Netflix is hiring a general manager to be the ‘face’ of its gaming efforts, and could pay the right candidate up to $1.3m per year.
The new job ad has opened up amid a relignment under new boss Alain Tascan, who was appointed Netflix games president last summer. Tascan joined after former Netflix games boss Mike Verdu moved into a new AI-focused team, and since then, ex-third party games boss Leanne Loombe has departed to take up a new role at Annapurna.
The successful candidate for the new Netflix games GM role will be paid between $500k and $1.3m. The streaming firm is seeking someone with “over 10 years of senior leadership experience in the game development industry, with a demonstrated ability to successfully guide large-scale, high-profile projects from concept to launch.”
Netflix may not be done with M&A, either, judging by the job ad. Netflix also wants someone with “experience in mergers and acquisitions, integration, and divestitures within the gaming space.”
The job is based in LA, and part of the role includes serving “as an external face of the organization to the industry, forging long-term partnerships with external developers and sourcing the right games,” the job ad says.
The new GM will be tasked with refining Netflix’s games efforts, as it increasingly focuses on narrative, party, kids and known-IP games. That new direction appears to have been borne out by the removal of several indie and ‘double-A’ games from its release slate, and the addition of 2K’s WWE games.
The recent release of Squid Game: Unleashed may also show where Netflix games is headed. Netflix launched the game for free, where the rest of its mobile game portfolio requires an active subscription.
