Senior Advertising Creative Designer, Commercialization & Activation
Netflix
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.
The Role
The Netflix Advertising XD team is seeking an Ads Creative Designer to be a critical strategic partner to our Ads Commercialization and Product Strategy teams. This role is not just about creative execution; it’s about visual problem-solving at a business level. You will be responsible for navigating complex Ads use cases and developing high-craft, high-impact design artifacts (custom illustrations, conceptual renderings, system diagrams, animations, executive-level presentations) that bring our ad product strategy to life. Your work will be essential in aligning internal senior leadership and enabling our go-to-market teams to secure strategic spend. Sitting at the intersection of communication design, business strategy, and product innovation, the ideal candidate has a strong executive presence, is fluent in advertising nomenclature, and thrives on translating complex systems into clear, compelling, and persuasive visual narratives.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic & Narrative Partnership: Collaborate regularly with leaders in Ads Product Strategy, Commercialization, and Sales to understand business goals, shape the strategic narrative, and translate complex Ads systems into clear and compelling visual stories.
Design Strategic Artifacts & Toolkits: Conceptualize, design, and produce a wide range of high-craft artifacts (visualizations, conceptual mockups, ecosystem diagrams, executive-level presentations) and scalable toolkits that equip global go-to-market teams.
Communicate with Leaders: Confidently present and communicate design concepts and strategic narratives to senior-level stakeholders and executive leadership, both internally and externally.
Mentor & Guide: Provide guidance, art direction, and mentorship to help grow designers also focused on Ads Creative Design for Commercialization & Activation.
Act as a Creative-Technical Bridge: Serve as a key design partner who is fluent in both creative language and technical constraints, helping to translate creative vision into concepts that product and engineering teams can understand and operationalize.
Key Qualifications
5-7+ years of experience in a strategic design, communication design, or brand design role, preferably within the advertising, media, or tech industry.
A portfolio that showcases your ability to distill complex business problems into simple, elegant, and persuasive design solutions. We must see examples of strategy decks, system diagrams, conceptual illustrations, and data visualizations you have personally designed.
Mastery of Craft & Tools: Demonstrable expertise in visual storytelling and communication design (layout, typography, color) with expert proficiency in modern design and presentation tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Slides, Keynote).
Executive Presence & Ad Fluency: Deep familiarity with the advertising ecosystem (nomenclature, business models, key players) combined with proven experience and strong executive presence for influencing senior leaders.
Collaborative & Driven: Exceptional cross-functional collaboration, project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills. You are feedback-driven and comfortable navigating ambiguity.
Innovation Mindset: An innovation mindset, with proficiency or strong interest in leveraging Generative AI tools to accelerate and enhance creative ideation and production.
Preferred Skills
Proficiency in motion design (e.g., After Effects) or 3D rendering.
Experience working directly with product management and engineering teams on product-driven experiences.
Why Netflix?
Our Advertising XD team is at the forefront of shaping the future of entertainment and advertising. This is a unique opportunity to sit at the intersection of art, technology, and business, defining how the world's leading brands show up on Netflix. If you are a strategic, systems-level thinker, and a world-class visual craftsperson who wants to make a measurable business impact, we would love to talk to you!
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 $120,000 - $515,000.
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 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.
