WE HELP EVERYONE BELONG. IT’S OUR PURPOSE.
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!
About the role
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.
We are considering applicants for the location(s) of San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Dallas.
About You
We get excited about candidates, like you, because...
- 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
Pluses:
- Strong illustration capabilities
- Experience designing UI for TV devices
- Experience working in streaming or entertainment industry
- Experience with prototyping
About the Team
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.
Why you will love working at Crunchyroll
In 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!
#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid
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
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Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
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Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
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Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
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Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
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.
Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs
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