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We are a rapidly growing startup in San Francisco and Tokyo
and are looking for high-caliber individuals to join our small but talented team.

Flexible hours, free food, health care, stock options, and competitive salaries!
Best of all, you will make a difference to millions of people who use our services every day.

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Current Openings

To apply, send resumé and relevant materials to jobs@crunchyroll.com.
For technical positions, please include code samples and other references.
For creative positions, please include your portfolio.

Full-Stack 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

Product Designer (UI/UX)

Full-Time, San Francisco
Responsibilities
  • Work with the development team to create an exceptional user experience for web, mobile, and TV
  • Design and code UI/UX for web, mobile, and TV 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

Mobile Application Developer

Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals to work on our iOS, Android, Windows, and other mobile apps.

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 1-3 years experience at a media or tech startup preferred
  • Expert in Objective-C or Java
  • Familiarity with iOS, Android, or Windows Phone SDK
  • Strong web experience with LAMP (PHP/Python)

Server Engineer

Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals to maintain and create internal APIs for our web, mobile, and TV applications.

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

Technical 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 and current products, which includes our websites and mobile apps
  • Schedule milestones and task deadlines and allocate resources accordingly
  • Work with design and engineering team to deliver high quality products
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 1-3 years experience at a startup
  • Self-motivated, smart, innovative
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

Senior Systems Administrator

Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly motivated individuals to maintain and grow our high-traffic website and video streaming service.

You'll be an instrumental part in running a network that is:
  • The top anime streaming service in the world
  • Serves hundreds of millions of pageviews a month, millions of unique users
  • 100+ servers from commodity webservers to enterprise databases
  • Custom built high density, low cost video serving and storage
You must
  • Be familiar with datacenter operations and best practices
  • Share on-call responsibility
  • Have a solid understanding of Linux and web technologies
  • Be familiar with CentOS and Puppet
  • Have a solid understanding of networking concepts and troubleshooting
  • Be able to pick up new technology and apply with best practices, performance, maintainability and cost in mind
  • Be a tinkerer and problem solver
Responsibilities
  • Maximize reliability and performance of all systems
  • Architect, plan and manage new systems and services
  • Maintain and improve automated system installation & configuration
  • Maintain and improve our uniform software stack
  • Maintain technical and business relations with vendors
  • Perform routine security audits and respond to arising issues
  • Run an effective infrastructure
You'll be able to
  • Have an active role in planning product requirements
  • Play with new technology and hardware
  • Participate in infrastructure architecting, building and maintaining

Ideally you are familiar with core web technology include Linux, httpd/nginx, BIND, Puppet, varnish, memcached, MySQL, Solr, MemSQL, hadoop etc. Also familiarity with hardware such as F5 Big-IP, Dell, Cisco is a plus.

Systems Administrator

Full-Time, San Francisco
We are looking for highly motivated individuals to maintain and grow our high-traffic website and video streaming service.

You'll be an instrumental part in running a network that is:
  • The top anime streaming service in the world
  • Serves hundreds of millions of pageviews a month, millions of unique users
  • 100+ servers from commodity webservers to enterprise databases
  • Custom built high density, low cost video serving and storage
You must
  • Be familiar with datacenter operations and best practices
  • Share on-call responsibility
  • Have a solid understanding of Linux and web technologies
  • Be familiar with CentOS and Puppet
  • Be familiar with HA and redundancy best practices
Responsibilities
  • Maintain and develop our automated system installation & configuration
  • Work with engineering to setup and configure new systems to spec
  • Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues
  • Perform routine security audits and apply security patches
  • Build and maintain the software stack
You'll be able to
  • Have an active role in planning product requirements
  • Play with new technology and hardware

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

Marketing and Brand Manager (Japanese or Korean)

Full-Time, San Francisco or Tokyo
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who love our video content and know how to reach large audiences online.

Responsibilities
  • Create marketing plans for new titles
  • Design marketing channels for Japanese or Korean 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 or Korean dramas!)
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Fluency in Japanese or Korean
  • Keep up-to-date on content (watch our Korean dramas!)
  • Experience in consumer marketing, both online and offline
  • Ready to frequently brainstorm, test, and iterate on new marketing campaigns
  • Fan of anime, manga, Korean dramas, pop culture, and other Asian content

Translator and Subtitler (Japanese)

Part-Time (Contractor), San Francisco, or 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 Script Editor (Japanese)

Part-Time (Contractor), San Francisco, or remote
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who can assist in the localization of our Japanese content by editing subtitle scripts and other materials.

Responsibilities
  • Edit, typeset, and/or QC anime and live-action titles (both catalog and simulcast
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 as an editor of published materials
  • Familiarity with Aegisub and .ssa subtitle format

Subtitle Timer (Japanese)

Part-Time (Contractor), San Francisco, or 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

Translator and Subtitler (Korean)

Part-Time (Contractor), San Francisco, or remote
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who can localize our Korean 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 manhwa to English
  • Translate web pages and other static text to Korean
Requirements
  • Fluency in Korean, 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, drama, and/or manhwa a big plus

Subtitle Script Editor (Korean)

Part-Time (Contractor), San Francisco, or remote
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who can assist in the localization of our Korean content by editing subtitle scripts and other materials.

Responsibilities
  • Edit, typeset, and/or QC anime and live-action titles (both catalog and simulcast)
Requirements
  • Familiarity with Korean language
  • Fluency in English, both writing and speaking
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work with aggressive deadlines for simulcasts
  • Previous experience as an editor of published materials
  • Familiarity with Aegisub and .ssa subtitle format

Subtitle Timer (Korean)

Part-Time (Contractor), San Francisco, or remote
We are looking for highly-motivated individuals who can assist in the localization of our Korean 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 Korean 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

Part-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 Diplomat

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

Last Updated: April 18, 2013