Netflix

Senior Visual Designer, Emerging Creative

Netflix$220K — $330K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Combination of Product Design and expertise in entertainment/branding.
  • Visionary UX concept crafting based on user needs and strategic thinking.
  • Exceptional attention to detail with a commitment to high-quality work.
  • Experience with cross-functional teams in video, audio, and motion graphics.
  • Proven ability to ship complex products within technical constraints.
  • Strong skills in cross-discipline partnership and strategic vision.
  • Excellent communication and presentation capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Design visual experiences for TV, mobile, and web interfaces.
  • Create cinematic storytelling through design to enhance product engagement.
  • Collaborate with audio and motion teams to incorporate storytelling.
  • Translate business goals into user-friendly, engaging interfaces.
  • Prototype and validate high-fidelity design concepts.
  • Establish scalable design frameworks and style guides for uniform experiences.
  • Produce various artifacts including mockups, videos, and presentations.

Benefits

  • Health Plans and Mental Health support.
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match.
  • Stock Option Program and Disability Programs.
  • Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Family-forming benefits and Life/Serious Injury Benefits.
  • Generous paid leave with up to 35 days of PTO annually for full-time hourly employees.
  • Immediate flexible time off for full-time salaried employees.
Full Job Description

The Team

At ECXD (Emerging Creative Experience Design), our mission is to craft multimedia experiences that blend motion, audio, visuals, and storytelling to amplify Netflix’s brand, drive innovation, and inspire meaningful connections with global audiences and partners.

We specialize in interaction, animation, cinematic UX, and engaging content-forward interfaces, working horizontally across products and platforms to create performant, intuitive, and delightful user experiences that immerse users, effectively convey information, and foster connections between Netflix, members, soon-to-be members, and B2B partners.

The Role

We are looking for a Product / Visual Design hybrid to join the team! In this role you will be responsible for a range of creative execution that requires a flexible skillset, including content-forward creative to UI feature design, and brand assets that live within the Netflix UI. All this creativity will be brought to life in partnership with teammates who specialize in Audio, Motion, and Video in the context of compelling Product storytelling.

At times, you will craft immersive, story-driven experiences expressed through aspirational product prototypes; at others, you will design intuitive, scalable experiences that seamlessly align with and extend our design systems. Across all work, youll be expected to demonstrate exceptional visual craft while collaborating horizontally across teams and surfaces to envision and build product experiences that advance business goals while elevating the aesthetics and usability of the Netflix product experience.

Your Impact:

  • Visual design across TV, mobile, and web surfaces, spanning member and nonmember experiences.

  • Creates cinematic storytelling experiences through visual design to elevate product experiences that communicate concepts, emotions, and creative vision.

  • Partner with motion, AV, and audio teams to integrate storytelling into interactions.

  • Turn business goals into interfaces that delight, inform, and engage.

  • Prototype and test high-fidelity concepts, from sketches and wireframes to vision videos and interactive prototypes.

  • Define scalable frameworks, style guides, and visual design systems that unify Netflixs product experiences.

  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Design Systems, and Research to ensure holistic experience quality.

  • Deliver a variety of artifacts and storytelling mediums, including qual stimuli, mockups, videos, promotional concepts, and business storytelling presentations.

Must Have:

  • A combination of Product Design and entertainment and/or Brand expertise.

  • Ability to craft visionary UX concepts grounded in user needs with strategic thinking.

  • Exceptional craft and attention to detail, with a passion for maintaining high quality.

  • Experience working with multidisciplinary teams, including video, audio, and motion graphics on a variety of creative artifacts.

  • Experience to ship complex products by working within technical constraints, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving toward successful outcomes.

  • Strong cross-discipline partnership skills, able to see the big picture strategically, bring pieces together, and drive clarity through ambiguity.

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to articulate design decisions and strategy with influence.

  • Proactive and self-starting, able to uncover and propose solutions independently.

  • Ability to participate in and influence impactful design solutions across all phases of the product lifecycle.

  • In depth knowledge of Figma.

  • Fluent with AI design toolsactively uses them to increase workflow efficiency and elevate design quality.

  • Passion for entertainment, content-rich product, storytelling, and elevating creative experiences.

Bonus:

  • Creative vision experience or strategic product roadmap.

  • Strong prototyping skills using Figma Motion, Principle, ProtoPie, After Effects, Rive, and Lottie.

  • Real-time tools (Unreal, Unity, WebGL).

  • Collaboration with design systems and design technology partners.

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 $220,000.00 - $330,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.

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 details about our Benefits here.

About Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company founded on August 29, 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, and currently based in Los Gatos, California, with production offices and stages at the Los Angeles-based Hollywood studios (formerly old Warner Brothers studios) and the Albuquerque Studios (formerly ABQ studios). It operates an eponymous over-the-top subscription video on-demand service, which showcases acquired and original programming as well as third-party content licensed from other production companies and distributors. Netflix is also the first streaming media company to be a member of the Motion Picture Association.
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Size
11,300 employees
Market Cap
$127.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
+27.5%
Revenue
$24.9 billion
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