Language Production Manager, English Dubbing

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.

 The Netflix Dubbing Production team is responsible for getting those amazing programs to our growing international audience. Centered around dubbing/VO production, a great team environment, and cutting-edge technology, this group is critical to Netflix’s ability to provide the best-localized experience of our great content. With this international expansion, the preservation of creative intent in the production of a localized experience is of utmost importance, what a great time to join Netflix!

As a Language Production Manager, English Dubbing, you will be responsible for how members experience English-dubbed audio, ensuring Netflix customers across the globe get the highest-quality experience from our localized audio assets. As we continue to add support for new languages and expand our global membership, providing best-in-class localized content is critical to our success.

The Role

The Language Production Manager, English Dubbing, will be the main liaison between the Netflix Dubbing team and local dubbing studios, not only overseeing the production of select titles in their respective language(s) but also ensuring a healthy production pipeline among our Dubbing vendors. The ideal candidate is an organized, strategic thinker who thrives in managing a multitude of tasks while safeguarding all title-level requirements. You will be working on Netflix's growing catalog to manage long-form project progress, creative and quality control, and the launch of all dubbed assets. Managing end-to-end dubbing includes working closely with internal and external partners to direct and/or influence outcomes even amidst ambiguity.  This is a demanding and fast-moving position that requires someone who can maintain a holistic approach while getting as tactical as necessary to deliver the content. Applicants must work across all components of Dubbing alongside in-territory teams to produce high-quality global audio assets in their language.  

Responsibilities

• Be the leading voice of dubbing production and accessibility assets in the respective dubbing market.  This team will manage multiple large-scale dubbing projects (long-form and short-form dubbing as well as accessibility assets) across a wide range of English partners and languages for Netflix original titles.

• Be the leading voice of dubbing production and accessibility assets in the respective dubbing market.

• Define standards for excellence and general creative guidelines for the respective territory/country. 

• Analyze content language trends/ performance to identify and solve localization challenges in collaboration with the Title Managers on select titles.

• Build and leverage strong relationships with the talent community in the respective territory/country. Maintain and grow existing talent databases.

• Collaborate with Dubbing Partners on dubbing talent casting and mix review on select titles, whilst enforcing adherence to creative guidelines on all dubbed titles. Influence and streamline dubbing production operations by looking for efficiency and innovative opportunities (budget awareness, scheduling, etc).

• Working closely with Global Resource Strategy to regularly evaluate vendor strategy in the territory through data and expertise.

• Accommodate and/or provide risk assessment for any special upstream localization requests in the territory.  Address, resolve, and escalate issues and concerns as needed.

• Closely monitor activities of actors unions/guilds that could influence pricing and general market behavior.

• Initiate, support, and collaborate with cross-functional partners on Inclusion and diversity initiatives to ensure our strategy is consistent across the organization.

• Be sensitive to the local competitive landscape in the respective market.

• Have a working knowledge of the dubbing contracts and local best practices between talent and Netflix’s dubbing vendors.

• Closely monitoring of activities of competitors' landscapes that could influence dubbing capacity and general market behavior.

Innovation:

• Stay updated on how technology is impacting the dubbing process acr