Game Director Games Studio jobs at Netflix in United States, Los Angeles

| RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as a high-responsibility service owner for a broad range of enterprise applications

• Relentlessly pursue improvements, with a keen eye for how engineering solutions reduce toil and eliminate manual tasks

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure to support our services

• Develop, test, and deploy API integrations with other platforms and web services

• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address potential issues

• Partner closely with our Product Management and Netflix Technology Experience teams to identify support-enabling tools (i.e. self-service tools to help our Support teams scale)

• Administer, manage, and configure a variety of internal tools and SaaS applications such as Google Workspace, Slack, and Zendesk

• Partner with existing internal customer teams to assess opportunities for improvement, workflow efficiencies, and engineering solutions

| WE VALUE

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make data-driven decisions

• Passion for engineering principles and developing tools and applications for impact with high quality

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment where needs shift and clearly articulate priorities and critical outcomes to your team

• Demonstrated sound judgment by taking a strategic approach to solving technical problems with a holistic view of the business impact

• Collaboration and continuous improvement are fundamental to growing the team’s impact over time

• A desire to learn and readiness to mentor others both within and outside of the team

| SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer or in a similar role

• Strong scripting and programming skills (Python, Go, Java or JavaScript/)

• Expertise administering and developing solutions for enterprise software platforms like Slack & Google Workspace

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, microservices architecture

• Experience with low-code/no-code development platforms like Workato and Okta Workflows

• Experience with incident management and response

• Experience with employee onboarding and offboarding workflows

• Excellent communication & collaboration skills and a continuous improvement mindset

• Proven ability to cultivate relationships through influence

• Proven ability to assess complex issues and implement effective solutions

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 $100,000 - $700,000.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

Art at Night School Studio

Our artists are the architects of immersive worlds, bringing our interactive stories to life. We create world-class narrative games where the visual experience is as compelling as the story. Each game boasts a unique art style that enhances its design and narrative, making every project a new adventure.

About the Job

We’re looking for an experienced, full-time Lead Artist to guide the art team toward a compelling and clear art direction for one of our game titles. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the team toward artistic excellence in collaboration with the game director and project leadership. You will both oversee project planning, resourcing and art execution with the support of the studio art director and a team of artists.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the game director, studio art director, and art team to drive and define the vision for the game. Responsible for championing the vision for art throughout development.

• Define and communicate needs, resourcing, priorities, and process to achieve a high-quality bar for art on an in-development game. Advocate for what the art team needs to be successful.

• Creates guiding pieces of art, documentation, and other resources to drive a cohesive and clear vision for the game’s art direction.

• Collaborate with the producers and game director to create and deliver high-level plans for discipline sprints, milestones, and phases.

• Delivers timely and accurate feedback to individual contributors on the project, working through the art team and other collaborators to execute the creative vision.

• Collaborate with external vendors, freelancers, and co-dev partners.

• Provides regular updates to managers and project/studio leadership to inform feedback to teammates.

• Represent art in meetings/presentations with partners with a high level of clarity and expertise.

• Provides mentorship and coaching to members of the art team, leading them both toward project success and individual skill improvement. Shares feedback and insights regularly with the studio art director and art manager.

Skills and Abilities:

• 10 years of experience crafting video game art, with 3 years as a Lead Artist or Art Director.

• Deftly navigates and leads through the uncertainty of game development and creative discovery.

• Extensive experience in illustration and/or 3d art with the proven ability to develop a unique and cohesive visual style in collaboration with others.

• Proven ability to visually solve problems in collaboration with the broader game team, including other artists, engineering leads, and design leads.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. Comfortable interacting with and presenting to all levels of the company.

• Excellent attention to detail and a strong desire to iterate and improve on processes.

• Demonstrated fundamentals of leadership, including clear and proactive communication, meeting moderation, and oversight of large cross-disciplinary initiatives.

• Ability to manage multiple competing tasks and be self-directed to meet deadlines in a quickly evolving environment with little to no supervision.

• Positive attitude and ability to receive and provide objective and constructive feedback.

• Ability to coach, manage, mitigate, and prioritize through stressful situations for you and your team.

• A strategic thinker with the ability to identify risks, opportunities, and innovations.

Generally, 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 $120,000-250,000.

Responsibilities:

• Based in our Hollywood office, reporting to the management team in Content Accounting.

• Part of the team responsible for the financial integrity of the company's content commitments, assets (capitalization), liabilities (payments), and expenses (amortization).

• Prepare and review monthly accounting entries, reconciliations, CFO metrics, and other ad hoc analyses.

• Management and accounting (in proprietary systems) of content license contracts and understanding the full cost of each produced show, with a focus on ensuring appropriate accounting by researching guidance.

• Analyze content agreements and transactions (e.g. licensing contracts, talent deals, etc.), to interpret contractual terms and understand the application of our accounting policies.

• Identify and drive process improvements and own projects such as accounting policy review.

• Manage cross-functional relationships with teams outside of Content Accounting, including those across finance and content acquisition organizations.

• As Netflix continues its content expansion, the accounting and operational complexities are also growing. There are new challenges we're facing, and there's plenty of fun we're having. Come be a part of it and help make a positive impact!

Qualities We’re Looking For:

• Fundamentals of Accounting: We'd like you to have 3+ years of experience under your belt, backed by a bachelor's degree in accounting and/or finance. While not required, it’s preferred that you are on track for completion of (or have already completed) obtaining a CPA license or a postgraduate degree.

• Attention to detail + love for data - We pride ourselves on producing high-quality work, scrutinizing important numbers and formulas for accuracy, and using spreadsheets and system data to reconcile accounts and solve problems and questions; we like our accountants to love Excel pivot tables and be unphased by large data sets.

• Enthusiasm and quick learning - Enthusiasm for designing and building new accounting systems and making improvements to existing systems. Prior work with contract review (revenue, leases, or other complex documents), data entry and analysis, research, and other problem-solving tasks is helpful, but we understand you probably have never done content accounting. That’s OK with us because we’ll teach you as long as you’re excited about learning.

• Curiosity and passion - Our team members ask probing questions, challenge the status quo, make changes to improve processes, and have fun while doing it all; a positive attitude and never settling for “good enough” is key, along with adding to our unique company culture.

• You have strong communication skills (both written and oral) and are viewed as a strong cross-functional business partner. You should also have a strong accounting background and be comfortable navigating technical accounting guidance.

• Collaborate inclusively - Partner with team members and authentically recognize, understand, and appreciate differences, and connect across these differences by being mutually adaptive.

• Adaptable—You must be comfortable with an ever-changing ecosystem of content, finance, and accounting issues and projects.

• You embrace and advocate the Netflix culture and our long-term view.

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 $50,000 - $240,000.

Art at Night School Studio

Our artists are the architects of immersive worlds, bringing our interactive stories to life. We create world-class narrative games where the visual experience is as compelling as the story. Each game boasts a unique art style that enhances its design and narrative, making every project a new adventure.

About the Job

We’re looking for an experienced, full-time Lead Artist to guide the art team toward a compelling and clear art direction for one of our game titles. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the team toward artistic excellence in collaboration with the game director and project leadership. You will both oversee project planning, resourcing and art execution with the support of the studio art director and a team of artists.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the game director, studio art director, and art team to drive and define the vision for the game. Responsible for championing the vision for art throughout development.

• Define and communicate needs, resourcing, priorities, and process to achieve a high-quality bar for art on an in-development game. Advocate for what the art team needs to be successful.

• Creates guiding pieces of art, documentation, and other resources to drive a cohesive and clear vision for the game’s art direction.

• Collaborate with the producers and game director to create and deliver high-level plans for discipline sprints, milestones, and phases.

• Delivers timely and accurate feedback to individual contributors on the project, working through the art team and other collaborators to execute the creative vision.

• Collaborate with external vendors, freelancers, and co-dev partners.

• Provides regular updates to managers and project/studio leadership to inform feedback to teammates.

• Represent art in meetings/presentations with partners with a high level of clarity and expertise.

• Provides mentorship and coaching to members of the art team, leading them both toward project success and individual skill improvement. Shares feedback and insights regularly with the studio art director and art manager.

Skills and Abilities:

• 10 years of experience crafting video game art, with 3 years as a Lead Artist or Art Director.

• Deftly navigates and leads through the uncertainty of game development and creative discovery.

• Extensive experience in illustration and/or 3d art with the proven ability to develop a unique and cohesive visual style in collaboration with others.

• Proven ability to visually solve problems in collaboration with the broader game team, including other artists, engineering leads, and design leads.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. Comfortable interacting with and presenting to all levels of the company.

• Excellent attention to detail and a strong desire to iterate and improve on processes.

• Demonstrated fundamentals of leadership, including clear and proactive communication, meeting moderation, and oversight of large cross-disciplinary initiatives.

• Ability to manage multiple competing tasks and be self-directed to meet deadlines in a quickly evolving environment with little to no supervision.

• Positive attitude and ability to receive and provide objective and constructive feedback.

• Ability to coach, manage, mitigate, and prioritize through stressful situations for you and your team.

• A strategic thinker with the ability to identify risks, opportunities, and innovations.

Generally, 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 $120,000-250,000.

As the Director of Creative, you will work cross-functionally with the Attractions and House teams to ideate and design new IP-based projects, helping to creatively lead projects from concept through design, to opening day and beyond. You will lead an in-house team of designers and creatives, build creative briefs that extend Netflix stories in innovative ways and help shape our portfolio of attractions to ensure they deliver authentic and loved moments for fans.

What you will do:

• Lead a team of in-house designers and external vendors to execute the broader creative strategy and design development across a portfolio of experiences

• Ideate new projects and play a key role in blue sky, concept design phases, in collaboration with producers and Experiences leadership team

• Lead charettes, brainstorms and determine the look and feel for new concepts and create detailed creative briefs for external agencies and cross-functional partners (Marketing, Content, Brand Partnerships, Consumer Products, etc.)

• Assist the project lead in keeping the project on the right track creatively, by providing Creative intent reference materials, commenting on design packages, outlines, scripts, layouts and illustrations during all design phases

• Adjust graphics, drawings or 3D models in order to best communicate conceptual vision and design direction to our creative vendors when necessary

• Oversee in-progress design of all projects such as reviewing and redlining design packages, material boards, visiting fabrication vendors, etc

• Be onsite to oversee creative excellence during the build and test & adjust phase during installation

• Benchmark new and existing attractions, visit relevant trade shows and attend seminars to always be on the forefront of innovation and new directions for our industry

What we need from you:

• Demonstrated, 12+ years of creative design experience in the Location Based Entertainment industry, with a strong combination of practical field and leadership experience

• Ability to champion Creative integrity while balancing speed-to-market and business goals

• Strong experience in art direction, concept design, environmental design, graphic design and/or creative direction, that has resulted in a body of best-in-class creative & experiential projects

• A portfolio of diverse and different project types showcasing a desire to try out new things

• Experience managing and developing direct reports in an environment that embraces individual momentum

• Strong knowledge of digital design tools such as Sketch Up, Maya, Blender, Revit, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. (note: we’re not bound to a specific program)

• Demonstrated illustration skills, and/or ability to draw spatial layouts/elevations

• Expert knowledge of both permanent and touring experiences

• Ability to make difficult (yet informed) decisions, always in the best interest of Netflix

• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and digitally

• Excellent organizing skills using digital tools and Google suite

• Global experience preferred

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 $380,000 - $825,000.

Responsibilities

• Support permitting, regulatory, and compliance requirements for Netflix projects, including land use, environmental permitting, transportation permitting, and state and local tax issues. This position will work closely with Netflix's real estate, construction, and studio management teams.

• Drive positive community engagement around Netflix projects by building local alliances with key stakeholders, including elected officials, community groups, non-profits, chambers of commerce, and other business groups.

• Bring value to our local communities through targeted sponsorships and employee participation. This role will help identify and engage with the local programs that can best benefit our local communities.

• Cultivate and maintain relationships with state and local officials, including participating in local legislative hearings and local stakeholder meetings. Key states for this effort include California, New Jersey, New York, and New Mexico. Part of this responsibility will include hosting community screenings and other events.

• Help guide Netflix's local workforce training initiatives towards building a pipeline of skilled workers in key markets.

• Leverage data to create local economic and community impact assessments and drive local stakeholder support.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in government or public policy.

• A deep understanding of the state and local regulatory process.

• Past success in bringing large capex projects to fruition.

• Experience in working with local permitting and regulatory agencies.

• Proven track record in supporting communities through corporate engagement.

• Skilled advocate with a keen ability to build relationships with diverse groups.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and persuasively.

• Experience working with or within studios, technology companies, regulatory or governmental agencies, or industry associations is helpful but not necessary.

• Willingness to travel.

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 $400,000-$700,000.

In this role, you will need to be a self-starter, an analytical thought partner with a keen eye for detail, and have proven skills and experiences as a cross-functional partner. You must thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, and embrace ambiguity. You must be an expert communicator who is able to convey complex ideas using both qualitative and quantitative means to effectively work with a broad spectrum of stakeholders.

The position is based in our Los Angeles office.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Preparing quantitative analyses (model building, scenario testing, forecasting) to support portfolio performance tracking and strategy

• Developing insightful presentations that summarize key data, identify underlying trends, and ultimately result in actionable strategic recommendations.

• Conducting market research and competitive trends analyses and summarizing them for a senior executive-level audience.

• Working cross-functionally with our Data Science & Engineering and Consumer Insights teams to develop new metrics and track them through dashboarding and reporting.

• Collaborating directly with top leaders in the Games organization: expertly delivering on their requests, translating their high-level thoughts into actionable strategies with measurable goals, and assisting in socializing these strategies and coordinating execution across a diverse set of stakeholders.

• Netflix Games is fast-growing with a flat organizational structure, which means that employees are often asked to perform tasks with a range of difficulties. You must be motivated, disciplined, and able to work effectively autonomously.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 2-5 years of work experience in a highly analytical role, ideally in management consulting, investment banking, or in a strategy & operations-focused role at a top-tier gaming or technology company.

• Any experience working specifically in games is a plus.

• Strong passion for games, Netflix IP and the entertainment industry at large.

• Experience conducting quantitative analyses (including modeling) and qualitative analyses that can drive insights and results.

• Excellent communication/presentation skills with a track record of presenting complex analyses to senior management clearly and concisely.

• Strong initiative and ability to work independently; must thrive in a fast-paced, always-changing environment.

• Highly intellectually curious, has the courage to challenge the status quo, and exhibits the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics.

• Bachelor's degree with an emphasis on coursework of a quantitative nature, preferably Business, Economics,Statistics, or Engineering

• Excellent proficiency with MS Excel / PowerPoint (and ideally their Google Suite counterparts)

• Nice to have: Experience with Tableau, SQL, data.ai/Sensor Towe

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 $50,000-240,000.