Staff Visual Product Designer

5 Months ago • 12 Years + • Product Design • $204,960 PA - $256,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Visual Product Designer at Crunchyroll, you'll lead a visual refresh and evolution of the Crunchyroll app experience across mobile, web, and TV. Collaborating with researchers, product management, and engineers, you'll define and execute projects from concept to production, ensuring user goals are met. You'll handle design reviews, provide constructive feedback, and create elegant, engaging, and functional user experiences. A deep understanding of the anime industry, competitors, and user empathy is crucial. The role reports to the Director, Product Design and requires 12+ years of experience.
Must have:
  • 12+ years visual design experience
  • Strong visual capabilities & diverse styles
  • Brand & identity work experience
  • Figma & Adobe Creative Cloud proficiency
  • User-centered approach & empathy
  • Agile development environment experience
  • Team collaboration skills
  • UI visual design language creation
Good to have:
  • Strong illustration skills
  • UI design for TV devices
  • Streaming/entertainment industry experience
  • Prototyping experience
  • Anime fandom understanding
Perks:
  • Competitive salary & performance bonus
  • Flexible time off
  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • HSA, FSA, 401k plan with employer match
  • Commuter benefit
  • New parent support
  • Pet insurance

Job Details

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

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, Culver City, Dallas, or New York.

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 

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.
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$204,960$256,200 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.

  • 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.

Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs

Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights: https://tbcdn.talentbrew.com/company/22978/v1_0/docs/spe-jobs-privacy-policy-update-for-crpa-dec-21-22.pdf

Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.

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About The Company

Crunchyroll connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories with the content and experiences they love. In addition to free ad-supported and subscription premium content, Crunchyroll serves the anime community across events, theatrical, games, consumer products, collectibles and manga publishing.


Anime fans have access to one of the largest collections of licensed anime through Crunchyroll and translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast.

The Crunchyroll app is available on over 15 platforms, including all gaming consoles.

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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