Language Producer, Global English - Content Localization

Netflix•Los Angeles, CA

14d•$132,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Language Producer for Global English Content Localization is accountable for how members experience English-language localized audio, timed text, and marketing assets. The role serves as the main liaison between Netflix and local dubbing, timed-text, and marketing localization vendors, and is the execution arm of partner strategy. It focuses on language and partner health, quality at scale, and culturally resonant English localization for customers worldwide. The position is approximately 60% partner ecosystem management and 40% tiered engagement with selected high-priority titles and assets. The Language Producer develops vendor relationships, talent pipelines, training, and feedback loops, while directly engaging where judgment is most valuable, such as popular titles, language expansion, new formats, and systemic quality issues. Partners handle day-to-day execution, with the Language Producer providing direction, building capability, and stepping in as needed. The role spans dubbing, timed text, and marketing localization and works with in-territory and cross-functional teams. It also stewards language-specific guidelines, assesses language and partner health using quality data and member feedback, supports innovation and automation in localization workflows, and collaborates on inclusion and diversity initiatives.

Requirements

At least 5–10 years of dubbing and/or timed-text title or language management experience across creative and operations.
Based in Los Angeles, California, with willingness to travel internationally and flexibility to work across time zones.
Ability to inspire trust, build teams, and represent Netflix professionally to partners.
Curiosity about innovation and ability to adapt to new technologies and processes, including automation and AI-driven quality tools.
Ability to read and question data and dashboards, including QC/TQ metrics and partner ratings, and connect metrics to member experience and vendor action.
Strong understanding of localization workflows and pipelines, including real-time workflows, and ability to execute titles at various stages from development through delivery.
Experience navigating complex vendor relationships, including difficult discussions about quality, accountability, and automation.
Strong analytical skills, including identifying root causes and proposing workflow changes; ability to write, facilitate, and present analyses.
Familiarity with, or willingness to learn, English-language localization contracts, union and guild dynamics, and local market best practices.
Native fluency in English is mandatory.
Bachelor’s degree preferred and/or equivalent relevant work experience.

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in another language.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

Own local relationships with English dubbing studios, timed-text and DL/PLDL vendors, and talent partners; conduct tactical syncs and quarterly strategic reviews, and escalate global strategy, vetting, and contract matters to Global Resource Management.
Train, align, and support partners so they can consistently meet Netflix’s quality standards, with partners responsible for day-to-day execution and self-QC.
Build and grow English-language dubbing and audio-description talent pipelines and databases; identify casting gaps and develop or sponsor initiatives with Global Resource Management to address them and track progress.
Collaborate with partners on dubbing talent casting and mix reviews for selected titles, enforce creative guidelines across dubbed titles, and seek improvements in efficiency and innovation across budgets, schedules, and vendor mix.
Monitor union and guild activity, market rates, and the competitive landscape for effects on pricing, capacity, and market behavior.
Integrate partner and quality data locally and escalate critical local issues, including issues ultimately resolved by Legal or Public Policy.
Apply a tiered support model across asset types, directly engaging with the highest-priority titles and using data and partner escalation for the remainder of the slate.
For priority import titles, review locked cuts, context, and terminology; align creative and operational plans with partners before production; review final assets, including secondary-audio watchdowns and targeted timed-text QC; and apply learnings to the wider ecosystem.
Steward workflows and standards for same-language and pivot assets, including OL forced narratives, SDH, PLDL/DL, and English pivot templates; align expectations for priority titles and use QC reports and spot checks to identify systemic gaps.
Approve translations and oversee vendor-suggested main and episode titles for priority titles in English-speaking markets, and serve as an escalation point for linguistic questions on English MT/ET more broadly.
Conduct post-launch quality reviews of primary trailers for priority titles and serve as an escalation point for non-audiovisual marketing assets such as copy and taglines.
Define market standards for creative excellence and guidelines, conduct risk assessments for special upstream localization requests, and analyze content and language performance trends with Title Producers.
Own and maintain language-specific style guides and creative guidelines for timed text, audio description, DL/PLDL, and creative excellence; keep them current, accessible, and aligned with production workflows.
Use guidelines for partner training, feedback, and quality interventions, and incorporate title-level learnings to evolve them for new formats and workflows.
Diagnose language health using metrics, QC/TQ signals, and member feedback; develop market-level strategies for quality strengths and systemic interventions or training needs.
Track vendor performance to guide routing, training priorities, and vendor-mix decisions, with the goal of reducing third-party QC reliance as partner quality improves.
Monitor technology developments such as ASR, machine translation, TQ models, and automation, and help define fit-for-purpose quality standards by format and tier.
Serve as an English localization workflow subject matter expert, support the Dubbing Strategy and Innovation roadmap and Netflix tooling ecosystem, and drive vendor adoption.
Participate in testing and quality control for lip sync, VO, machine translation, and core asset rollouts; provide structured feedback to Strategy & Innovation and algorithm teams.
Initiate, support, and collaborate with cross-functional partners on Inclusion and Diversity initiatives.
Maintain awareness of the local competitive landscape and working knowledge of localization contracts and local best practices between talent and Netflix vendors.

Benefits

Health plans
Mental health support
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Stock option program
Disability programs
Health savings and flexible spending accounts
Family-forming benefits
Life and serious injury benefits
Paid leave of absence programs
Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off.
Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.