Senior Product Designer, Crunchyroll
Content Discovery
+ Performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
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
+ Performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
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
- 8+ years of professional design experience
- Strong visual capabilities and a range of styles
- Demonstrate a user-centered approach to designing software and services
- Experience designing for content discovery and personalization
- Experience with design programs like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
- Proficient knowledge and skill in wireframing, prototyping, and UI and interaction design
- Experience designing responsive websites, mobile apps, or living room experiences
- Effective storytelling skills and an ability to present design work
- Experience working with design systems, guidelines, and other standard methodologies
- Experience using data and research insights to advise in design decision
- Experience working with partners to align on technical limitations to deliver good experiences for users and business leaders
- Bachelor’s degree in digital design or related field
Desirable
- Experience with Living Room Experience
- Experience working in streaming or entertainment industry
- Experience with A/B testing and ideating the experiments
- Experience with motion capabilities
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Designer at Crunchyroll, you will be responsible for the design and user experience of the Crunchyroll service to create innovative content discovery features for our global anime fans.
- As an individual contributor, you will work in a team of designers who collaborate with user researchers, product management, and engineers to evolve the user experience through iterative improvements and new features.
- Your designs should show a deep understanding of design best practices, the industry and our competitors, business needs, and most importantly, empathy for our users.
- You will think through complex problems and use your design expertise to create solutions that provide our users with an outstanding user experience that is both elegant and functional
- In the role of Senior Product Designer, you will report to the Director, Product Design
- The Product Design department is a distributed team responsible for creating Crunchyroll's video streaming services
- Our work encompasses the new Crunchyroll website, the mobile apps, and the TV experiences
- Our mission is to provide a fabulous and engaging user experience for lovers of anime and manga content everywhere!
- As a partner to business, product, and engineering groups, we collaborate with teams across the company to identify the right problems and ensure that our solutions satisfy the goals of both the business and the end-user
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
Lucerne - Higuera, Culver City, CA
Leadership
Kun Gao
(Co-Founder)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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