Manager, Sustainability Standards & Partnerships (EMEA)

Manager, Sustainability Standards & Partnerships (EMEA)

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Netflix Sustainability works to advance sustainability behind the camera and engage our members on topics and solutions around sustainability.

The Opportunity

Leveraging Netflix’s collaborative, innovative, and fast-paced culture, this position will help enhance Netflix’s ability to achieve its goals by managing sustainability standards and policy risks, addressing technology and market barriers, and leveraging strategic partnerships. This role will focus primarily on the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

Reporting into the Standards & Partnerships team of Netflix Sustainability, this role will work closely with senior team members to improve and align sustainability regulatory, technology, and market environments with the company’s objectives. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Support monitoring of the landscape of relevant climate and sustainability-related legislative, regulatory, and standard-making proposals, requirements, and trends.
• Conduct and commission research and analysis to understand benefits and trade-offs of such efforts, develop approaches, and provide timely support for evolving needs.
• This includes topics of importance to Netflix and to the success of the screen sector, such as availability of technologies valuable to more sustainable production and delivery of film, TV, games and events, as well as tools and resources for empowering the creative ecosystem (creators, filmmakers, showrunners, etc) around content development.
• Support engagement and partnership with relevant external stakeholders, including public officials, NGOs, industry suppliers, business and industry peers, and scientific and technology communities.
• Support the design of and participation in industry and partner-led events that engage a variety of stakeholders, including the public.
• Support, and at times represent, Netflix in industry, business, and NGO collaborative groups, associations, and events.
• Leverage internal expertise, data, projects, insights and bespoke assets to support the execution of this work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Degree in Environmental Science, Public Policy, Economics, Management or equivalent.
• 10+ years of experience in sustainability technology, policy, or implementation in research, private sector, public sector, or legislative settings.
• Experience with national, regional, and local legislative and regulatory processes, specifically in Europe.
• Experience working with industry groups, research groups, public officials, regulatory agencies, manufacturers/suppliers, third-party organizations, or a combination of these.
• Experience developing and maintaining successful partnerships and multi-group collaborations.
• Technical familiarity across sustainability topics, which may cover technologies, regulations, government programs, NGO efforts, and industry collaborations.
• Experience designing and executing on industry-related events that engage a variety of partners and stakeholders, including the public.
• Thoughtful and structured research approach that allows for quick analysis, concise written and verbal summaries, and actionable recommendations, including rapid-response.
• Confident in building rapport and communicating with leadership executives, various internal teams, and external stakeholders.
• 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.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. 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.