Employment Legal Counsel, Netflix
EMEA
Streaming service
Job no longer available
Streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Entertainment, like friendship, is a fundamental human need; it changes how we feel and gives us common ground. Netflix is better entertainment at lower cost and greater scale than the world has ever seen. They want to entertain everyone, and make the world smile.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will have at least 6+ years of deep experience in employment law and labor relation matters in a law firm and/or in-house in a multinational company
- German employment law experience is desirable
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively cross-functionally, think practically and be solution-oriented
- This role is for someone who thrives in an environment where freedom and responsibility are core values, and passion, innovation, courage and curiosity are at the heart of everything we do
What the job involves
- Netflix seeks a Counsel, Employment Legal - EMEA to join our growing team in EMEA
- We are looking for someone who has great passion for the Netflix brand and our content, and who wants to be a part of our global team of employment lawyers who use their legal knowledge and experience in the most practical and risk tolerant way possible to support our ever-growing business
- With our rapid expansion across EMEA, this person would primarily support our offices in Germany, Poland and the Nordics
- The role reports to the Director, Employment Legal - EMEA, based in Amsterdam. Next to him, you’d be working closely with our other Employment legal counsels based in EMEA as well as with the global employment legal team
- Still, the aim is to have this largely be an independent role and to have you run with it!
- Main focus: Advise on all corporate employment matters in close collaboration with members of HR (Talent), HRBP’s, Talent Operations,, Employment Tax, Mobility & Immigration
- Subsidiary focus: Support EMEA content productions with employment-related matters in EMEA
- Provide subject matter expertise and, when appropriate, train on a broad range of employment issues, including recruiting, contingent workers, employment practices, anti-harassment and termination practices and approaches, as well as supporting our other employment legal team members in EMEA on these issues as needed for other EMEA countries
- Proactively identify, assess, and balance employment law risk, and be able to offer practical, business-oriented and creative solutions in partnership with the business teams
- Stay current with, and advise Netflix on, meaningful employment-related legal developments
- When necessary, help investigate incidents and/or complaints and manage employment-related litigation in EMEA
- Actively collaborate with the global Employment Legal team on projects and issues
- Select, manage and use outside counsel effectively; and
- Support Netflix’s commitment to maintaining a diverse and inclusive harassment-free workplace
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Netflix was started when one of the co-founders had received a $40 late fee after failing to return a film on time. Now, Netflix is one of the fastest growing technology companies, reinventing the entertainment space by providing high quality content for low fees.
This is becoming an increasingly competitive space, with deep-pocketed rivals including Amazon, Disney, Apple and AT&T. They are all spending big on content and pricing cheaply in a battle to win subscribers.
After a dwindling number of subscribers due to tough competition in 2022, Netflix is focused and committed to improving its core service which is its TV, movies and now games going forward. Post-IPO funding of $183 million from Winslow Capital at the end of 2023 followed the previous year's dumping of shares by the same company after Netflix's first loss of subscribers. This capital indicates a shifting perspective on Netflix's outlook, which saw a year-end subscriber boost.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2000
$50m
SERIES E
Jul 1999
$30m
SERIES D
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Inclusion
- You work well with people of different backgrounds, identities, values and cultures
- You are excited to help build diverse teams where everyone feels welcomed and respected
- You recognize we all have biases and work to counteract them
- You take action if someone is marginalizing a colleague
- You treat everyone with respect regardless of their position at Netflix
- Integrity
- You exhibit and are known for candor and transparency
- You only say things about colleagues that you are willing to share with them
- You admit mistakes openly and share learnings widely
- You always share relevant information internally, even when uncomfortable
- You act with good intent and trust your colleagues to do the same
- Passion
- You care deeply about Netflix‘s success
- You inspire others with your drive for excellence
- You are excited about your work
- You are proud to entertain the world
- You are tenacious and optimistic
- Innovation
- You develop new ideas that prove impactful
- You look for every opportunity to reduce complexity and keep things simple
- You challenge prevailing assumptions, and suggest better approaches
- You are flexible and thrive in a constantly evolving organization
- Curiosity
- You learn rapidly and eagerly
- You seek alternate perspectives to improve your ideas
- You see patterns and connections that other people miss
- You seek to understand members’ changing tastes and desires
Company HQ
Los Gatos, CA
Founders
Reed Hastings
(Chairman)Served two years with the Peace Corps in Switzerland. Studied Computer Science at Stanford, and founded Pure Software (which sold for a substantial profit before Netflix). Previously a Board Member at Microsoft and Facebook.
Greg Peters
(Co-CEO)Previously Netflix COO and CPO, SVP and CE of Product Development at Macrovision, VP of Engineering at Mediabolic, Director at Redhat inc, VP Engineering at NOCpulse.
People progressing
Joined as a Content Strategy Associate in LA. Moved to London after 6 months. They have been promoted to Head of Content Strategy & Analysis UK.
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