About the job At Netflix, our mission is to entertain the world. Together, we are writing the next episode - pushing the boundaries of storytelling, global fandom and making the unimaginable a reality. We are a dream team obsessed with the uncomfortable excitement of discovering what happens when you merge creativity, intuition and cutting-edge technology. Come be a part of what’s next. The Opportunity Marketing’s purpose at Netflix is to entertain by creating affinity, engagement, and loyalty to our brand, titles, and talent. Within that, Kids & Family is a unique opportunity and challenge: we are building meaningful, trust-based relationships with young audiences and the parents, caregivers, and families who choose Netflix—balancing kid-first joy with parent-led decision-making, safety, and value. We are looking for a Marketing Manager, Kids & Family Series to join the UCAN Title Marketing Genre & Family team. In this role, you will be a key strategic leader across our Preschool, Kids, and Family series slates, responsible for developing and launching campaigns for a dynamic range of animated, unscripted, and eventized co-viewing titles. You will help shape how our stories show up in culture and how families discover and fall in love with them. The Role The Netflix Series Marketing team seeks a Title Marketing Manager who is an expert and visionary in the preschool and kids space. This manager will not only lead the day-to-day development and execution of 360 marketing campaigns but also serve as a subject matter expert across emerging generations (Alpha and GenZ). The ideal candidate is highly collaborative with a background across pre-school/kids marketing (deep knowledge in 360 tactics to reach these audiences - strategies across YouTube, Influencers, Partnerships, etc.), a strategic mindset, and a strong creative point-of-view. Core Responsibilities Lead end-to-end Kids & Family Series campaigns – from strategy and consumer insight development through creative execution, production, launch, and post-launch optimization as titles evolve into always-on brands. This role requires fluency across distinct age segments—Preschool, Kids, Tweens, and Family Co-Viewing—understanding how strategy, creative tone, platform mix, and success metrics differ across each. Candidates should be comfortable tailoring campaigns differently for parent-driven discovery (Preschool), kid-driven fandom (Kids), and shared household viewing moments (Family). Act as a key point of contact for cross-functional partners (content, consumer products, regional marketing, publicity, communications, creative marketing production, product, editorial, and others) to ensure alignment on strategy, positioning, and goals. Partner deeply with Consumer Products to help shape franchises—identifying characters, worlds, and narratives that can live beyond the screen and reinforce trust, longevity, and repeat engagement with families. Project manage cross-functional campaign initiatives, including leading, organizing, and mobilizing internal task forces and brainstorming sessions, as well as external filmmaker/talent kickoffs and presentations. Write clear, inspiring creative briefs that translate strategy and insights into actionable direction for internal and external creative partners. Provide high-level filmmaker and talent management and support across the slate, building trust and alignment around campaign strategy and creative. Communicate and advocate for campaign strategy and creative in lively discussions with filmmakers, talent, and colleagues across the company. Partner with product and engineering to integrate campaigns into the Netflix member experience, exploring how product surfaces can support discovery, engagement, and fandom. Demonstrate strong verbal, written, and presentation skills, leading meetings and managing workflows with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. Who You Are Passionate You have a deep passion for Kids, Family, YA, Animation, and/or gaming, and a strong understanding of the broader entertainment landscape. You understand the dual-audience reality of Kids & Family marketing: inspiring kids while earning the confidence of parents, caregivers, and co-viewers. You bring experience reaching Gen Z and Gen Alpha audiences and are fluent in the trends, platforms, and behaviors that shape how they discover and engage with content. Platform-Led You have a deep understanding of the social and digital ecosystem, including how new behaviors emerge and evolve across platforms. You bring deep expertise in YouTube as a Kids & Family ecosystem—understanding long-form vs. Shorts behavior, creator adjacency, algorithmic discovery for younger audiences, and how parents evaluate trust, safety, and educational or emotional value on the platform. 360° Campaign Architect You have a proven track record of building integrated, world-class campaigns that connect with audiences and break through the cultural zeitgeist. You think beyond launches to build franchises and brands, and you are curious about all aspects of marketing (mobile, paid and organic social, broadcast, OOH, experiential, and emerging platforms). You strive to create impactful, cohesive storytelling across every touchpoint. Brand Safety Champion Serve as a steward of brand trust in the Kids & Family space, ensuring campaigns align with platform safety standards, age-appropriate messaging, and Netflix’s responsibility to parents, caregivers, and young audiences. Familiarity with marketing considerations related to COPPA, child-directed advertising standards, and brand safety best practices is a plus. Proven Leader You are a natural leader who can set strategy, define a clear creative vision, and rally teams around it. You are comfortable making decisions with imperfect information and guiding partners through ambiguity. Cross-Functional Collaborator You are an effective partner to content, consumer products, regional marketing, publicity, communications, product, editorial, and more. You engage early, listen actively, and align teams on shared goals, then see that collaboration through launch and beyond. Multi-Tasker In A Matrix You thrive in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment with multiple campaigns in flight. The Kids & Family slate is large and varied; you know how to prioritize, sequence, and allocate resources to drive the greatest impact. High Global IQ You have experience working on global or multi-market campaigns and are comfortable partnering with teams across regions. You understand how to balance local nuance with global consistency. Innovator & Fandom Builder You are passionate about innovation in storytelling and distribution. You have experience designing out-of-the-box social and digital strategies that nurture fandom, encourage participation, and use platforms in new and unexpected ways. You understand how success is measured differently in Kids & Family—beyond launch awareness to signals like repeat viewing, habitual engagement, franchise affinity, and parental trust. Tech-Forward You appreciate technology and enjoy partnering with product and engineering teams. You are excited by the opportunity to integrate campaigns into the Netflix product experience and explore how product surfaces can deepen engagement with Kids & Family titles. You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are eager to thrive within Netflix’s unique culture (see “Who We Are”). Skills & Requirements 10+ years of experience building strategic and creative consumer marketing campaigns, ideally at a streaming platform, network, studio, global brand, or creative/advertising agency, with meaningful experience in Kids & Family or animated entertainment (TV, film, or gaming). A track record of leading in fast-paced, relationship-driven environments, with the ability to influence and inspire without relying on formal authority. Experience managing a high volume of campaigns in parallel, collaborating with diverse, geographically dispersed teams. Native understanding of digital and social advertising, including direct video, mobile, paid social, display, rich media, and VOD, with a particularly strong grasp of YouTube and how to best leverage it for Kids & Family marketing. Strong interpersonal, creative, presentation, problem-solving, negotiation, influencing, facilitation, organizational, prioritization, decision-making, analytical, and conflict-resolution skills. A genuine passion for Kids & Family and animated content and a desire to build brands and franchises that families love. Location & Reporting This role is based in Los Angeles, CA. The manager will report into the UCAN Director Animation, Kids & Family and partner closely with peers across genre verticals. 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 $210,000.00 - $339,000.00. 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. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here. 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.
MoreLacorsa: Grand Prix Game   Gameplay Lacorsa is a racing game inspired by the Grand Prix. Players race their cars up a gameboard by challenging other players, striving to be the leading driver. Strategically play your hand of cards to beat out other players for higher spots on the leaderboard and earn the most points by the end of the seven-round Championship to win!   The game comes with a racing gameboard, six racecars, a die, a deck of cards, 20 Maker Cards, and a Championship Scorepad. If you’re playing with two or three players, each player gets two cars, and if you’re playing with four to six players, each player gets one car. Next, you must build the correct deck size, using one suit of cards for each racecar in the game. After you have your deck, shuffle and deal an equal number of cards to each player.   There are six different types of cards: Extend (1) – you can move one space forward; is worth one point in a challenge Extend (2) – you can move one space forward; is worth two points in a challenge Drafting Extend (3) – you can move one space forward; is worth three points in a challenge. The leading car cannot play this card to extend Standard (4-11) – worth face value in a challenge Champion (12) – worth 12 points in a challenge (this is the highest card that can be played!) Redline card (R) – worthless on its own (zero points in a challenge), but can be played with any other card to add two points   To begin the game, players sort through their cards and decide which card(s) they want to use to compete for a spot on the board. The player with the highest card gets to be in front, and the player with the lowest card at the back. Cards are worth face value, but a Redline card can be played with another card to increase your point value by two points. If there’s a tie for highest card(s), roll the die to decide who wins.   After discarding the cards played during the qualifying round, challenges can begin. The race starts with the last place car challenging the car directly in front of them. A challenge is simple: each player plays a card (or two with a Redline card) and the highest card(s) win. If the car behind wins, the cars switch positions. If the car in front wins or there is a tie, the positions remain the same. If you lose the challenge you initiated, your turn is over, however, if you win the challenge, you may challenge the next car in front of you as well, but you may only pass up to two racecars per turn.   If you win a challenge and there is an open space directly in front of your racecar, you can play an Extend card and move up one space. You can only extend one space regardless of if you play a 1, 2, or 3 Extend card. Also, the leading car cannot use the Drafting Extend card to extend, but can use the 1 or 2 Extend card. If you can’t extend, you must discard to end your turn.   Play continues, with the racecar in last beginning again after the leading car’s turn. The race ends when a player runs out of cards but play continues with the next car ahead and the final lap is completed.   After the last lap is completed, add up your points, which is based on finishing position: 1st place = 9 points 2nd place = 6 points 3rd place = 4 points 4th place = 3 points 5th place = 2 points 6th place = 1 point   Whoever has the most points at the end of the seven-round Championship wins!   History Lacorsa was created by Mark Haskins. He writes that his inspiration for the game came from his love for racing and racing video games as a child. A few years after graduating from the ArtCenter College of Design with a degree in Transportation Design in 1991, he joined Vans, eventually becoming Vice President of Global Product Design in Footwear and Apparel. All the while, he was designing Lacorsa, which came out in 2018 after being funded on Kickstarter in 2016.   “This game came about by simplifying the essence of racing down to its core. Cars battling for position,” Mark writes.   Variations To add on to your Lacorsa game, you can purchase expansion bundles. There are different expansion bundles available for purchase that are based off of different seasons of the Grand Prix (e.g. the 1968 racecar set in Papaya Orange or the 1966 racecar set in Yamura Green).    
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Award-winning Portal innovation arrives in CONNETIX’s signature pastel palette, recognised as a London Toy Fair Hero Toy winner for STEM Education.   February 19, 2026 – Global award-winning Australian magnetic tile brand CONNETIX has announced the release of its 48 Piece Pastel Portal Pack, extending its breakthrough Portal design into the brand’s signature soft, earthy pastel tones.   Featuring two sizes of open-frame Portal tiles designed to nest neatly together, alongside mini squares powered by Smart-Spin™ technology that allows the magnets to rotate up to 360 degrees, the Pastel Portal Pack unlocks new ways to connect, overlap and build in multiple directions, enabling more ambitious, layered designs that extend beyond traditional magnetic tile play.   The new release has already been named a London Toy Fair Hero Toy winner in the STEM Education category, recognising its contribution to innovative, skill-building play.   The launch follows a landmark year of innovation for CONNETIX in 2025 with the debut of the Bright Portal Pack, which earned a Platinum Award from the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio for excellence in preschool play and was featured in top-tier media outlets like Romper, The Sunday Mirror and NBC’s The Today Show in the U.S. The Bright Portal Pack exceeded expectations globally with families, educators and retailers, confirming strong demand for more advanced construction play.   “The response to the Bright Portal Pack surpassed what we anticipated,” says Glenn Harrison, Director of Sales at CONNETIX. “It showed builders were ready for more complex construction play. Bringing that same innovation into pastels was a natural next step.”   The Portal concept emerged from a hands-on product development challenge set by CEO and co-founder Brea Brand: could CONNETIX continue to keep pace with a child’s imagination? Through daily open-ended play and experimentation, the team engineered solutions to builds that once felt impossible – leading to the creation of the open-frame Portal tile and mini tile with rotating magnets.   Fully compatible with the entire CONNETIX range, the Pastel Portal Pack integrates seamlessly into existing collections while opening up new ways to build, imagine and play.   The CONNETIX Pastel Portal Pack will be available in March at select global retailers and at connetixtiles.com.
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