Senior Operations Manager, Game Studio

Netflix • Los Angeles, CA

4d • $180,000 - $290,000

About The Position

As Senior Operations Manager at Night School Studio, you’ll be focused on driving operational efficiency for our game teams, supporting them through development to live production. You will regularly engage and partner with Netflix cross-functional organizations. As our studio grows, you’ll help shape the fundamental strategies and tools to operate as a cohesive unit inside of Netflix Games.

Requirements

• 4+ years of operational management experience, preferably within a game development studio.
• 8+ years of game production experience with fluency in development methodology and best practices.
• Have shipped at least 3+ games and strongly understand the process from inception to post-launch product support.
• Strong fluency in game studio and project budgeting, resourcing, and forecasting.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills with a passion for working with creative teams.
• Skillful ability to solve complex qualitative and quantitative issues in the course of day-to-day work.

Nice To Haves

• Business and Financial acumen
• Experience working on game titles with long-tail content updates post-launch or a live service.
• Multi-platform experience with consoles, PC/Mac, and mobile devices.
• Clear and effective communication

Responsibilities

• Ensure the studio is tracking to budget and managing the budget with the production team
• Partner with internal Finance and Data Science teams to forecast resource needs.
• Partner with senior leadership to drive the annual planning process, including production priorities and budgets of the studio and projects across our portfolio.
• Work with internal stakeholders on external vendor sourcing, relationships, management, and business needs.
• Build and maintain meaningful systems and key tools to streamline internal team resourcing and operational needs across multiple projects.
• Continuously evaluate, identify, and seek to implement creative solutions for complex problems and/or issues with product development and internal operations across all projects.
• Develop and maintain a framework and strategy to support existing in-market titles while aligning with new development priorities.
• Partner with Studio Leadership and Talent partners to ensure a highly engaged and talent-dense team

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed