Netflix

Title Producer, Content Localization - Film & Animation

Netflix$132K — $220K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years in localization, preferably within entertainment
  • Experience managing large-scale, fast-paced cross-functional projects
  • Familiarity with high-volume content pipelines and emerging formats
  • Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach
  • Proven ability to work in a collaborative environment with diverse teams
  • Effective communication and relationship-building skills
  • Fluency in English; knowledge of additional languages is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end localization lifecycle for assigned titles, ensuring accountability from planning to launch
  • Oversee all language assets, managing timelines, budgets, and quality assurance for dubbing and subtitling
  • Collaborate on localization strategies for new content formats, implementing scalable solutions
  • Design and manage workflows that support high volume and fast turnaround of localized content
  • Serve as the primary contact for cross-functional alignment during the localization process
  • Facilitate communication between Netflix and localization partners to meet project standards
  • Analyze project data to identify workflow optimization opportunities and resolve challenges

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans and mental health support
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Stock options program
  • Paid leave of absence and family-forming benefits
  • Flexible time off policy for salaried employees
  • Significant paid time off accumulation for hourly employees (35 days annually)
Full Job Description
The Opportunity

As a Localization Title Producer, UCAN - Film & Animation, you will ensure that members experience the highest quality localized experience across our Film, Animation and Kids & Family slate, preserving creative intent and enhancing the localized experience for viewers everywhere. With Netflix's ongoing international expansion, support for new languages, and the introduction of new content formats, providing world-class scalable localization services is essential to our success, making this an exciting time to join the company.

The Role

The Localization Title Producer team willserve as the single point of accountability for the end-to-end localization strategy and execution across all assigned titles and tasks. This role is responsible for orchestrating the seamless delivery of dubbing, subtitling, main/episodic titles, accessibility, and marketing assets, ensuring that all localized content reflects Netflix’s creative vision and meets regional standards for quality and authenticity. This role partners closely with internal and external stakeholders, including Content, Post, Marketing, external partners and more, to optimize workflows, resolve operational challenges, and drive continuous improvement. By championing operational excellence, this role plays a critical role in delivering a world-class member experience and supporting the successful global launch of Netflix content.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Localization Ownership

  • Fully own the operational and tactical localization lifecycle for assigned titles, serving as the single point of accountability from initial planning through global launch. 

  • Overseeing all language assets—including dubbing, subtitling, SDH, audio description, marketing supplementals, metadata, main/episodic titles, and forced narratives—proactively managing cross-functional expectations, timelines, budgets, quality control, and ensuring the launch readiness of localized assets for both long form and trailers.

  • Collaborate on localization strategy for new content formats, partnering closely with Strategy & Innovation, Vendor Strategy and Language Production to test, refine and implement scalable models (including automation and assistive technologies) for assigned slate.

  • Design, refine and operate scaled content ingestion workflows for emerging formats, ensuring localization can support high volume and fast turnaround while maintaining appropriate quality thresholds.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration

  • Act as the main localization point of contact between Content, Post, Marketing, Launch Management, and other internal teams, ensuring alignment and seamless communication throughout the localization process.

  • Facilitate collaboration between Netflix, localization partners, and Language Producers to align timelines, deliverables, and quality standards. Oversee progress, resolve operational challenges, and ensure consistent, authentic localization that meets regional objectives.

Project & Workflow Management

  • Plan, schedule, and manage localization workflows for each assigned title, including setting the title-level language strategy and vendor selection, bid management, financial tracking, and asset delivery.

  • Oversee context gathering, complexity assessment, source material distribution, and project tracking while maintaining operational efficiency, ensuring our localization partners are set up to create localized assets that meet the Netflix creative standard.

  • Analyze localization metrics and project data to identify opportunities for workflow optimization and to proactively resolve operational challenges.

Quality, Risk, and Issue Management

  • Identify, assess, and manage project risks, as well as troubleshoot and escalate quality or operational issues as needed, to keep projects on track.

  • Analyze title level localization metrics and data to identify opportunities for workflow optimization and to proactively resolve operational challenges.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

  • Champion the adoption of new practices, workflows, automation, and technology to streamline localization processes and support the integration of emerging media types (live, video podcasts, interactive experiences, etc.).

  • Identify and flag challenges within the current workflow to support ongoing operational improvement.

  • Foster a culture of partnership, transparency, and continuous improvement within the team and with external partners.

Requirements
  • This role will require regular project oversight outside of business hours to support day and date launch requirements. Applicants should be prepared to fully support this requirement as it arises.

  • Flexibility to support cross-vertical needs outside of Film, Animation, and Kids & Family as they arise, at the discretion of the Content Localization Manager/Director.

  • 5-7 or more years of experience in localization in a high-demand, fast-paced environment, ideally in the entertainment industry; experience managing large-scale, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment.

  • Experience managing high-volume content pipelines, day and date workflows, and/or emerging content formats.

  • Strong systems-thinking and strategic problem-solving skills

  • Ability to handle a fast-paced environment, supervising several projects at various points of production (from development through delivery).

  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills; able to work effectively in collaboration with creative, operational, technical and product teams.

  • Make sound independent decisions, and know when to escalate issues

  • Highly analytical, data-driven, and solutions-oriented; able to identify root causes, optimize processes, and drive operational excellence.

  • Adaptable and resilient in the face of change and ambiguity; comfortable with evolving priorities, formats, experimentation and new challenges.

  • Passion for operational efficiency, localization or project management.

  • Fluency in English required; additional languages a plus.

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 $132,000.00 - $220,000.00.

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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Net Income
$2.7 billion
Founded
1997
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