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Senior Manager, Sustainability Standards & Partnerships
Netflix Sustainability serves to advance sustainability both on screen and behind the camera. This entails decarbonizing the company in line with climate science, supporting creators who wish to weave sustainability into their stories and games, and engaging our millions of members on sustainability topics. Netflix has set public climate targets to cut our emissions in half by 2030, to spur change across our value chain, and from 2022 onwards, to match any remaining emissions by investing in verified natural climate solutions and super pollutant destruction. Learn more at sustainability.netflix.com.
The Opportunity
Leveraging Netflix’s collaborative, innovative, and fast-paced culture, this position will help enhance Netflix’s ability to achieve its goals by creating and maximizing strategic partnerships and investments that help address technology and market barriers and drive the deployment of cleantech at scale across the business and the entertainment industry – including but not limited to electric vehicles and charging equipment, battery storage technology, clean fuels, and related infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Global Director for Standards & Partnerships in Netflix Sustainability, this role requires a senior subject matter expert working closely with other senior leaders across the business to improve and align sustainability regulatory, technology, and market environments with the company’s objectives. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
1. Strategy & Market Development
- Oversee the development and implementation of strategies that support the enablement of cleantech deployment and adoption at scale, defining interim objectives, core metrics of success, insight collection, and trend analysis.
- **Conduct and commission research and analysis to understand barriers and opportunities to cleantech availability – e.g., market gap assessments and surveys related to technology supply, price, and vendor ecosystem. **
- Design or engage in initiatives that stimulate tech supply and innovation – e.g., technology incubators and buyer clubs.
- Assess and advance multiple complementary financial investment approaches.
- **Design or engage in initiatives that accelerate industry-relevant adoption of cleantech - e.g., gap assessments, incentives, standards, certifications, upskilling and workforce development programs. **
****2. Standards & Partnerships ****
- Identify and leverage public programs and cross-industry initiatives to scale investment in and adoption of cleantech relevant for the industry.
- Develop, shape, and leverage internal and external third-party standards, certification programs, and complementary financial incentive programs that can drive market transformation and adoption around key markets.
- Develop strategic partnerships and collaborations, including with government bodies, NGOs, industry suppliers, business and industry peers, and scientific and technology communities.
- Represent Netflix in industry, business, and NGO collaborative groups, coalitions, associations, and events, especially on highly technical topics.
- **Monitor and action on new and emerging issues, policy and otherwise, that can influence the success of cleantech in the screen industry. **
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced Degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Public Policy, Economics, Management or equivalent
- 15+ years of experience in sustainability technology, policy, or implementation, with a preference for significant time in the private sector.
- Extensive experience developing and leading business-relevant strategies that can accelerate sustainability and cleantech objectives.
- **Strong project and team management skills, including cross-functional partners. **
- **Demonstrated experience researching and shaping external market dynamics that can accelerate cleantech availability and adoption. **
- **Experience designing and leveraging incentives and standards, internal and external, that support demand aggregation, market signaling, and industry adoption. **
- Demonstrated success developing and maintaining successful internal and external partnerships and multi-group collaborations, including with industry groups, research groups, government bodies, manufacturers/suppliers, third-party organizations, or a combination of these.
- Extensive technical knowledge across cleantech and other sustainability topics, to include technologies, financial approaches, regulations, government programs, NGO efforts, and industry collaborations.
- Extensive experience and confidence in building rapport and communicating with very senior leadership executives, various internal teams, and external stakeholders.
- Thoughtful and structured research approach that allows for quick analysis, concise written and verbal summaries, and actionable recommendations, including rapid-response.
- Ability to structure and have ownership over one’s own work and time.
- Humility with one's own knowledge gaps and seeking out expertise rather than recreating it.
- Comfort with uncertainty and flexibility in order to experiment, fail fast, apply lessons learned, pivot strategy, and press on.
Location: United States - Remote, with strong preference for proximity to Los Angeles or Los Gatos.
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 $266,000.00 - $438,000.00. 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.
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Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.