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Netflix

Streams shows, films and live events worldwide

Director – Enterprise Security

Full-TimeUpdated Deadline 2/8/27
$352k - $605k/yr+ Stock options
Expert
Bachelor's
Los Angeles, CA, USA
In PersonThe posting identifies Los Angeles, California as the role's base; it also mentions New York and Los Gatos as possible locations.
Security & Protective Services
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Prior experience overseeing larger, complex operating and capital expenditure budgets.
  • A bachelor's degree in Business, Security, or a related field and at least 10 years of experience with increasing scope, responsibility, and complexity at global companies.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience building, managing, mentoring, and inspiring enterprise security teams, with a proven track record of leveraging data to drive significant business impact.
  • Ability to identify, analyze, and explain present or future needs for proposed security initiatives to senior management.
  • Ability to lead large cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Experience managing or overseeing risk and vulnerability assessments and operational security design and planning.
  • Experience with or a deep understanding of the technical security stack.
  • Specific experience with risk and intelligence functions within an enterprise environment.
Responsibilities
  • Lead, manage, and develop a high-impact team.
  • Drive the regional physical security strategy for corporate offices and specialized locations, and articulate relevant security risks to leadership.
  • Influence cross-functional partners and senior leadership, shaping strategic decisions to embed security across the regional business and align the program with the business's risk and culture.
  • Implement a baseline approach for the physical security program to assess the current portfolio and influence site selection and the design of new facilities.
  • Design and evolve the operational security model, overseeing the strategic direction of access control, guard force management, and related technologies to ensure efficiency and alignment with the regional risk posture.
  • Manage vendor engagement, budgeting, and financial management to support business growth and operational excellence.
  • Lead regional crisis and incident management, communications, and response.
  • Partner with and align cross-functional stakeholders across Content Risk Management, Events, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, and Security, Privacy, and Assurance.
  • Work with the Human Resources Business Partner to design a long-term staffing and organizational model aligned with the Enterprise Security vision.
  • Advance and mature the regional security program, defining target-state capabilities and a roadmap.
  • Strengthen external partnerships with local and state law enforcement, federal agencies, third-party vendors, and community organizations.
  • Own the risk profile at regional locations and implement tailored mitigation measures aligned with the global risk framework.

About the company

Netflix runs a subscription streaming service for TV series, films, documentaries, games and live events, watched by members around the world. Its catalog mixes licensed titles with originals it commissions in dozens of countries, from Korean dramas like Squid Game to stand-up specials and live sports. Members watch on smart TVs, phones, computers and game consoles, and a recommendation system shapes what each profile sees first. Netflix earns most of its revenue from monthly membership fees, including a lower-priced plan with ads sold through its own advertising technology. Netflix was founded in 1997 as a DVD-by-mail rental service and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Los Gatos, California

Founded

1997

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What believers are saying

  • Growth is steady: July 2026 results showed second-quarter revenue up 13% to $12.6 billion, with a 33.4% operating margin.
  • Advertising is scaling fast: in July 2026, Netflix forecast ad revenue roughly doubling to about $3 billion this year.
  • Pay aims high: Netflix's culture memo says it pays each person's personal top of market for role and location.

What critics are saying

  • Cuts are on the table: Puck reported in October 2026 that Netflix is weighing layoffs of about 5% of staff.
  • The performance bar is unforgiving: managers apply a keeper test, asking whether they would fight to keep each employee.
  • YouTube draws more TV viewing: figures reported in October 2026 put it at 14.2% of TV time, Netflix at 7.8%.

What makes Netflix unique

  • Scale is its moat: Netflix passed 325 million paid memberships by the end of 2025, serving nearly a billion viewers.
  • Non-English shows carry real weight: they drew over a third of Netflix viewing in the first half of 2026.
  • It owns its ad technology: the in-house Netflix Ads Suite has run in all 12 ad-tier countries since mid-2025.

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Benefits

  • Free lunches
  • Up to 12 months' maternity and paternity leave
  • Unlimited vacation days, within reason
  • Open working hours (at the California office)
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Mobile phone discounts

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Yahoo Finance
Oct 29th, 2026
Netflix walks away from Xbox licensing deal after Microsoft asks $800M versus $500M offer

Netflix reportedly walked away from a deal for seven years of exclusive film and TV rights to Microsoft's Xbox game library, which includes Halo and Gears of War. Puck News reported that Netflix first offered $500 million, but Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma asked for $800 million. Netflix's chief financial officer, Spencer Neumann, rejected the counter as too expensive. The offer was pulled after a mid-October restructuring that cut about 1,000 jobs and saw content chief Bela Bajaria leave. Former Disney executive Peter Rice replaced her. Xbox is now pursuing several smaller deals. Amazon gets "Fallout" Season 3, Paramount Pictures gets a "Call of Duty" movie, and Netflix keeps "Gears of War" and "Diablo." Netflix's third-quarter revenue rose 12% to $12.9 billion, but it cut its 2026 advertising forecast from $3 billion to $2.7 billion.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 29th, 2026
Netflix viewing slumps despite subscriber growth after password-sharing crackdown

Netflix is adding subscribers, but they are opening the app less often, according to a new Bloomberg report. The trend has raised concern inside the company. Total time spent on the platform rose only slightly in the first half of 2026, and the gain came from having more subscribers, not from people watching more. By Netflix's own measure, qualified play days (QPD), viewership has been falling for a couple of years. The slide began after the company's 2022 password sharing crackdown, which was expected to cause only a temporary dip. Cancellations, competition and price rises do not appear to be the cause. Netflix points to weak promotion, user interface changes, and programming that misses the mark. It also faces slower advertising sales, slowing revenue growth, job cuts, and a leadership shake-up.

Fortune
Oct 27th, 2026
Netflix cut 1,000 jobs and its content chief; opinion says dignity in firings matters

Netflix cut roughly 1,000 jobs last week and replaced chief content officer Bela Bajaria, who spent nearly a decade helping build the streaming service into a global entertainment powerhouse. Peter Rice, her successor, was himself abruptly dismissed from Disney in 2022 by then-chief executive officer Bob Chapek, who was fired months later. A Fortune commentary argues that corporate America is treating departing staff too coldly. It cites Columbia Business School research finding that layoffs seen as unfair weaken the commitment of remaining employees. A 2023 study of Airbnb's layoffs found that staff who saw the process as unfair reported less trust in management, lower job satisfaction, and more cynicism. The author says respect, honest communication, and a chance to say goodbye cost little and may pay off as artificial intelligence reshapes work.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 26th, 2026
Chamath calls Netflix "a dormant subscription" as $20B content bill outweighs $14B debt

Netflix shares fell after its October 20 third-quarter report, when it guided fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street's estimates and cut its 2026 ad revenue outlook to about $2.7 billion from $3 billion. The stock was already down 26% in 2026. Investor Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital, called Netflix "a dormant subscription" and said $14 billion of debt financed its content library. YouTube, he argued, creates content far more cheaply. The debt looks manageable. Netflix ended September with $15.3 billion of gross debt and $8.2 billion of cash, and expects about $12 billion of free cash flow this year. The bigger risk is a content bill of about $20 billion this year, paid before anyone watches. YouTube pays creators a share of revenue only after it comes in.

NPR
Oct 24th, 2026
AI-found PHP2SHELL flaw leaks, hackers pounce as French protests resume and Netflix downsizes

Websites are going offline after hackers exploited a vulnerability in part of the internet's architecture, called PHP2SHELL. AI discovered the flaw, and security researchers rushed to fix it. The news leaked, however, and hackers swooped in. In France, authorities deployed large numbers of police as another wave of protests began. Netflix is regrouping after releasing its latest quarterly earnings this week.