Netlify application questions — all 49, word for word
Netlify hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 49 questions, 43 of them required. 1 of them is a required, fixed-choice question about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
8 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in marketing and finance. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Netlify has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Netlify titles them, in Remote:
- Senior Demand Generation Marketing Manager
- Senior Marketing Operations Manager
- Senior Staff Data Scientist
- Your Chance to Join Our Talent Community!
- Customer Success Associate (Denver, CO)
- Finance Manager (Corporate Finance)
- Staff Product Manager (Accounts & Billing)
- Senior Financial Analyst
48 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “Do you have 5+ years of professional experience across FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, investment banking, or private equity, including several years in-house at a SaaS or usage-based business? (Internships excluded)”.
The eligibility questions
These are required, and answered from a fixed list rather than in your own words: work authorisation, visa sponsorship or security clearance. Employers often use questions like these to filter applications automatically, but Greenhouse's public data does not say whether Netlify does — so treat them as the answers most likely to matter, not as a verdict. Answer them honestly either way.
| Question | Answers accepted |
|---|---|
| Are you legally authorized to work in the country that you are located? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Are you legally authorized to work in the country that you are located? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | Yes |
| Resume/CV | file | No |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | Yes |
| Website | text | No |
| How did you hear about this job? | text | No |
| To ensure alignment with this particular team, we are seeking candidates based in the US Or Canada. Are you based in the US or Canada? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have at least 2+ years of professional experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, investment banking, or private equity (internships excluded)? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| If you are applying to a role in the US, will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status (E.G. H-1B visa status)? Yes, No |
select | No |
| If you would like to provide more work authorization context please specify below. | text | No |
| What are your pronouns? (e.g. she/her, he/him, they/them, ze/zir/hir, etc.) | text | No |
| Will you need an accommodation for your interview? Yes, No |
select | No |
| What's exciting to you about joining our team? | textarea | Yes |
| How many years of experience do you have in a Product Management role? 0 - 4 years, 5 - 7 years, 7+ years |
multiselect | Yes |
| Have you worked at a SaaS company in a PM capacity? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you owned a product area focused on billing, payments, or subscription management? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Briefly describe your most complex billing or payments product work. What made it hard? | textarea | Yes |
| Do you have 5+ years of professional experience across FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, investment banking, or private equity, including several years in-house at a SaaS or usage-based business? (Internships excluded) Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you owned an annual planning or budgeting cycle end to end, including the calendar, templates, and consolidation, rather than contributing pieces to one someone else ran? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you personally built an automation, script, or tool that reduced the time required for a recurring finance process? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you personally prepared, or directly supported the preparation of, GAAP-compliant financial statements? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you personally built a 3-statement financial model from scratch, as opposed to only updating or maintaining a model someone else originally built? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| How are you using AI in your craft? What's working (and not working) for you? | textarea | Yes |
| How many years of hands-on marketing operations experience do you have? < 5, 5-7, 8-10+ |
select | Yes |
| Have you personally built or owned the integration and attribution framework between a marketing automation platform and a CRM such as Salesforce? Yes, directly, Partnered closely, but did not own, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you personally managed high-volume email operations, including deliverability, sender/domain reputation, audience suppression, and send-volume controls? Yes, Some exposure, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you used product or behavioral data to build lifecycle programs that measurably improved activation, conversion, or revenue (not just email engagement)? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you worked in a product-led growth (PLG) or similarly high-volume self-service business where product usage/sign-up data informed marketing automation? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| What is the largest contact database you have personally operated or administered? <100k , 100k-500k, 500-1M, 1M-5M, 5M+ |
select | Yes |
| Are you comfortable being the hands-on individual contributor responsible for building and fixing these systems yourself, rather than primarily managing a team or external agency? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you personally designed or operated marketing workflows that required data to move across a marketing automation platform, CRM, and product/data systems (e.g., product database, warehouse, or analytics platform)? Yes, I designed/owned this architecture, Yes, as a hands-on contributor, Partnered with others who owned it, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you personally owned a marketing automation platform (e.g., HubSpot, Marketo, Eloqua) end to end, including workflows, lifecycle stages, segmentation, forms/lists, email operations, hygiene, and deliverability? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| To ensure alignment with this particular team, we are seeking candidates based in Denver, CO. Are you based in Denver, CO? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have any experience in a customer-facing, sales-adjacent, or relationship-management context — this can include internships, part-time work, or campus involvement, not just full-time jobs? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Are you comfortable operating without fully defined processes and figuring things out as you go, rather than following an established playbook? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you carried a quota or revenue target tied to renewals, retention, or expansion in a previous role? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you worked or collaborated across multiple teams or stakeholders before, in any setting (academic, extracurricular, or professional)? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you worked in SaaS, tech, or a similarly fast-moving industry? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Describe a fast-paced or high-pressure environment you've operated in (this could be sports, campus leadership, a job, or something else) and how you approached it. | textarea | Yes |
| Tell us about a time you figured something out or built a process with limited guidance. | textarea | Yes |
| What’s exciting to you about Netlify, and what draws you to a career in tech, customer success, or sales? | textarea | Yes |
| How many years of hands-on demand generation or performance marketing experience do you have? < 5, 5-7, 8-10+ |
select | Yes |
| Have you directly owned a paid acquisition budget at a B2B SaaS or product-led company? Yes, I owned the budget, I managed spend but someone else owned the budget, No |
select | Yes |
| How hands-on have you been in paid search, paid social, and retargeting platforms? I've run all three myself, I've run some myself, Mostly through an agency |
select | Yes |
| Have you managed an external paid media agency, including setting its performance targets? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Have you built or significantly scaled a paid program at an early stage? Yes, I built it from the ground up, Yes, I scaled an early program significantly, No, I've mainly optimized mature programs |
select | Yes |
| Have you marketed to developers or technical audiences? Yes, as a primary audience, Some exposure, No |
select | Yes |
| What's the largest monthly paid budget you've directly owned? | textarea | Yes |
| In a few sentences - tell us more about a paid channel you pulled budget from, and why. | textarea | No |
| Which best describes your current or most recent level? Senior Staff, Staff, Senior, Below Senior |
select | Yes |
| Have you owned experiments from hypothesis through the final product decision? Yes, I designed them and owned the readout and decision, I analyzed experiments others designed and/or worked closely with a technical PM, No |
select | Yes |
| Which best describes how you work with SQL and Python? I use both independently on large behavioral datasets, I'm strong in one and still building the other, Neither is part of my regular work |
select | Yes |
| Have you analyzed activation, conversion, or retention for a SaaS product? Yes, as my primary focus, Yes, alongside sales-led work, No |
select | Yes |
What it's really asking about
Grouped by what each question is for, so you can prepare the answers that repeat across employers.
| Topic | Questions |
|---|---|
| Other | 33 |
| Years of experience | 5 |
| Cover letter | 2 |
| Remote or on-site | 2 |
| Role-specific screening | 2 |
| Work authorisation | 2 |
| How you heard of them | 1 |
| Visa sponsorship | 1 |
| Voluntary diversity questions (EEOC) | 1 |
What other employers ask
The same question rarely comes out the same way twice. These employers' forms are measured the same way, from their own job boards:
Labelbox · Launchdarkly · Layerzero · Legion · Lithic · Litify
Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Netlify's asks for 43 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default. Settle the eligibility questions first — they are the ones with no room to elaborate, so knowing your answer before you start tells you whether the rest of the form is worth your time.