Technology Systems Operations Specialist - Vfx Support jobs at Netflix in United States, Los Angeles

Responsibilities

• Lead the team designing and deploying our broadcast infrastructure and broadcast operations centers.

• Collaborate with Broadcast Operations, Broadcast Systems, Production, and partners to support live broadcasts.

• Evaluate and guide decisions on IP and new technologies, including cloud and remote productions.

• Develop detailed technical documentation, including schematics, system designs, and user manuals.

• Manage project budgets, cost estimates, and timelines while overseeing multiple projects.

• Maintain production and technical infrastructures, including equipment, content management, and communication systems.

• Experience in reviewing and managing contracts with third-party providers to ensure deliverables

• Design, commission, and implement AV systems, integrating cutting-edge technologies to enhance performance.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors, stakeholders, and partners to ensure effective collaboration and the success of Netflix's live projects, including managing broadcast, master control, and distribution needs.

• Ability to analyze and evaluate vendor proposals and pricing structures to ensure alignment with Netflix's financial objectives.

• Represent Netflix in live production-focused partnerships, fostering productive relationships to support project success and drive new developments. Able to design SLA and partnership strategies.

• Strong negotiation skills to secure favorable terms that align with Netflix's goals and budget constraints. Ability to advocate effectively for Netflix's interests while maintaining positive vendor relationships.

• Act as the escalation point for live event technical issues, supporting high-profile events.

• Identify opportunities for technical and operational efficiencies throughout the broadcast airchain, pursuing solutions from the discovery and project planning phases through to implementation. Evaluate and guide decisions on IP and new technologies, including cloud and remote productions.

• Be able to work with flexible hours based on the live events schedule.

• Some travel will be required to support Netflix’s live technical systems and live events, including weekends and holidays.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in management or supervisory roles in Broadcast Engineering.

• Proven experience in designing and maintaining IP-based and virtualized workflows, facilities, and modern broadcast core technologies such as ST-2110 and NMOS, PTP, JPEG-XS, UHD and HDR workflows, SRT, AVC/HEVC, and Zixi.

• Advanced knowledge of networking fundamentals and IP-based workflows.

• Experience with routing platforms for video, media workflow, video transport, and delivery.

• Understanding of ASI, Baseband video signal workflows, and SMPTE standards.

• Familiarity with transport mediums such as private fiber networks, WAN, Satellite, Cellular Bonding, LEO, etc.

• Deep expertise in broadcast workflow technology and concepts surrounding transmission and contribution feeds, routing, format validation and conversion, closed captioning, SCTE104/35, playout, record, storage, intercom, and monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies and solutions.

• Communicate clearly and effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, including end users, developers, engineers, and executives, both internally and externally.

• Successfully manage multiple long-term projects from start to finish, including coordination with third-party vendors.

• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Work independently and think creatively to solve problems.

• Be willing to travel and work flexible hours, including shifts and weekends.

• Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify issues and implement effective solutions under pressure.

Nice-to-Have

• Ability to assemble and operate studio, post, and on-air production systems.

• Networking and broadcast industry certifications (CompTIA Network+, Arista/Cisco technology, SBE certifications, AVIXA CTS, etc)

• Expertise in AWS, command line operations (Linux/Windows), and open-source multimedia frameworks.

• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure

• Experience with at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python)

• Experience in Unix (or Unix-based systems), shell scripting, and good SQL knowledge

• Experience with web technologies and distributed systems with microservices architecture

A successful candidate will be self-motivated, quick-thinking, flexible, able to pivot when necessary, thorough, and capable of juggling multiple and diverse responsibilities with a strong emphasis on organization and an unwavering attention to detail at all times. This is a demanding and fast-moving position requiring someone who is a proactive and quick thinker that is able to exercise good judgment and excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Director, VFXS to identify and strategize on the use of emerging technologies and vendor insights, crafting impactful initiatives for Netflix productions

• Develop engagement models for VFX vendors, talent, and emerging VFX technologies to foster collaboration and innovation

• Develop strategic framework to guide decision-making on key Studio initiatives by conducting analysis of key business drivers, trends and performance indicators

• Prepare valuation analyses (model building, scenario planning, etc.) to support strategic initiative proposals

• Consultant on high-priority global VFX projects, advising on critical production changes and providing curated solutions to maximize vendor effectiveness and minimize slate risk

• Lead a team responsible for key VFX Data and Intelligence Initiatives, optimizing the execution of Global Vendor Management

• Partner with VFXS Data Analyst to establish and maintain a robust data foundation, enabling efficient vendor analysis, data-driven decision-making, and automation

• Empower the VFX Vendor Management Specialist to spearhead initiatives that gather market intelligence and enhance solutions for production, providing a strategic edge for the VFXS team

• Serve as an ambassador for VFX Services globally, communicating our strategic value to stakeholders and cross functional partners

Qualifications

• Strong business strategy skills; able to aggregate multiple sources (business, finance etc) to craft proposals

• Domain knowledge of VFX concepts, practices, and procedures

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities, with demonstrated ability to work effectively across cross functional and cross cultural domains

• Proficient project management skills with a proven track record of articulating business needs, problem-solving production challenges, and delivering creative solutions while upholding team/department standards

• Familiarity with VFX trends and emerging technology, with the ability to assess impact on creative, budget, and schedule. Essentially matchmaking new tech benefits to creatively

• solution for productions

• 10+ years of experience in VFX production management roles, ideally within a studio, production company, or specialized boutique VFX studios

• Strategic experience of expanding networks and knowledge of VFX vendors

• Interest in gaining working knowledge of VFX software and tools

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 $160,000 - $360,000.

In this role, you will:

• Leverage causal inference methods or statistically sound analyses to drive actionable insights and help shape our understanding of how product, content and algorithms influence member experience.

• Build metrics and measurement frameworks that are statistically and causally robust to empower decision-making for stakeholders and product features that can deliver member joy.

• Establish strong partnerships with team members and diverse stakeholders across the business.

• Facilitate ownership and accountability by ensuring that the team is producing trustworthy and high-quality outputs that influence the decisions and direction of a variety of areas of Netflix.

• Proactively explore trends in member engagement to surface future opportunities.

• Work independently and drive your own projects.

To be successful in this role, you have:

• An advanced degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

• 5+ years of relevant experience in one or more data science roles.

• Expertise in statistical analysis methods, most notably regression analysis, causal inference, statistical learning and experimentation methods.

• Strong data manipulation and quantitative programming skills in SQL, R and/or Python.

• Exceptional communication with technical and non-technical audiences; highly effective at developing meaningful stakeholder relationships and deep domain expertise.

• Comfort with ambiguity; ability to thrive with minimal oversight and process.

• Embodies thewhile bringing a new perspective to continue improving our culture.

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 $170,000 - $720,000.

We are looking for exceptional individuals to work full-time with us as research scientists. In this role, you will conduct applied research by conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and validating potential algorithmic improvements. This includes researching and applying cutting edge machine learning algorithms, running offline experiments, and building online A/B tests to run in production systems. To be successful in this role, you need a strong machine learning background, solid software development skills, a love of learning, a passion for solving end-user problems and to collaborate well in multi-disciplinary teams. You will need to exhibit strong communication and leadership skills, an ability to handle ambiguity and set priorities, and an execution focus in a dynamic environment.
What we are looking for:

• A burning desire to solve real-world problems at scale by applying Machine Learning.
• PhD or Masters in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of applied research experience with a track record of delivering quality results.
• Experience in applied research in industrial settings.
• Expertise in machine learning spanning supervised, self-supervised, and bandit learning methods.
• Strong mathematical and problem-solving skills with knowledge of statistical methods.
• Excellent software engineering skills in Python along with Scala or Java or C++ or C#.
• Experience in one or more of the following applied fields: Recommendations, Personalization, long-term reward modeling, Bandits, Transformers.
• Great interpersonal skills including strong written and verbal communication.

Preferred, but not required:

• Experience as a technical leader.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in one or more of Search, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, Conversational Agents, Personalization, and Causal Inference, Reinforcement Learning, etc.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms and large web-scale distributed systems.
• Open source contributions.
• Research publications at peer reviewed journals and conferences on relevant topics.

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 - $720,000.

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

Responsibilities

• Perform financial scenario analysis to support strategic decision-making

• Build insightful and actionable management reporting packages and summarize data for finance leadership in an efficient and effective way

• Manage and streamline forecasting models and consolidation processes

• Provide tooling and metrics to drive headcount and org planning discussions

• Partner with stakeholders, HR, and TA partners to own the headcount forecasting process

• Work with FP&A and Accounting partners to improve forecast accuracy and planning process

• Help identify and drive FP&A-wide process improvements through close collaboration with peers

• Drive communications and alignment with local and regional FP&A teams

• Assist with ad hoc reporting and analytical projects

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a highly analytical environment, preferably in a management consulting firm or FP&A/Strategic Finance at a large company

• Extremely proficient with Excel/Sheets and Powerpoint/Slides

• Extensive experience conducting quantitative/financial analysis and developing recommendations

• A successful candidate will have a strong track record of identifying key questions; defining, performing and coordinating analyses; and communicating findings in a clear and concise way

• Ability to connect the dots and see the bigger picture

• Previous experience working with financial and/or headcount-related data

• Experience working with complex data sets and systems–TM1 and Anaplan knowledge a plus

• Genuine passion and excitement for Netflix’s unique

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.

Responsibilities:

• Be an embedded business partner for our Studio Services teams

• Ensure the operational excellence of the Finance Procurement Operations team and systems supporting the goals of our stakeholders

• Driving projects that help to simplify and automate manual workflows. Actively participate in system features development and user acceptance testing.

• Partner closely with the business and legal to support supplier sourcing decisions and contract reviews and renewals to build a resilient and diverse supply chain that keeps pace with the evolving needs of our business

• Own finance-related tasks (supplier sourcing, reviewing contracts, creating and reviewing purchase orders, facilitating change orders, reviewing invoices, supplier management, management reporting, etc.) that drive financial accuracy

• Own the month-end accrual process and partner with the operations accounting team to address any significant period over period variances in spend

• Ensure accurate coding of expenses to provide meaningful reporting, help track actuals to budget/forecast and communicate any expected variances

• Review trends in invoicing volume and partner with the accounts payable team to the volume of non-PO and manual invoices, non-OCR invoices, etc.

• Identify process gaps and drive projects to simplify and automate finance and payment workflows

• Perform other duties and ad hoc tasks contributing to the organization’s goals

Requirements:

• You exemplify our Netflix Culture

• Minimum 5 years partnering with Studio Services teams or other similar fast-paced functions in a Finance/Accounting role with a working knowledge of US GAAP accounting frameworks

• Experience in working with a high volume of key stakeholders and building strong working relationships

• Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy in preparing and entering financial information

• You are a service-oriented person who focuses on quality communication and attention to detail

• Deep knowledge and understanding of the Source-to-Pay process workflow, including supplier sourcing, contract reviews, and procure-to-pay process

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Extra dose of awesome if you have:

• Experience working with a shared services center in different regions

• ERP and Sourcing systems experience with Workday Financials and Tableau

• Experience working in Entertainment and or Tech Industries

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA and/or CPA

• Experience integrating AI-driven insights or automation tools to enhance financial workflows, optimize vendor selection, or improve studio spend efficiency.

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 $60,000- $240,000.

• Be part of the Campaign Management team that is responsible for partnering with the Account Management team on revenue optimization and campaign activation activities while providing white glove service to our clients

• Partner with Account Managers and vendor partners on key campaign activities inclusive of campaign packaging and asset readiness, timely campaign launches, delivery & optimization, and client reporting

• Partner with external vendors to ensure timely day-to-day support, load balancing, and alignment with the Account Management team to best service our clients

• Troubleshoot and escalate campaign issues for Account Managers and coordinate issue resolution with AdOps

• Partner with Campaign Management Leads to coordinate workflow enhancements between Account Management and Ad Ops

• Monitor vendor performance and task queue ensuring quick and accurate campaign deliverables

• Review daily delivery metrics across Direct IO and Programmatic campaigns and suggest campaign optimizations.

• Coordinate user feedback and suggest enhancements to Ad Ops for efficiency improvements.

• Maintain current training documentation updated throughout the lifecycle of the material

• 5+ years of Ad Tech and/or Ad Operations experience supporting Account Management, Sales, Ads Policy/Quality, or Product/Engineering Teams

• Well-versed in Campaign Trafficking and Execution, including Order and Creative trafficking, Quality Control, Campaign monitoring, pacing, troubleshooting, billing, and reconciliation

• Experience supporting Direct IO, Programmatic Guaranteed and PMP deal types

• A background in Advertising Systems and Tools (CRM, OMS, DSPs, Ad Servers, Task Management, Reporting, etc.)

• Comfortable working with cross-functional teams, including Account Management, Ad Ops, Ads Policy, Product, and Engineering

• Experience interacting with outsourced vendors and managing the vendor's tasks of campaign setup and management, including but not limited to deal set up, trafficking, QC, and reporting

• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and willingness to pivot as needed

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and exceptional attention to detail

• Fluent in English, additional languages are a plus

• Experience supporting multiple regions and timezones

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 $70,000 - $420,000.