Staff Visual Product Designer, Crunchyroll

$184.8-231k

Salary only applicable for candidate in Los Angeles and may vary in further locations. + Performance Bonus

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Expert level

Los Angeles

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

Streaming service for anime and manga

Job no longer available

Streaming service for anime and manga

1001+ employees

B2CEntertainmentSaaSVideo

Job no longer available

$184.8-231k

Salary only applicable for candidate in Los Angeles and may vary in further locations. + Performance Bonus

Figma

Adobe Creative Cloud

Expert level

Los Angeles

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CEntertainmentSaaSVideo

Company mission

To create experiences for anime and manga fans, and to enable them to connect through the content they love.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

12+ years of professional visual design experience
Strong visual capabilities and a wide range of styles
Experience with brand and identity work
Experience with design programs like Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud
Demonstrate a user-centered approach and have empathy for the end-users
Experience working in an Agile development environment
Adept collaborator working with teams
Experience designing visual design language for UI
Anime fan, understanding of anime fandom, or similar fandom

What the job involves

As a Staff Visual Product Designer at Crunchyroll, you will provide Crunchyroll with a visual refresh and evolve the Crunchyroll app experience across mobile, web, and TV
This will help enhance our experiences and delight our anime fans
You will work with a team of designers who collaborate with user researchers, product management, and engineers to evolve experiences through iterative improvements and new features
You will also define and bring projects from concept to production, ensuring user goals are represented
You will handle the review process, both within the design department and with partner teams, and provide constructive input to the designs of other designers on your team
Your designs should show an understanding of the industry, our competitors, and especially empathy for our users
You will think through problems and use your design expertise to create solutions that provide our users with an outstanding user experience that is elegant, engaging, and functional
In the role of Staff Visual 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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Insights

42% female employees

9% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3)

Trustpilot (1.5)

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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