Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.
Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!
We're looking for a Senior Manager, Executive Initiatives to help drive the Executive Office's highest-priority work and make sure Crunchyroll's biggest leadership moments are thoughtful, focused, and well executed.
Reporting to the VP, Executive Office across strategic projects, executive decision-making, and company-wide leadership programs. You'll help teams sharpen the thinking and recommendations they bring to the President, turn complex topics into clear executive narratives, and take on ambiguous work that needs structure and a path forward. You'll also roll up your sleeves to plan and execute key leadership events and forums, from SMT offsites and VP+ Summits to our company-wide Hackathon.
Core Areas of Responsibility- Review strategies and recommendations before they reach the President, pressure-testing the thinking, identifying gaps, and helping teams get to a clear point of view
- Take on strategic projects and ambiguous business problems, bringing structure, analysis, and recommendations
- Build executive presentations, briefings, and decision materials that turn complex topics into clear narratives
- Help ensure the President's most important meetings are focused on the right questions, decisions, and outcomes
- Own the hands-on planning and execution of SMT offsites, VP+ Summits and meetings, the company-wide Hackathon, employee roundtables, and other leadership events
- Turn Executive Office priorities into thoughtful agendas and programming that make the best use of leadership time
- Keep key decisions and commitments moving after executive discussions
We are considering applicants available to work a hybrid schedule, with three days each week onsite at our Dallas office.
About YouWe get excited about candidates like you because:
- 8+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy, Chief of Staff, business transformation, or similar roles that require strong problem-solving and business judgment
- Experience working closely with senior executives on complex business questions, recommendations, and decisions
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly make sense of an ambiguous problem and develop a clear point of view
- Excellent written and visual communication skills, with experience creating presentations, briefings, and recommendations for senior leaders
- Comfortable moving between strategic work and hands-on execution, including planning high-visibility leadership meetings, offsites, or events
- Strong influencing skills and the ability to drive work across teams without direct authority
- High attention to detail, discretion, and good judgment in a fast-moving executive environment
- Experience working across global teams or corporate partners is a plus
- Strong interest in AI, emerging technology, and how they are changing business and consumer behavior
- MBA or equivalent experience preferred
The Executive Office enables enterprise alignment, executive execution, and strategic acceleration, working to keep Crunchyroll's highest-priority work moving with clarity and speed.
Why you will love working at CrunchyrollIn addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
- 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!
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We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value
Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.
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Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy, Chief of Staff, business transformation, or similar problem-solving and business judgment roles
- Experience working closely with senior executives on complex business questions, recommendations, and decisions
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
- Ability to make sense of ambiguous problems and develop clear points of view
- Excellent written and visual communication skills
- Experience creating presentations, briefings, and recommendations for senior leaders
- Experience planning high-visibility leadership meetings, offsites, or events
- Strong influencing skills and ability to drive work across teams without direct authority
- High attention to detail, discretion, and sound judgment
- Strong interest in AI, emerging technology, and changing business and consumer behavior
- Experience working across global teams or corporate partners
- MBA or equivalent experience
Crunchyroll Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Crunchyroll and has not been reviewed or approved by Crunchyroll.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with multiple plan options plus mental-health/EAP resources, and some plans are described as having low premiums or even fully covered options.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is presented as flexible or unlimited and is augmented by additional company holidays such as summer Fridays and a year-end shutdown.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with a company match that is noted as meaningful and in some cases matched per paycheck.
Crunchyroll Insights
What We Do
At Crunchyroll, we deliver what anime fans love—anytime, anywhere. With the world’s largest anime streaming library, we connect fans to the stories, characters, and creators they love. But Crunchyroll is more than just a destination to watch anime—it's a global ecosystem where anime lives and breathes beyond the screen. From streaming and theatrical releases to merch, games, news, events, and music, we offer fans immersive experiences that celebrate anime culture in all its forms. Headquartered in the U.S. with teams and reach across the globe, Crunchyroll is an independently operated joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex of Japan. This unique partnership gives us the power to scale globally while staying rooted in anime’s cultural origins, ensuring authenticity and access for fans everywhere. We believe anime is more than entertainment—it’s a way of life. And we’re here to champion that passion every day.
Why Work With Us
We take the People Experience seriously here at Crunchyroll. Join a diverse team of talented, ambitious people who treat each other well and believe that how we win is just as important as winning.
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