Senior Creative Producer

Posted Jan 26

Senior Creative Producer, Labs Production

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Netflix is one of the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 247 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause, and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Do you like creative experimentation and risk-taking? Challenging the creative status quo? Are you a strong communicator who brings together multiple teams while streamlining workflows to support groundbreaking work? Are you sought out by program managers, engineers, and product leaders for technical or program execution guidance beyond their scope?

On Netflix’s Product Creative Studio - Functional team, we are creative directors, creative strategists, creative producers, creative planners, data lovers, envelope pushers, and artists who partner with different teams and organizations across the company to reimagine promotional creative, through rigorous off-service and on-service testing, and identify signals for scale and productization.

The Production Planning team within the PCS Functional Team is focused on architecting, proving and enhancing promotional asset creation workflows for Product Discovery & Promotion (PDP) at large. We pair deep experience with informed curiosity to continuously challenge ours and the industry’s approach to promotional asset creation. This allows us to iteratively identify new opportunities for growth and remain responsive as the needs of the business evolve.

The Labs Production - Production Planning pod is looking for an experienced, driven, strategic Senior Creative Producer with a deep integrated creative production and project management background to lead and produce Creative Labs projects and creative work. You are a seasoned production leader. You are driven by creativity and have an entrepreneurial mindset with the ambition to build new workflows. You love a challenge and are excited to lead something you’ve never produced before. You’re a problem solver. You are always thinking about how to do things better, smarter, and more efficiently. You exude a can-do spirit. Your innovative approach to producing manifests within your teams and allows your team to do their best creative work. You are a strategist with the skills to execute. You are never afraid to roll up your sleeves to get the job done and are a pro at breaking down impossible tasks and making them possible through ingenuity, creativity, and effort.

This opportunity combines collaborating on creative strategy, project management, and large-scale team coordination in a fully autonomous environment. You hold emerging technology in high regard both for how it lends to creative excellence and also for how it can be leveraged to provide large scale production solutions. You will be part of a growing team that’s rethinking and exploring promotional creative and advertising for Netflix. The role will report to the Labs Production Manager within the Product Creative Studio, Production Planning team.

In this role you will...

Exhibit strong leadership, emotional intelligence, and business acumen in order to bring multiple departments together to accomplish a complex objective
Bridge the gap between business and creative -- acting as the “translator” between marketers and creatives, business objectives and creative output
Craft and maintain project-relevant documentation: proposals, scopes of work, production schedules, budgets, cross-functional creative socialization and outlines for scaling beyond the innovation phase.
Manage and oversee project meetings and timelines (i.e. production kick-off, weekly creative tactical, key creative reviews and milestones) related to the development of creative
Managing both the bidding process and wrap procedures with Finance Partners
Provide creative production oversight of asset quality and standards with cross-functional partners for all stages of technical builds, including editorial/functional quality assurance, delivery for localization
Oversee sourcing and screening of new freelance/vendor/contract talent by and with our internal Creative Planning team
Collaborate with the Creative Planning team to measure and track vendor/contractor performance
Manage the relationship and work, including onboarding, of creative freelancers, vendors, agencies, and contractors
Consistently connect the dots between people, teams, strategies, and initiatives
Lead setting project expectations and advocating for creative excellence throughout the production pipeline

Must-Haves...

You are a creative self-starter and problem solver who has the ability to spearhead, lead, and manage a creative project from completion to end. You are always a few steps ahead. Experience identifying risks in the project from the beginning and can create mitigation plans to prevent risks from endangering the overall production
You have deep creative production experience (studio, agency, freelance, or in-house) and with production/post-production workflows across various creative disciplines, including motion design/animation, graphic design, audio, and video editing
You have excellent communication (written and verbal skills) and are able to present ideas thoughtfully and articulately, whether to a room of business marketers or a room of designers
You have an eye for creative quality (especially as it pertains to resourcing), have an expert understanding of the creative process, and support the exploration of high creative standards
You have the ability to enable creatives and creative talent, with the simultaneous ability to strategically optimize and scale
You are endlessly, creatively curious and are constantly asking the right questions...You know quickly what you don’t know and seek to understand
You have a results-focused disposition and are cool and calm under pressure with excellent people skills.
You have no hesitation in managing difficult conversations with cross-functional partners while maintaining a collaborative dynamic
Experience navigating very different stakeholder teams (i.e. product writing and motion)
Experience managing the relationship and work between contingent workers and Netflix teams; delegating production tasks across any given project
Must be highly collaborative and able to maintain creative excellence in a fast-paced, ever-changing landscape
Must be able to multitask by managing communication on several projects in varying stages of prep or production
Must be able to easily adapt to/work with different working styles
Must be able to clearly set expectations at every level, while strategizing internal needs, workflows and staff to ensure delivery of the best work possible.
Must be confident with participating in creative brainstorms to generate ideas
Comfortable with ambiguity
Excited by new challenges, never-been-done-before work
Familiarity with tools such as Monday.com, Airtable, Google Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, and frame.io
Passion for content, art, new media and/or entertainment
Willingness to travel

Nice-to-Haves...

Strong network of freelance creative talent a plus
Experience with A/B testing

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 $150,000-$600,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

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