams move quickly. Under her leadership as Chief Product and Technology Officer, we’ll continue to drive innovation across the company and deliver a best-in-class experience for our members.”
Stone has a background in economics with a PhD in the discipline from Stanford (and she once worked as an equity derivatives trader at Merrill Lynch), which is unusual for a top-level tech exec. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from MIT.
Prior to Netflix, Stone was VP of science at ride-sharing company Lyft. Before that she served as chief operating officer at Nuna, a digital health company.
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