Enterprise Strategy & Initiatives Manager

About Crunchyroll

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’re looking for a high-potential strategic partner to senior leadership to support enterprise priorities at Crunchyroll. As Enterprise Strategy & Initiatives Manager in the Office of the President, you’ll help structure key decisions, support company-wide planning, and drive execution on high-impact initiatives.

You’ll report to the Director of Enterprise Strategy & Initiatives, and work closely with the Chief of Staff and senior leaders across the company, ensuring priorities are clear, decisions are well-informed, and work moves forward.

Core Areas of Responsibility

• Support company-wide strategic planning and key enterprise initiatives
• Structure complex problems into clear analyses, recommendations, and action plans
• Build high-quality presentations, analyses, and briefing materials for senior leadership
• Support leadership forums (SMT, offsites, executive reviews), ensuring materials, discussions, and outputs are clear and actionable
• Drive follow-through on key priorities by tracking decisions, actions, and owners
• Support cross-functional initiatives by structuring workplans, identifying risks, and driving resolution
• Help unblock workstreams and escalate issues to keep initiatives on track
• Support high-visibility company programming (e.g., leadership meetings, VP+ forums)
• Conduct research and contribute to recommendations that inform leadership decisions

We are considering applicants available to work a hybrid schedule, with three days each week onsite at our Los Angeles office.

About You

We get excited about candidates like you because:

• 5+ years of experience, including management consulting or corporate strategy, with additional experience in a tech, media, or consumer business
• Experience in subscription, SVOD/streaming, or direct-to-consumer business models
• MBA or advanced degree, or equivalent experience
• Proven ability to structure ambiguous business problems and develop clear, actionable strategies
• Experience supporting senior executives and contributing to high-stakes strategic decisions
• Strong analytical skills, including building business cases and financial/operational models (Excel/Sheets)
• Experience developing executive-ready presentations and decision materials
• Track record of driving cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders to deliver outcomes
• Sound judgment and discretion in high-visibility or sensitive situations

About the Team

The Enterprise Strategy & Initiatives team extends the capacity of the President and drives Crunchyroll’s highest-priority work. We are a small, high-impact group that operates across strategy and execution to solve critical problems, align leaders, and move the business forward with speed and clarity.

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 

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$122,000—$150,000 USD

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.

• 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 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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