Principal Technical Program Manager, Crunchyroll
Service Monetization
$182-210k
Office located in Culver City, CA
Streaming service for anime and manga
Job no longer available
Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$182-210k
Office located in Culver City, CA
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
- 6+ years experience in program management within software development delivery teams building out subscriptions and payments (first and third party) services platforms
- Successful track record of leading large, complex programs that deliver technical solutions across multiple project teams
- Familiarity with code designs principles, testing principles and standard methodologies
- Ability to take an active role in leading and encouraging innovation in the payments and subscriptions space
- Experience working with multiple external vendors in the subscriptions and payments industry
- Ability to collaborate to define both short term and long term technical strategies for your teams
- Understanding of software development processes and knowledge of the Agile SDLC process
- Ability to navigate contending product and technical priorities while identifying options and trade-offs as needed
- Ability to collaborate and coordinate with multiple team members to clearly define outcomes, create plans, qualify success, mitigate risks, and communicate
- An ability adapt quickly to changes in business requirements and work in an agile environment
- Experience designing and implementing cross-functional process changes that impact the wider organization
- Succinct, clear verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical audiences
- Possesses strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Quick learner, innovative, proactive, flexible, and adaptable
What the job involves
- Promote and evolve the company’s processes to enable closer synchronization between Program Management, Product Management, Engineering, Quality, Development Operations, and Product Design
- Lead planning and execution of high impact programs and teams
- Build, lead, and supervise progress on release plans across multiple engineering initiatives
- Proactively identify and mitigate program risks, remove blockers, advance progress, and seek leadership support early and soon
- Anticipate and mitigate team and program risks
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to supervise dependencies, plan releases, and to resolve blocking issues
- Communication on team’s program and initiative status to management
- Fulfill scrum master role on multiple teams
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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