Multimedia Design Lead, Live Graphics

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

About the Role

We are seeking a visionary and dynamic Creative leader to join our Live Events Team. As a Creative Director at the intersection of Experience Design and Content, you will define and champion a compelling creative vision, to shape Netflix Live Event Visuals from strategy through to execution. This role is pivotal in driving quality, maintaining alignment with the broader Netflix brand, and delivering unforgettable experiences for our members around the globe.

The Multimedia Design Lead will be responsible for working with Content and Production to establish the look and feel of packages and oversee exceptional execution of all broadcast deliverables including titles, intros, inserts, stats, scores, AR, in-venue signage and studio art direction (as needed). You will also work closely with our world-class Marketing, Brand, Social, Ad Sales, Events, Consumer Products, and User Experience teams to enable world-class, connected campaigns for consumers at every touchpoint.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the Creative Vision and Roadmap: Develop a creative vision for implementation across all functions for our live events. Your input, leadership and guidance will drive design, graphics, animation, and editorial across all functions.

Strategic Oversight and Mentorship: Offer visionary leadership and mentorship to our creative teams, empowering them to excel and innovate. This role is pivotal in nurturing talent, promoting a culture of continuous improvement, and driving the organization towards creative excellence.

Evaluation of External Capabilities: Review and evaluate the creative capabilities of 2nd and 3rd party partners as well as securing strategic long-term partnerships for creative buildout and implementation across our live events.

Designing at Scale: Develop industry-leading, best-in-class design systems. You’ll create the brand DNA that fuels the creative in our live events. The work you oversee will need to extend far beyond the event and positively impact and influence the promotional, navigational, and streaming creative.

Team Building and Sustainable Engineering: Lead teams to build scalable methods with branding, graphic systems, animation packaging and editorial graphics. 

About You

• Your deep knowledge of Live Production, creative strategy and execution has proven effective in the delivery of exceptional design and animation systems for Live content. 

• You prioritize relationships and team building to foster a culture of creativity and professional excellence.  

• You set high standards for quality, communication, and collaboration and you work comfortably across various initiatives and with diverse partners..This contributes to the advancement and success of live events and the cross-functional teams who work together to deliver them. 

• You are curious and proactively build context to deepen your understanding of stakeholder needs and your broader domain. You are proactive, results-oriented, and thrive in ambiguity. You simplify complex problems and prioritize adaptability, asking the right questions to arrive at better solutions with broader business priorities in mind. 

• You observe opportunities for sustainability, leverage, and optimization, creating design systems and workflows that lead to long-term success.

The Must-Haves

• 10+ years of professional experience working with a creative studio or media organization.

• Proven industry-leading work that drives results.

• Experience in hands-on design and creative leadership, at scale, instilling best practices in creative engineering.

• Experience in the Implementation and execution of editorial graphics for features, content packages and live-action elements.

• In-depth knowledge of graphic design, motion graphics, animation principles, compositing, and key art, including  common design principles such as typography, composition, hierarchy, and balance

• Ability to lead projects that synthesize brand D.N.A. from live events to marketing executions.

• An advanced understanding of the common behaviors of deliverables for live television.

• Comfort and experience leading teams in large-scale projects and presenting to executive leadership

• Experience in design system creation at scale across all company touchpoints

• Proven project management skills with the ability to prioritize and meet multiple deadlines.

• Proven track record of creating best-in-class animation languages that are built to endure.

• Lead teams at the departmental and project level while exemplifying company values and creative leadership.

Even Better

• Advanced knowledge of and experience in the Live sports design space, trends and an understanding of Netflix’s place in the competition

• Experience designing for streaming, and unique cross-platform experience considerations

• Experience delivering Live events globally, with regional nuances considerations.

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 $240,000 - $725,000.

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 detail about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.

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.

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