Director, Product

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Who We Are

We’re a cast of characters working to shine a spotlight on anime. Crunchyroll is an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for fans through content (licensed, co-produced, originals, distribution), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more. Visit our About Us pages for more information about our collection of brands.

Crunchyroll COVID-19 Hiring Status

Crunchyroll employees are currently working from home, and we are still conducting remote interviews and hiring during this time. This role is expected to start remotely, and we’ll work closely with you as we understand every person has unique circumstances.

Location: San Francisco / Culver City / Dallas / New York 

Our headquarters is located in Los Angeles, where our group of cross-functional experts assemble to create experiences for our passionate communities.

About The Team

I​t's an amazing time to be joining the product team as we continue to widen our global reach as the largest anime streaming provider. The Product Team is a cornerstone of the culture and the app experience that millions of customers use every day. We’re responsible for making sure the products we ship provide innovative solutions to our five million+ subscribers / anime fans. We appreciate the value of understanding our users and championing their needs.

About the Role:

Crunchyroll is looking for a Director, Product to drive the strategy, development, execution and performance of our video-on-demand applications.To deliver the great anime content our fans desire, we need to meet our fans where they’re at not only today but in the future. You’ll direct a team of product managers building out apps supporting the various web, mobile and living room touchpoints in ways that meet the expectations of anime fans specifically in that modality. You’ll work to conceptualize, launch and measure features that will increase our fans’ love for anime both in content and in culture.

About You:

  • Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor and grow product managers of various individual contributors levels.
  • Possessing experience with building and shipping features and applications across multiple modalities (web, mobile and/or living room devices)
  • Demonstrates product instincts and the capability to balance technical, user, and business needs (and be able to mentor others to develop similar instincts)
  • Proven experience working collaboratively across cross-functional teams.
  • Can balance using an analytic, data-driven approach and a qualitative, experience-driven approach to inform and guide decisions.
  • Effective working across globally and temporally distributed teams
  • Strong written, oral and presentation communication skills.
  • Possessing a technical understanding of video streaming is helpful but not required
  • Possessing an engineering and/or user experience/design background is a plus
  • Understanding and modern experience with web and native application technologies, including responsive web, native iOS/Android app design, and connected TV/Ten Foot device development is a differentiator

Your responsibilities as Director of Product:

  • Develop, drive and reinforce the product strategy around device and application support across both existing and emergent devices to deliver fan-centric video experiences for our audience where they are today and where they'll be in the future
  • Own the competitive landscape comprehension regarding application proliferation and feature sets for direct and related competitors
  • Lead and mentor a team of product managers providing enough high-level mentorship with critical priorities to allow sufficient individual autonomy to determine how apps need to grow and evolve with our audience
  • Partner with business development to represent application product strategy to external partners and companies
  • Develop strong relationships across all functions to represent the applications' vision being both receptive to feedback and concerns while driving strongly towards execution of that vision

Benefits: Los Angeles Office:

  • Competitive salary
  • “Use What You Need” time away from work policy
  • Medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
  • Health care and dependent care FSA
  • 401(k) plan with employer match
  • Employer paid commuter benefit
  • Skilled, passionate, and fun co-workers

Questions about Crunchyroll's hiring process? Please check out our FAQ

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About Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories with the content and experiences they love. In addition to free ad-supported and subscription premium content, Crunchyroll serves the anime community across events, theatrical, games, consumer products, collectibles and manga publishing.

 Anime fans have access to one of the largest collections of licensed anime through Crunchyroll and translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast. 

The Crunchyroll app is available on over 15 platforms, including all gaming consoles.

Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan’s Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.

Our Company Values

You’ll see these in action if we’re lucky enough to have you:

  • Courage - When we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
  • Curiosity - We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
  • Service - We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
  • Kaizen - We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.