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As an Executive Producer for the Party and Puzzle Games Portfolio, you will be an operational leader in our game development process, driving strategic initiatives and ensuring excellence across a large portfolio of games. As strategic partner to the General Manager, you will work to turn the portfolio strategy into games for our players.

Drawing from deep experience in developing, operating, and publishing games, you will influence the portfolio, overall game strategy and deliver high-quality outcomes. Your role will involve managing a team of producers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement while delivering amazing game experiences to our players.

Responsibilities:

• Executive Production: Accountable for portfolio-level production excellence. You will work with the General Manager to ensure successful execution of the GM's portfolio strategy. You will focus on quality, predictability, and performance of the titles in your portfolio while considering the overall Netflix Games goals.

• Strategic Leadership: Influence and shape the overall games production strategy, leveraging your recognized industry expertise to drive the success of our portfolio.

• People Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of producers, guiding them to deliver high quality games, while maintaining healthy team culture: collaborative, transparent, motivated, committed, and focused on realistic goals. You will draw on your experience to help identify risks and mitigate them.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Build bridges to connect with strategic partners, solving complex issues across wider cross-functional teams.

• Game Expert: Subject matter expert in game development, helps ensure the game vision and feature choices align with player tastes. You should be player-focused and genuinely care about the player experience, including curiosity about player community and feedback

• Strategic Initiative Ownership: Identify and drive initiatives central to the growing success of the team, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

• Game Champion: Serve as an internal advocate for your games, crafting and presenting product updates to various audiences, providing the right level of detail and visibility into milestones and challenges to stakeholders and partners

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in Video Game Production, with expertise in Development, Publishing and LiveOps. Deep toolkit of production processes, with the judgment to select and adapt the right tools to ever-changing requirements.

• Proven success in managing large portfolios and delivering high-quality game production outcomes at various scales (from team-level to AAA) and running live games at scale to players all over the world

• Experience in Party and Puzzle Games

• Strong understanding of end-to-end game development processes, including design, programming, art, and audio.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize tasks effectively in an ever-evolving, fast-paced environment.

• Knowledge of first-party (platform-holder) processes and requirements

• Experience in managing co-dev and outsourcing partners

• Excellent communication skills for conveying complex ideas and presenting to stakeholders at all levels. Skilled at stakeholder management

• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills to assess progress and address development challenges. Uses data to help answer questions about the game, audience, and development process

• Experienced at change management, balancing 'farming for dissent' against execution

• Experience in managing project budgets and making cost-effective decisions without compromising quality.

• Knowledge of quality assurance processes and coordinating testing to ensure high standards.

• Able to manage project to quality while staying on schedule and budget

• Strong leadership and management skills to motivate teams and maintain a positive, productive environment.

• 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.

Location: Los Angeles metro area preferred. Remote OK.

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 details about our Benefits here.

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