Physical Production Planner, Technology

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 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.

The Opportunity:
The Production & Studio Services team at Netflix delivers comprehensive physical production solutions to enable and elevate promotional, marketing, social, and internal content. We do this by developing scalable services, systems, and workflows, while driving innovation through creative technology. We also manage essential resources, including labor and vendor solutions, internal studios, and production equipment.

In this role you will be supporting the technical operations of our productions, facilities, and equipment pipelines, developing workflows to ensure seamless facilitation of our services. You will act as a consultant and planner, and integrate new technologies and workflows into our pipelines. The ideal candidate is a forward-thinking innovator, deeply passionate about leveraging cutting-edge production technology to elevate creative work. They possess comprehensive expertise in professional production equipment and workflows and are driven by a desire to solve complex technical challenges while maintaining high quality standards. With foundational knowledge in standard cinema and photography cameras, lighting, and grip technology, they also bring experience in several of the following areas in order to forge innovative approaches to marketing production: virtual production, photogrammetry, motion capture, robotics, real-time graphics, activation, immersive capture, and cloud-based production workflows. This candidate is not only a technical expert but also an enthusiastic educator who thrives on sharing knowledge. They excel in understanding real-world applications and designing strategies that ensure successful adoption and traction. 

Responsibilities:

• Actively research emerging technologies and rigorously test new tools and workflows. Identify opportunities to integrate these innovations into the creative production process, enhancing efficiency and elevating creativity.

• Design and implement strategies for the seamless integration of new tools and technologies into existing pipelines, ensuring smooth transitions and adoption by creative teams

• Offer expert technical consultation on projects, carefully balancing practicality, budget constraints, and creative objectives to achieve optimal outcomes

• Establish and uphold quality control standards and guidelines for production equipment and technical facilities to ensure the deployment of reliable and efficient tools for productions.

• Oversee the backend technical operations process to maintain high standards of performance, organization, and safety, and supervise technical services deployed by managed partners

• Provide technical support, troubleshooting, and testing

• Ensure that technical staff are thoroughly trained on the proper deployment, utilization, and maintenance of equipment

Qualifications:

• Technical Expertise: 10+ years in a lead technical role within a technology company, internal studio, or as a set department head. Experience with standard cinema and photography cameras, lighting, and grip technology as well as multiple of the following: virtual production, live streaming, photogrammetry, motion capture, robotics, real-time graphics, immersive capture, and cloud-based production workflows.

• Communication: 10+ years in a client facing role, demonstrating exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships.

• Technical Innovation: 7+ years supporting technical research and development with a history of successfully designing and implementing new workflows and technologies

• Project Management: 5+ years managing projects from from inception to deployment and implementation, whether it is the development of a new workflow or the implementation of a new technology

• Education and Training: 5+ Experience training technical teams or leading workshops. Excels in presenting complex ideas in an engaging manner, inspiring team members to embrace new technologies.

• Bias to Action: Self motivated and able to work autonomously. Proactive about building solutions and improvements.

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 yo