Staff Technical Product Manager

About Crunchyroll, LLC 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.

Crunchyroll, LLC

streaming videoanimee-commercemangatheatricaland games

C

crunchyroll.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Entertainment Providers

Los Angeles, California

Privately Held

323k LinkedIn followers

Raised $26.8M

• Own one or more enterprise systems end to end: roadmap, backlog and priority, requirements, and the health of the system over its full lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional business partners to translate operational goals into functional, data, API, and platform requirements that engineering teams can build against.
• Serve as the single accountable owner for how your systems behave in production. You hold system knowledge organization depends on, decide what a problem means for the roadmap, and determine when a change requires Engineering.
• Maintain first-hand technical depth across your systems so that you can analyze data, investigate issues independently, identify recurring operational patterns, and translate system diagnostics into roadmap priorities.
• Understand software partner roadmaps, identify feature needs, handle vendor issues, and align external updates with internal plans.
• Evaluate product impact and drive continuous optimization by tracking usage adoption, platform health metrics, support ticket trends, and core business outcomes to justify future roadmap expansion.

Required

• 15+ years of relevant experience, including significant experience in technical product management, enterprise systems or technology product ownership, with at least 3 years at senior or principal scope.
• Demonstrated experience owning the roadmap and full lifecycle of complex enterprise systems, including upgrades, vendor changes and adoption, not only launches.
• Strong technical fluency across APIs, integrations, data, cloud platforms and enterprise applications, and the ability to write requirements engineers can execute against.
• Comfortable working directly with data and systems: SQL or equivalent, reading logs, reproducing and diagnosing issues.
• Experience making prioritization and product decisions across multiple stakeholders, dependencies and competing business needs, and holding the line between what the system must do and how it is built.
• Demonstrated hands-on use of AI-assisted tools in product work, with the ability and willingness to incorporate new capabilities into requirements, analysis, documentation and day-to-day productivity.
• Experience as the accountable owner of a system and the single point of contact for the teams that use it, including diagnosing issues to the point where it is clear whether an engineering change is needed.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and technical teams across a globally distributed organization without relying on formal authority.

Preferred

• Experience with compliance-sensitive or audit-controlled systems.
• Experience with large-scale integrations, integration platforms or data workflows.
• Experience in media, entertainment or streaming.
• Prior experience in engineering, systems analysis, platform administration or another hands-on technical discipline.
• 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

• Support program for new parents
• Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
• The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
• Pay Transparency - Los Angeles, CA
• $194,700—$243,400 USD