Game Capture Artist

We are looking for an experienced, driven, and innovative Game Capture Artist with extensive technical, and creative experience who has a passion for gaming. Someone who can balance logical thinking and creative ideas while managing projects and fostering innovation.

 

As a PCS Game Capture Artist, you will collaborate closely with other creatives, developers, cross-functional teams, freelancers and agencies to create impressive and impactful promotional assets for on and off-service applications. Your role will involve expanding the capture team and its capabilities, while continuously pushing creative boundaries.

As a part of Netflix, we strive to hire the best and value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration. We have over 230 million paid members in over 190 countries. If you are intelligent, resourceful, creative - and have the confidence to not let ego get in the way, we would love to hear from you!

The Role

• Compose and capture cinematic single-player and multi-player gameplay sequences for use in trailers, ads, social videos, and presentations across multiple devices;
• Find innovative solutions to achieve the best shots possible using existing in-game content and unfinished builds;
• Continuously strive to improve capture tools and workflows while supporting both creative and functional partners;
• Work closely with the other creatives, strategists, content, engineering, game creators, and Marketing teams to deliver outstanding video assets;
• Work closely with both internal teams and external agencies and freelancers to implement best practices and standards for gameplay capture, storage and delivery. 

The Ideal Candidate

• You have 4+ years of experience: 
• Creating game-related videos for a studio, company, or channel;
• Building and managing a team of freelance capture techs/artists
• Self-managing your time and projects
• Communicating directly with developers to troubleshoot issues with the game builds
• Navigating game engines and/or mod tools, and video capture software/hardware
• Generating detailed shot lists
• Organizing and tagging gameplay footage
• Has a passion for games and/or creating in-game video content;
• A talent for storytelling and creating compelling narratives
• Proficiency in capturing gameplay content based on limited briefs and rough edits
• Strong understanding of composition, cinematography, lighting, and action choreography
• Highly creative, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven
• Able to grasp new concepts quickly and easily adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Communicates with authenticity, intention, and curiosity 
• Familiarity with mobile user experience and/or mobile gaming

Personality Attributes

• See Who We Are and what our Culture is like. 
• You are passionate and curious about all aspects of av marketing creative and have an entrepreneurial mindset.
• You thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment, possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, and demonstrate strong judgment in the face of ambiguity.
• You are an agile, goal-oriented personality, driven to succeed and always up for a challenge!

You must submit an online portfolio.

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 $80,000-$350,000.

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 detail about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.