Crunchyroll Career Opportunities

Crunchyroll, Inc. is a rapidly growing new media and tech startup located in San Francisco and Tokyo. We are looking for high-caliber individuals to join our small but highly-skilled team. Our standards are very high and we expect you to work hard and deliver results but have fun doing so. We offer flexible hours, free food, health care, stock options, and competitive salaries. Best of all, you will make a difference to the 6+ million people who use our services every month. Crunchyroll is well-funded by Silicon Valley angels and institutional investors.

If you're excited about bringing Asian content to the masses, join us today!

To apply, send resumes to jobs@crunchyroll.com. For technical positions, please include code samples and other references. For creative positions, please include your demo reel or portfolio. Our review process may take up to two weeks. Due to the large number of applicants we receive, we may be unable to respond if we have passed on your submission.
iOS Application Developer
Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals to help us extend our video service to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The ideal candidate is able to create a high quality product that users will love.

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 1-3 years experience at a media or tech startup preferred
  • Expert in Objective-C
  • Familiarity with iOS SDK or can learn quickly
  • Strong web experience with LAMP (PHP)
Android Application Developer
Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals to help us extend our video service to Android smartphones, tablets, and TVs. The ideal candidate is able to create a high quality product that users will love.

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 1-3 years experience at a media or tech startup preferred
  • Expert in Java
  • Familiarity with Android SDK or can learn quickly
  • Strong web experience with LAMP (PHP)
Web Developer
Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals to help us create highly usable web experiences. The ideal candidate is fluent in both creating dynamic webpages powered by Javascript and CSS, as well as scripting with PHP and interfacing with MySQL.

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 2-3 years experience at a media or tech startup preferred
  • Expert in frontend (HTML, Javascript, AJAX, CSS)
  • Expert in backend (Linux, PHP, Python, MySQL)
  • Must be able to learn quickly and pick up new technologies
Server Engineer
Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals to maintain and create internal APIs for our website and client applications, including iOS, Android, and set top boxes.

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 2-3 years experience at a media or tech startup preferred
  • Expert in PHP and Python
  • Expert in MySQL
  • Must be able to learn quickly and pick up new technologies
Product Designer
Full-Time, San Francisco
Responsibilities:
  • Work with the product development team to create an exceptional user experience for web, mobile, and TV.
  • Design layouts and flows for web and smartphone applications.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in design, engineering or related
  • Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript
  • Expert in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
  • An exceptional eye for beautiful design and usability
  • Detail-oriented, be able to tweak digital graphics at the pixel level and adjust the smallest shades of color
Product Manager
Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who can create, manage, and maintain our products. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of the technologies we use as well as a knack for creating simple, usable products.

Responsibilities:
  • Oversee new product development, which includes our websites and mobile apps
  • Maintain and improve existing products by determing how to streamline features
  • Schedule milestones and task deadlines and allocate resources accordingly
  • Work with design team to create product specifications and mockups
  • Work with product development team to implement new products and changes to existing products
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering. Computer Science strongly preferred.
  • 1-3 years experience at a startup
  • Self-motivated, smart, innovative
  • Very good written and oral communication skills
Systems Administrator
Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals to maintain our high-traffic website and video streaming service.

Responsibilities:
  • Maximize uptime, availability, security, and scalability of the production environment
  • Maintain backups of critical data and systems
  • Provide 24x7x365 support for live systems (shared pager duty)
Requirements:
  • Bachelors in Computer Science or related field
  • 3-5 years experience with Linux systems administration and LAMP stack
  • Fluency in at least one scripting language (PHP, Perl, or Python)
  • Familiarity with security tools (ssh, nmap, tcp wrappers, cops, tripwire)
  • Strong understanding of IP networking
  • Working knowldge of HA strategies (RAID, clustering)
  • Strong MySQL administration a plus (replication, failover)
Software Engineer Intern
Internship, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated college students or recent graduates looking to work at a startup. The ideal candidate has strong coding skills and can learn new technologies quickly. Successful internships may be followed by an offer for a full-time position.

Responsibilities:
  • Design, plan, execute, and complete a new project that is relevant to our current services and products
  • Provide support for the product development team
Requirements:
  • Bachelors in Computer Science (in progress or completed)
  • Strong foundation in Computer Science (data structures, algorithms, programming languages, operating systems, databases)
  • Experience in web or mobile app development preferred
Advertising Sales
Full-Time, San Francisco or remote
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who can sell big brands against our content and massive audience.

Responsibilities:
  • Drive revenue through strategic and direct sales as well as key alliance building
  • Develop, manage and maintain strong relationships with new and existing clients
  • Prepare RFPs with a high degree of professionalism and quality
  • Target, cold call, and close on potential clients
  • Keep up-to-date with latest Internet advertisement trends and technologies
Requirements:
  • 5+ years in a senior advertising role
  • Extensive experience in web advertising, e-commerce
  • Proven track record of structuring and managing negotiations to successful closure and delivery
  • Track record of exceeding sales quotas between $1 and $2m
  • Prior experience working with top advertising agencies
  • Video sales expertise a big plus
  • Strong ethics
  • Bachelor's degree required, MBA desired
Business Development, US
Full-Time, San Francisco or remote
We are looking for highly-motivated, keen individuals who can manage and develop key strategic partnerships for our video business.

Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain relationships with new and existing content partners
  • Develop strategic partnerships that meaningfully increase our audience or revenue, through content acquisition and distribution deals
Requirements:
  • Strong, up-to-date knowledge of the media industry, both new and old, from cable/broadcast/satellite to connected TVs and mobile
  • Ambitious, self-motivated, innovative
  • 3+ years experience in content licensing
  • Strong ethics
  • Bachelor's degree required, MBA desired
Content Acquisition and Licensing (South Korea)
Full-Time, Seoul
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who can bring high-quality content from South Korea to our massive worldwide audience.

Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain relationships with new and existing content partners
  • Acquire professionally-produced video content from key partners
Requirements:
  • Fluency in English and Korean
  • Ambitious, self-motivated, innovative
  • Experience in Korean content licensing
  • Strong ethics
  • Bachelor's degree required, MBA desired
Marketing and Brand Manager (Japanese)
Full-Time, San Francisco or Tokyo
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who love our anime content and know how to reach large audiences online.

Responsibilities:
  • Create marketing plans for new titles
  • Design marketing channels for Japanese content partners
  • Market our titles and website online and offline via conventional and guerilla methods
  • Coordinate with Japanese content partners to design and approve creatives
  • Keep up-to-date on content (watch our anime!)
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Fluency in Japanese
  • Experience in consumer marketing, both online and offline
  • Ready to frequently brainstorm, test, and iterate on new marketing campaigns
  • Fan of anime, manga, and other Asian content
Marketing and Brand Manager (Korean)
Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who love our content and know how to reach large audiences online.

Responsibilities:
  • Create marketing plans for new titles
  • Design marketing channels for content partners
  • Coordinate with content partners to design and approve creatives
  • Market our titles and website online and offline via conventional and guerilla methods
  • Keep up-to-date on content (watch our Korean dramas!)
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Fluency in Korean
  • Experience in consumer marketing, both online and offline
  • Ready to frequently brainstorm, test, and iterate on new marketing campaigns
  • Fan of Korean dramas, pop culture, and other Asian content
Translator and Subtitler (Japanese)
Full-Time or Contractor, San Francisco or Tokyo or potentially remote
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who can localize our Japanese content to English-speaking audiences.

Responsibilities:
  • Time, translate, typeset and/or QC anime and live-action titles to English (both catalog and simulcast)
  • Potentially translate manga to English
  • Translate web pages and other static text to Japanese
Requirements:
  • Fluency in Japanese, both writing and speaking
  • Fluency in English, both writing and speaking
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work with aggressive deadlines for simulcasts
  • Familiarity with Aegisub and .ssa subtitle format
  • Experience subtitling anime and/or manga a big plus
Subtitle Timer
Contractor, San Francisco or Tokyo or potentially remote
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who can assist in the localization of our Japanese content by timing subtitles.

Responsibilities:
  • Time, typeset and/or QC anime and live-action titles (both catalog and simulcast)
  • Edit and transcode videos
Requirements:
  • Familiarity with Japanese language
  • Fluency in English, both writing and speaking
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work with aggressive deadlines for simulcasts
  • Previous experience with timing subtitles
  • Familiarity with Aegisub and .ssa subtitle format
Customer Service Representative
Full-Time (Contractor), San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals with good people skills who love to help people.

Responsibilities:
  • Respond to customer service emails in an effective and efficient manner
  • Interact with users and answer user questions on the website and in the forums
  • Provide general help for users and report important problems to your co-workers
Requirements:
  • 1+ year working in a customer service role in an Internet/software company
  • Care deeply about the customer experience and want to help users
  • Excellent written English skills
  • Ability to juggle multiple tasks and contribute in a fast-paced, startup environment
  • Having prior knowledge of anime and other Asian content and/or Crunchyroll is a plus
  • Able to check email and monitor issues on weekend is a plus
  • 4-year college degree is preferred
Crunchyroll Convention Ambassador
Part-Time (Contractor), San Francisco
We are looking for someone who loves anime, is a huge fan of Crunchyroll, and loves attending anime conventions. Crunchyroll is the leading online Asian video site and social network. Crunchyroll streams anime and Asian live action content to an engaged and passionate audience of over 5 million unique visitors each month. We attend 5-10 conventions every year and are looking for someone who would like to join our team in traveling around the country to promote the Crunchyroll brand.

Responsibilities:
  • Strategically approach convention attendees to sign up new users
  • Continually educate convention attendees about Crunchyroll
  • Develop a positive and personal relationship with show staff and management
  • Actively maintain a professional yet friendly presence
  • Assist in the set-up and take-down of the booth
Requirements:
  • Highly-motivated, energetic individual who's a team-player
  • Familiarity with Crunchyroll and its content (mainly anime)
  • Coordinate/Handle convention video screenings, meetups, etc.
  • Ability to research and book own cost effective travel arrangements (flight tickets, hotel lodging, transportation from airport, rental car, etc.)
  • Proficient in basic computer networking skills highly favorable
  • Enjoys interacting with many people
  • Independent and adaptable to the ever-changing and unpredictable fast-paced convention environment
  • Ability to travel for 7 days at a time
  • Valid driver's license
  • Perfect for someone who is a student, freelancing, or working part-time
What we offer:
  • Ability to travel around the country to anime conventions
  • Compensated travel & food expenses
  • Driven, motivated, and talented young team that enjoys their work
  • Convention stipend