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Salary: USD 350,000 - 700,000 / annual
Netflix is seeking an Executive Producer to lead its Games portfolio across mainstream, narrative, and new experience titles. You will serve as an operational and creative leader, managing a team of producers and driving strategic initiatives across a large portfolio of games. Reporting to the General Manager, you will translate portfolio strategy into high-quality game experiences for Netflix's 300+ million members globally.
Key responsibilities include:
• Portfolio-level production excellence: Ensure successful execution of the GM's portfolio strategy, focusing on quality, predictability, and performance of titles while advancing Netflix Games' overall goals.
• Strategic leadership: Shape games production strategy, leveraging deep industry expertise to drive portfolio success and influence company-wide game strategy.
• People leadership: Lead and mentor a team of producers, fostering a collaborative, transparent, and motivated culture. Identify and mitigate risks while guiding teams toward realistic, high-quality outcomes.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Build partnerships across strategic teams to solve complex issues and connect game development with broader Netflix initiatives.
• Game expertise: Serve as subject matter expert in game development, ensuring game vision and feature choices align with player preferences and community feedback. Maintain genuine player-focus and curiosity about player experience.
• Strategic initiatives: Identify and drive initiatives central to team growth, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Internal advocacy: Champion your games internally, crafting product updates and presenting milestones and challenges to stakeholders with appropriate visibility and detail.
You will work in a fast-paced environment managing multiple projects, balancing innovation with execution, and using data to inform decisions about game performance, audience, and development processes.
Requirements:
• 15+ years of experience in video game production, with expertise in development, publishing, and live operations.
• Deep toolkit of production processes with judgment to select and adapt tools to changing requirements.
• Proven success managing large portfolios and delivering high-quality game production at various scales (team-level to AAA) and running live games at scale globally.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end game development processes: design, programming, art, and audio.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Knowledge of first-party (platform-holder) processes and requirements.
• Experience managing co-dev and outsourcing partners.
• Excellent communication skills for conveying complex ideas to stakeholders at all levels; strong stakeholder management.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills; ability to use data to assess progress and address development challenges.
• Experience with change management, balancing dissent-farming against execution.
• Experience managing project budgets and making cost-effective decisions without compromising quality.
• Knowledge of quality assurance processes and coordinating testing for high standards.
• Ability to manage projects to quality while staying on schedule and budget.
• Strong leadership and management skills to motivate teams and maintain positive, productive environments.
• Up-to-date with industry trends, player preferences, and competitive landscape.
• Openness to feedback and adaptability to changing project requirements.
• Passion for gaming and understanding of various game genres and platforms.
