Principal Product Manager, Crunchyroll
Personalization & Search
$212.1-294k
Salary is partially dependant on applicants location.Plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
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2+ days a week in office
Streaming service for anime and manga
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Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$212.1-294k
Salary is partially dependant on applicants location.Plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
More information about location
2+ 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
- Experienced Product Innovator: 12+ years in product management and 5+ years of experience working in content personalization
- Established Practitioner: demonstrable experience overseeing and deploying personalization and recommendation systems, as well as search algorithms
- Trusted Collaborator: in this role, you’ll partner closely with a variety of teams across the company. You’ll need the ability to build deep and trusted relationships with these teams and work together in service of key shared strategic priorities
- Strategic Thinker: You’ll need to understand the landscape in which we’re operating and make frequent tradeoffs and decisions around where to invest time and resources
- Skilled Communicator: You’ll communicate your strategy and plans to executive audiences and to the company more broadly, and need the ability to communicate clearly and convincingly with a wide range of audiences
- Outcomes Driven: Ultimately, you’ll need to produce significant, measurable results against our KPIs and company Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
What the job involves
- As Principal Product Manager - Personalization, your objective is to connect our fans to the rich world of anime
- You will also help define strategies and a roadmap for algorithmic discovery, personalization, and search
- Your object is to increase discovery and engagement across our apps and products, connecting our fans to stories, games, merchandise, and more
- Personalization Strategy: help lead the development of a comprehensive personalization and recommendation strategy to increase discovery and engagement
- Search Development: help enhance our search through the application of machine learning, empowering our users to find and discover relevant stories, games, news, and merchandise
- Artificial Intelligence: assist in the exploration of emerging tools and methodologies for employing AI to solve customer and company needs
- Content & User Understanding: employ methods and practices, in collaboration with data science teams, to build a rich and actionable profile of our users and content
- Engagement KPIs: Analyze and refine Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), ensuring that our decisions are shaped by meaningful data and drive material results
- Collaboration: Work with other product leaders as well as engineering, data science, programming, marketing, legal, and compliance teams to ensure that we develop high quality, high trust products
- You will report to the Director of Product - Personalization & Curation
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
9% employee growth in 12 months
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 values
- 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
Company HQ
Lucerne - Higuera, Culver City, CA
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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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