About the Role
Netflix is seeking an experienced, thoughtful, and creative leader to head the events team in the Asia Pacific region. This role involves setting the creative and operational vision, overseeing event professionals who bring the Netflix brand to life, and driving conversation around Netflix titles, talent, and the brand through curated events.
Responsibilities
- Lead events at scale, ensuring creative ambition, strategic sharpness, and flawless execution.
- Drive consistency and quality across a diverse event calendar, allowing for risk and innovation.
- Partner with key stakeholders to ensure the events team meets evolving business needs.
- Lead a high-performing team of leaders and over 20+ individuals, understanding local nuances.
- Set clear standards and direction for the team, focusing on impactful outcomes.
- Inspire, develop, and empower the team, championing Netflix culture and values.
- Solve problems creatively, ensuring the team meets evolving business needs.
- Encourage bold thinking that leverages Netflix's unique strengths.
- Push teams to be deliberate about when an event is the right solution for a campaign.
- Be a key member of the APAC marketing leadership team.
- Partner seamlessly with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Awards, Communications, and Content.
- Help shape the broader marketing culture, setting the tone for collaboration, ambition, and creative excellence.
- Act as an ambassador for the events team in broader forums, ensuring output aligns with company priorities.
Requirements
- An experienced leader with a deep, proven track record, ideally in entertainment, media, or culture-led brands.
- Equally comfortable dreaming up standout ideas and running complex operations at scale.
- A natural leader who can motivate large teams, recruit top talent, and develop future leaders.
- An outstanding communicator with strong instincts.
- Adaptable, curious, and resilient.
- Passionate about the events industry with the ability to roll up sleeves and support the team when needed.
- Experienced working in global organizations, navigating matrixed structures and multiple stakeholders.
- Transparent and courageous to challenge, ask questions, or call out obstacles.
- Effective communication in English.
- APAC market fluency is essential.
- On-the-ground regional experience is a plus, not a prerequisite.
Skills
- Event leadership
- Creative vision
- Operational leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Communication
- Team motivation
- Talent recruitment
- Talent development
- Problem-solving
- Adaptability
- Curiosity
- Resilience
- Stakeholder management
- Strategic planning
- Budget management
Location
- Asia Pacific
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced leader
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
