
Localization Title Producer, Live & Emerging Media
Netflix
Los Angeles, CAThis is a Full Time Job
The Opportunity
The Content Localization team, responsible for dubbing, subtitling, accessibility, main/episodic titles, and marketing assets, plays a crucial role in delivering these programs to an expanding international audience by focusing on high-quality localized audio and text services, fostering a collaborative team environment, and utilizing cutting-edge technology.
As a Localization Title Producer, Live & Emerging Media, you will ensure that members experience the highest quality localized experience across both our live and post-live events and our emerging media slate, including Live streaming, video podcasts, sports highlights, and casual engagement content. You will preserve creative intent while enabling localization at scale through efficient workflows, automation, and assistive technology.
With Netflix's ongoing international expansion, the growth of our Live business, and the rapid evolution of emerging media, providing world-class, scalable localization services is essential to our success-making this an exciting time to join the company.
The Role
The Live & Emerging Media Title Localization Producer will serve as a single point of accountability for the localization strategy and execution across all assigned live events and emerging media formats, from planning through live execution and post-live or ongoing experiences.
This role is responsible for orchestrating the seamless delivery of localized assets, including dubbing, subtitling, main/episodic titles, accessibility, and marketing assets, ensuring that all localized experiences reflect Netflix's creative vision, meet regional standards for quality and authenticity, and support a best-in-class member experience in real time and at scale.
A key focus for this team is the optimization and expansion of our Live workflows and scaled content ingestion for emerging media, building and refining workflows that leverage automation and assistive technology solutions. The producer will balance day-to-day operational management with supporting testing, pilots, and the implementation of new workflows, partnering closely with Language Production, Global Resource Management (GRM), and vendor partners to establish quality thresholds and manage quality at scale.
This role partners closely with internal and external stakeholders, including Product, Content, Post-Production, Marketing, Operations & Solutions, QC, Linguists, Language Production, Global Resource Management, Strategy & Innovation, and external partners, to optimize workflows, resolve operational challenges, and drive continuous improvement across both live and emerging media.
By championing operational excellence, scalable solutions, and data-driven decision-making, this role plays a critical part in delivering a world-class member experience and supporting the successful global launch of Netflix's live and emerging media content.
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End Ownership: Live & Emerging Media
• Own the end-to-end, title-level localization strategy and execution for assigned live events and emerging media content, serving as the single point of accountability from initial planning through live execution, post-live delivery, and, where relevant, ongoing release cycles, with a focus on creative excellence, reliability, and a seamless member experience across live, post-live, and on-demand contexts.
• Oversee all localized components, including subtitles, dubs, accessibility assets, main/episodic titles, and related marketing or asset types, proactively managing expectations, timelines, budgets, quality control, and launch readiness.
• Collaborate on localization strategy for new content offerings and workflows, partnering closely with Strategy & Innovation, Vendor Strategy, Localization Quality, Language Production, GRM, and vendor partners to test, refine, and implement scalable models (including automation and assistive technologies) for live and emerging media.
Scaled Content Ingestion, Automation & Workflow Development
• Collaborate on localization strategy for new content offerings and workflows, partnering closely with Strategy & Innovation, Vendor Strategy, Localization Quality, Language Production, GRM, and vendor partners to test, refine, and implement scalable localization models for live and emerging media.
• Design, refine, and operate scaled content ingestion workflows for emerging media (e.g., video podcasts, sports highlights, casual engagement content), ensuring localization can support high volume and fast turnaround while maintaining appropriate quality thresholds.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify and implement automation and assistive technology solutions that streamline localization workflows, support scale, and improve overall efficiency.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration
• Act as the primary localization point of contact for the live and emerging media titles under your management, centralizing title-level localization strategy and maintaining accountability across title-launch teams (e.g., Product, Creative Leads, Production Services, Language Production, GRM, Strategy & Innovation, Post-Production, Marketing, etc.).
• Facilitate collaboration between Netflix teams, localization partners, and linguists to align timelines, deliverables, and quality standards across regions and languages.
• Advocate on behalf of Content Localization with local cross-functional stakeholders, while representing local market and member needs back to functional partners to ensure globally consistent yet locally relevant live and emerging media experiences.
• Provide guidance, documentation, and peer-to-peer support to help other producers work across slates and regions, fostering continuity across the global Title/Localization Producer community.
Project & Workflow Management
• Plan, schedule, and manage localization workflows for each assigned live event and emerging media slate, including defining title-level language strategy, coordinating vendor assignments, managing schedules and budgets, and overseeing asset delivery across live, post-live, and recurring publishing cycles.
• Oversee context gathering, complexity assessment, source material distribution, and project tracking, ensuring that localization partners are set up to deliver assets that meet Netflix's creative standard under fast-moving, time-sensitive conditions.
• Manage highly time-sensitive and often confidential projects, anticipating and mitigating localization challenges while maintaining operational efficiency and business continuity.
Quality, Risk, and Issue Management
• Identify, assess, and manage project and live-event risks, including real-time issue detection and mitigation; escalate quality or operational issues as needed to keep launches and updates on track.
• Partner with Language Production, GRM, Localization Quality, and vendor partners to establish and manage quality at scale, using clear thresholds, sampling strategies, and feedback loops tailored for emerging media and automated/assisted workflows.
Salary/Benefits
$132,000 - $220,000 /year USD
Additional Information
At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world by pushing the boundaries of storytelling and global fandom, making the unimaginable a reality. We are a team dedicated to exploring the intersection of creativity, intuition, and cutting-edge technology.