Emily Feingold, Netflix‘s longtime communications chief, is exiting the streaming big after eight years.
Feingold was employed in 2017 as communications director and was promoted in 2022 to VP of communications. It’s unclear why the well-respected Feingold is leaving Netflix, an organization whose profile she helped elevate and whose status she protected fiercely throughout her tenure. Puck first reported the information of Feingold’s departure.
At Netflix, Feingold helped because the streamer moved into unique manufacturing. Early viewership successes and Oscar-nominees, together with Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and “Extraction” with Chris Hemsworth, debuted throughout her first years on the firm. She later oversaw all communications for the U.S. and Canada and was key in crafting the messages across the Netflix’s shifts into promoting, gaming, dwell occasions, and in addition to the latest Warner Bros. acquisition. (Netflix in the end bowed out of the bidding war for Warner Bros. and paved the way in which for Paramount Skydance to amass the legacy media big.)
Feingold’s departure comes as Netflix introduced on new management of its media relations staff, together with the latest hires of chief communications officer Dani Dudeck and VP of world company communications Kelly Pakula. The streamer additionally made two further hires on the comms staff, senior director of product and know-how comms Malorie Lucich in addition to head of U.S. coverage comms and exterior affairs Caitlin Conant.
Previous to Netflix, Feingold served as senior VP of company technique and communications at Andell, a non-public funding agency. She beforehand spent 13 years at New York-based firms together with Ralph Lauren and the Weinstein Firm. Feingold started her profession in Washington, D.C., working on the White Home throughout the Clinton administration.
“Emily has been a dedicated member of the Netflix team for eight years, making meaningful contributions throughout her tenure,” stated Dudeck, who was employed in late 2025. “We’re deeply grateful for all she has done for our team and for the company, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors.”
