Production Manager, Creative Innovation

Job Position(s): Production Manager, Creative Innovation

Netflix is hiring a Production Manager, Creative Innovation based in Los Angeles, California. This role sits inside Netflix’s Creative Innovation team and owns the full operational lifecycle of experimental production engagements that explore how generative AI and emerging technology integrate into episodic television and film workflows. It is a fit for a seasoned production manager who is as comfortable reading a budget in a vendor meeting as they are briefing a senior executive on program risk.

About the Role

The Creative Innovation team works at the intersection of storytelling and emerging technology, which means the Production Manager, Creative Innovation is not running a standard episodic production but is instead standing up engagements that have no established template. On any given day that might mean scoping a generative AI pilot with a title’s VFX team in the morning and writing a stakeholder summary on vendor performance across regional productions in the afternoon. The work requires the same budgetary discipline and reporting rigor you would bring to any production, applied to projects that are still defining their own process.

Key Responsibilities

• Scope and stand up new project engagements, defining budgets, timelines, and stakeholder alignment before any funded production work begins.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for title managers and filmmakers, keeping productions informed on program scope and involvement from kickoff through wrap.
• Manage vendor relationships across the program, setting performance expectations, monitoring pacing and quality, and flagging issues before they affect the production timeline.
• Partner with leadership to evaluate candidate titles, assess risk and investment tradeoffs, and make the case for project selections against program criteria.
• Handle contracting logistics for each engagement, confirming that creator agreements and vendor paperwork are complete before any work is funded.
• Synthesize feedback gathered across international productions and regional teams into clear status reports and presentation materials for senior leadership.

What You Bring

• Six or more years in production coordination or production management with direct ownership of budgets, timelines, and concurrent project tracking.
• Demonstrated experience managing external vendors, including identifying performance issues early and holding partners to defined deliverables.
• Ability to quickly understand and speak credibly about emerging creative technologies, including generative AI tools covering image, video, and audio, and translate their capabilities into practical production rollout plans.
• Strong deck building and narrative writing skills, with experience producing recaps and presentations for both creative and executive audiences.
• Preferred background in virtual production, volumetric capture, VFX pipeline workflows, or vendor evaluation frameworks.
• Experience working across international productions or regional teams is a plus.

Why This Role

Netflix is one of the few studios running a dedicated team whose mandate is to formally evaluate and integrate emerging production technology across its global content slate, which means this Production Manager, Creative Innovation role has real scope and real resources behind it. The work influences how generative AI gets adopted in episodic television and feature film production at scale, not just in a single title. Los Angeles is the operational hub, but the program touches productions across multiple regions.

Apply now for the Production Manager, Creative Innovation position at Netflix and bring production discipline to the work that is shaping what comes next in film and television.