It’s really no secret that Netflix has grand plans to expand its global footprint that now feeds media to some 20 million North American subscribers. Hell, the organization was boasting of the “significant dollars” allocated to its 2011 international expansion plans just four months ago. While nothing’s official yet, we’ve unearthed several tantalizing openings posted to the Netflix job site during the last few days that could point to an imminent launch. Notably, Netflix’s customer service answering services company in Hillsboro Oregon is preparing to grow its scope of operations beyond North America. Two new job postings for a Training Supervisor and Quality Assurance Analyst both mention the need to get ready for “rapid” international expansion and “will support a particular country / region outside of The united states.” The Training Supervisor has been hired specifically to teach customer service reps in preparation for that future international growth. Neflix is looking for fluency in English along with Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), and Spanish (Latin American and European), leaving things pretty wide open regarding the countries targeted for initial launch.
We can say for certain that Netflix had plans to launch in the united kingdom long ago in 2004 — plans which were ultimately scrapped in order to focus on its core US business (and later Canada). But when not the UK only then do we should a minimum of expect to see Netflix target the European continent first if your statement related to CEO Reed Hastings from long ago in January of 2010 still rings true: “the big marketplace for Hollywood content (following the U.S.) is Europe…Third is Asia. Fourth is the rest of the world.” Can’t let Amazon possess the sell to itself now can we Reed?