About Crunchyroll

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

We are looking for an experienced Principal Technical Program Manager with experience working with technical teams, coordinating information, and solving problems.

You will report into the Program Management organization and will work with Enterprise Technology, in addition to other teams across the business, to support important projects.

A day in the life of a Principal Technical Program Manager, Enterprise Technology:

• Organize, plan, and track ongoing technical projects and important projects for the Enterprise Technology team
• Lead meetings, track next actions, and follow up on action items
• Build partnerships across technical and business communities, including product managers, engineers, and other team members
• Be the liaison with relevant business groups to facilitate planning and collaboration between teams, align on goals, identify dependencies, mitigate risks, and communicate regular updates to all team members
• Balance 2-3 large programs related to streaming content, media assets, metadata and be able to switch context across programs
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies (Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Daily standup, Retrospectives, and Demos) where applicable
• Demonstrate an understanding of the business and its structure and tools, and how projects positively affect the business
• Establish best practices and repeatable processes to increase efficiency for teams together with the larger Program Management Organization

About You:

• 7+ years experience as a Technical Project or Program Manager within software development teams
• Prior experience managing projects related to media asset management, content and metadata workflow, or other enterprise technologies
• Prior experience in or managing projects related to streaming or entertainment industry
• Experience working with globally-distributed teams
• Knowledge of main concepts and standard processes for technical program management
• You are inquisitive, organized, and has a desire for continued self-improvement and development of new skills
• Knowledge of SDLC processes, with experience in both Agile and waterfall methodologies, and knowing when to apply each
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence

About the Team

The Enterprise Technology department is a team of enthusiasts who dedicate their time to building reliable and scalable solutions to help build, run, and transform enterprise applications. We promote engineering practices and use innovative technologies and cloud-based microservice architecture, which allow Crunchyroll enterprise teams to integrate seamlessly and achieve their goals.

The Program Management organization is a distributed team responsible for coordinating projects for the Crunchyroll streaming service. We standardize Agile methodologies for our organization, promote process improvements, and lead cross-team communications.

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!

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About our Values

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.

• Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.

• 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.

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