Netflix

Netflix

Head of Cinematography, Layout- Ink

Los Angeles,California,United States of America

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
PythonLLMsMayaLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingTime ManagementMentoring

About the role

  • This role oversees the cinematic vision and visual storytelling, collaborating closely with creative leadership to realize the Director's vision.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the Director(s) and creative leadership to architect, define, and execute the show's camera language (lenses, positions, movement) and visual style (staging, composition).
  • Partner with production leadership to forecast pipeline needs and mitigate bottlenecks before they impact delivery.
  • Build and champion necessary workflows, templates, and scripts; actively document crew learnings and best practices to scale future capabilities.
  • Foster and lead a high-performance, exploratory team culture that thrives on collaboration and creative experimentation.

Requirements

  • Minimum 7 years experience in film, TV or games industry
  • Minimum 4 years experience in a leadership or supervisory role for film, TV or games
  • Solid knowledge of Previs, Camera, and CG shot production and its iterative process
  • Layout and previsualization production experience on feature films, shorts or series
  • Advanced working knowledge of CG software tools such as Autodesk Maya, Houdini or Nuke
  • Experience in working and adhering to production budgets and timelines
  • Strong and proven leadership, communication and problem-solving skills
  • A scrappy, builder's mindset with a high degree of independence, out-of-the-box application, and initiative as production support and workflows evolve alongside the creative process.
  • Demonstrated experience working in ambiguous environments where the core production pipeline is being built and rapidly iterated upon
  • Ability to provide upward, constructive feedback to leadership for improved scalability.

Nice to have

  • Understanding of Python and/or MEL scripting a plus
  • Understanding and knowledge of GenAI native tools a plus

Company info

  • We are seeking a Head of Cinematography, Layout to join our pioneering team to create animated content using experimental GenAI-native production pipelines, with the goal of producing feature-quality content.

This listing is sourced directly from Netflix's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.