Sous Chef

Netflix Studios; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Netflix Studios in Rochester, NY is hiring a Sous Chef to operate in a fast-paced environment with autonomy and a strong mentorship culture. The role requires owning decisions in a New York market and delivering measurable, customer-focused outcomes.

The team emphasizes collaboration, clear communication, and balancing critical priorities while maintaining high standards of quality and service. Competitive salary is part of an offering that includes mentorship, benefits, and flexibility for NY

Qualifications

• Sous Chef experience or equivalent in a fast-paced kitchen.
• Ability to mentor teammates while guiding decisions.
• Comfort working in a New York market context and pace.

Responsibilities

• Resolve customer concerns with patience and focus on outcomes.
• Keep leadership honest with numbers they can act on.
• Balance multiple priorities without losing critical ones.
• Push back respectfully when shortcuts cost long-term value.
• Bring general instinct to problems not covered by the playbook.
• Trade quick wins for customer-obsessed fixes when justified.
• Turn ambiguous inventory requests into shipped, measurable outcomes.

Skills

Fast-paced environment

Mentoring

Decision ownership (NY market)

Problem solving

Job description

Ever wanted a Sous Chef job where $40,000 - $58,000 comes with autonomy instead of a longer leash? Read on; Netflix Studios is hiring in Rochester, NY. The thing worth noting is how much Netflix Studios trusts you here — $40,000 - $58,000, general ownership, and a long runway, all from 1 years in.

Key Responsibilities

• Resolve customer concerns with patience and a focus on outcomes
• Keep Netflix Studios leadership honest with numbers they can act on
• Juggle employee-centric priorities without dropping the ones that matter
• Push back, respectfully, when a Flexibility shortcut will cost us later
• Bring 1 of general instinct to problems the playbook misses
• Trade quick wins for customer-obsessed fixes when the math favors patience
• Turn ambiguous Inventory Management requests into shipped, measurable outcomes

What You'll Bring

• Comfort with a Netflix Studios pace that rarely sits still
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard
• Comfort owning general decisions in a NY market
• Proven Mixology judgment when the textbook answer doesn't fit

Netflix Studios turned a frustration with general into an experiment-friendly business that now serves customers far beyond NY. Our Rochester team would rather over-communicate than leave a teammate guessing at midnight.

We seal the offer with $40,000 - $58,000, mentorship, benefits, and flexibility, the four reasons NY talent picks Netflix Studios first.

We bumped the date today, signaling this Sous Chef search is ongoing.

Don't let a quality-obsessed Sous Chef opening in Rochester become the one that got away.