Senior Content Designer, Live and Sports

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 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 Role

Netflix is seeking a Senior Content Designer for our Live XD team. The successful candidate will combine superior craft and communication skills with a passion for user experience design and entertainment. 

About the role

You’ll use language and design to help shape the future of Live programming on Netflix, including sports and must-see events. As part of a cross-functional team, you’ll test new ideas and approaches to content design that inform, educate, guide, and delight while creating business value.

About you

You love using language to create intuitive, frictionless user experiences. You have a passion for both end-to-end feature development and designing experiments focusing on different language approaches. You possess a strong desire to understand user behavior and business success through data and consumer insights, and are passionate about partnering with Globalization to make Netflix amazing around the world.

Your Skills:

• You’re a storyteller who can craft and orchestrate cohesive narratives across platforms.

• You’re comfortable with experiment design, and working closely with Designers and Product Managers to develop hypotheses and test plans.

• You use words and tone of voice to bring products to life and give interactions a brand personality.

• You’re able to flex your writing style from pithy value props to more tactical microcopy.

• You’re a systems thinker who excels at developing scalable language frameworks.

• You know how to bring a product’s voice to life in order to connect with customers.

• You communicate productively with visual thinkers and will be comfortable advocating for your point of view in our candid, feedback-driven culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• You’ll work on several projects at once, providing concepting, content strategy, and writing from early ideation through final execution.

• You understand how to rationalize UX solutions with data, improve designs through feedback, and thoughtfully question the status quo.

• You’ll initiate your own innovation projects and identify opportunities to join existing projects to elevate the quality of their work.

• You’ll partner with Design leadership to evolve Netflix’s guidelines and standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years experience writing for consumer-facing digital products.

• Ability to work autonomously and make strategic decisions independently.

• Portfolio demonstrating Content Design and user-focused product design strategy. 

• Experience designing for streaming services, live TV, and/or sports is a plus. 

• Outstanding communication, presentation, and people skills.

• Experience with a/b testing and experiments

• Ability to think critically about user journeys and content flows, and to connect the dots between them.

This is a full-time, salaried role reporting to the Content Design Manager in the Member Experience Design (XD) team.

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 $120,000-$515,000
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.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background 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.