Manager, Creative Innovation

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About the Role

At Netflix, we empower storytellers to shape the future of entertainment through purposeful experimentation and thoughtful integration of new tools and methods. Our Creative Innovation team works across Studio and Product to identify, pilot, and scale emerging solutions that unlock creative potential, streamline production, and elevate the storytelling experience.

We are seeking a Manager, Creative Innovation who will play a key leadership role in architecting and executing innovation-driven production experiments, particularly in areas of new creative tooling and next-gen workflows. This position works closely with filmmakers and internal teams to bring bold ideas from pitch to prototype to production.

This is a highly collaborative, hands-on role that blends creative strategy, technical insight, and strong executional rigor. You’ll serve as a connective tissue between production, technology, and external partners, supporting filmmaker-facing innovation initiatives and working with stakeholders across Creative Innovation and Eyeline Studios to design thoughtful engagements around speculative tools and techniques.

About You

You’re a production-savvy creative leader with a strategic mindset and a bias for action. Equally fluent in storytelling and production innovation, you bring empathy, structure, and momentum to every project. Whether you're building a team from scratch, sitting with a director to map out a new creative vision, or managing a high-stakes experiment on-set, you lead with clarity, confidence, and curiosity.

You are passionate about how technology can be a partner to creativity, and you see emerging tools not as flashy novelties but as opportunities to deepen, accelerate, or unlock new kinds of storytelling. You don’t need every answer upfront; you’re energized by ambiguity and have the experience and instincts to turn vision into impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Creator-Facing Engagements: Collaborate closely with Senior Manager of Creative Innovation on all creator-facing projects, including sourcing opportunities, early meetings, building teams, and scoping. Partner directly with filmmakers and creative leadership to co-design pilots that support their vision.

• Execution of Production Innovation Pilots: Lead innovation pilots from concept to execution, aligning internal and external partners to test new technologies and services that address real production needs, while ensuring on-set success and strategic alignment with Netflix priorities.

• Partner Alignment: Collaborate closely with Eyeline Studios and Studio cross-functional teams to ensure that efforts are integrated across Netflix’s broader innovation ecosystem. Pair the right service and technology partners to each opportunity.

• Insight Capture & Synthesis: Work with Consumer Insights to capture key learnings from pilots and engagements. Translate outcomes into recommendations and share learnings with leadership stakeholders to inform future strategy and investments.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in film/TV production, creative development, or technology-driven roles supporting production innovation

• Proven success leading cross-functional teams and working directly with filmmakers and creative stakeholders

• Strong understanding of creative workflows across pre-production, production, and post, especially how new tools and services can intersect with traditional pipelines

• Excellent communicator with the ability to manage multiple stakeholder relationships and surface clear, actionable insights

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and loosely defined initiatives, with the ability to drive clarity and forward momentum

• Thoughtful approach to innovation, enthusiastic about experimentation, but grounded in what is meaningful and scalable

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering with internal and external tech teams (e.g. VFX, virtual production, AI, R&D, or platform services)

• Familiarity with strategic vendor and technology partner evaluation

• Prior involvement in creative tool R&D, emerging content formats, or new pipeline workflows with filmmakers

• Strong EQ and cultural fluency, experience collaborating with creators and teams across regions and genres

If you’re excited by the challenge of shaping how creators engage with the next era of storytelling tools, and you have the vision, production instincts, and collaborative drive to bring it to life, we’d love to hear from you.

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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.

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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Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.