Enterprise Strategy & Initiatives Manager, Crunchyroll
$122-150k
Plus performance bonus earning potential
3 days a week in office
Streaming service for anime and manga
Be an early applicant
Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$122-150k
Plus performance bonus earning potential
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create experiences for anime and manga fans, and to enable them to connect through the content they love.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience, including management consulting or corporate strategy, with additional experience in a tech, media, or consumer business
- Experience in subscription, SVOD/streaming, or direct-to-consumer business models
- MBA or advanced degree, or equivalent experience
- Proven ability to structure ambiguous business problems and develop clear, actionable strategies
- Experience supporting senior executives and contributing to high-stakes strategic decisions
- Strong analytical skills, including building business cases and financial/operational models (Excel/Sheets)
- Experience developing executive-ready presentations and decision materials
- Track record of driving cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders to deliver outcomes
- Sound judgment and discretion in high-visibility or sensitive situations
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a high-potential strategic partner to senior leadership to support enterprise priorities at Crunchyroll. As Enterprise Strategy & Initiatives Manager in the Office of the President, you’ll help structure key decisions, support company-wide planning, and drive execution on high-impact initiatives
- You’ll report to the Director of Enterprise Strategy & Initiatives, and work closely with the Chief of Staff and senior leaders across the company, ensuring priorities are clear, decisions are well-informed, and work moves forward
- Support company-wide strategic planning and key enterprise initiatives
- Structure complex problems into clear analyses, recommendations, and action plans
- Build high-quality presentations, analyses, and briefing materials for senior leadership
- Support leadership forums (SMT, offsites, executive reviews), ensuring materials, discussions, and outputs are clear and actionable
- Drive follow-through on key priorities by tracking decisions, actions, and owners
- Support cross-functional initiatives by structuring workplans, identifying risks, and driving resolution
- Help unblock workstreams and escalate issues to keep initiatives on track
- Support high-visibility company programming (e.g., leadership meetings, VP+ forums)
- Conduct research and contribute to recommendations that inform leadership decisions
- The Enterprise Strategy & Initiatives team extends the capacity of the President and drives Crunchyroll’s highest-priority work. We are a small, high-impact group that operates across strategy and execution to solve critical problems, align leaders, and move the business forward with speed and clarity
Our take
In recent decades, anime - encompassing Japanese, Korean, and Chinese animation 0 has transitioned from a niche interest to a formidable industry, boasting a global market worth approximately $30B. Despite this growth, distribution has historically posed challenges, with series and films often reaching overseas audiences through disparate channels, if at all. Crunchyroll emerged to address this issue by consolidating the largest collection of anime into a single streaming service.
Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll in 2021 for $1.75B expanded the platform's reach, integrating Sony's extensive animation library into its offerings. this move also positioned Crunchyroll for heightened competition against streaming giant Netflix, known for its substantial investments in anime production and acquisition. Currently, Crunchyroll maintains an unrivaled library of anime content, boasting over 44,000 episodes that have attracted over 0M paying subscribers.
While Crunchyroll initially offered a free, ad-supported tier to its vast community, it appears poised to phase out this option, transitioning to a subscription-based model for all new series. Despite this shift, the platform has implemented a global reduction in fees to stimulate subscription uptake. The success of this strategy remains to be seen, but past experiences with companies like Hulu suggest that it may drive subscription growth and mitigate piracy
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2010
$0.8m
EARLY VC
Feb 2008
$4.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $4.9m
Company benefits
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
Company HQ
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Kun Gao
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Crunchyroll in 2006 and served as CEO/General Manager/Board Member until 2018. Previously the founder and CTO of Frappr.com as well as a Product Engineer at HOT or NOT.
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