Manager, Sustainability Standards & Partnerships - UCAN

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 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 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 and (as of 2022), to spur change across our value chain, and to annually bring our remaining emissions to zero by investing in the power of nature to capture carbon. 

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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 and unconventional partnerships.

Responsibilities:

Reporting into the Standards & Partnerships team of Netflix Sustainability, this role will focus primarily on regions within the United States and Canada, and 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:

• Maintain up-to-date monitoring of the landscape of relevant climate, clean energy, and sustainability-related legislative, regulatory, and standard-making proposals, requirements, and trends.

• Conduct and commission research and analysis to understand opportunities and  impacts of such efforts, formulate proactive positions and strategies, and support rapid-response.

• Identify and develop strategic partnerships and collaborative projects to improve the availability of clean technology and carbon projects.

• Identify and leverage public programs and industry initiatives to scale investment in and adoption of clean technologies for the entertainment sector.

• Support engagement and partnership with relevant external stakeholders, including public officials, NGOs, industry suppliers, business and industry peers, and scientific and technology communities.

• Support, and at times represent, Netflix in industry, business, and NGO collaborative groups, coalitions, 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

• 7+ years of experience in sustainability and clean energy technology issues, policy, or implementation in research, private sector, public sector, or legislative settings. 

• Broad technical knowledge base (wide not deep) across sustainability, clean energy, and carbon market topics, including technologies, regulations, government programs, NGO efforts, and industry coalitions.

• Experience working with industry coalitions, research groups, public officials, regulatory agencies, advocacy groups, manufacturers/suppliers, third-party organizations, or a combination of these.

• Experience developing and maintaining successful partnerships and coalitions. 

• Familiarity with federal, state, and local legislative and regulatory processes.

• 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.

Location: United States - Remote, with preference for proximity to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, or Sacramento regions.

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 $160,000 - $360,000.

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 .

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more . 

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.