Associate Brand 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

The Associate Brand Manager plays a key role in enabling brands and licensors to thrive in our streaming and other omni-channel experiences. You will be an important partner between our licensors and our teams to drive and enable marketing collaborations and events.

• Know your assigned brands thoroughly to ensure strong marketing collaborations that resonate with the brand.
• Be the key point of contact for the brand's licensor for requests. Provide periodic updates for new and existing brands to each partner. Proactively update changes to exploitation strategy and rationale behind the change.
• Oversee the exploitation and use of the brand's likeness by coordinating internal approvals and external approvals with Licensors.
• Coordinate marketing promotions for respective Licensors and their associated talent at events/conventions.
• Pull and compile viewership data and other reporting metrics for content partners on both a regular and ad-hoc basis
• Work with other departments to obtain promotional data for monthly reports
• Support the Brand Management team with various administrative and operational tasks and daily operations

As an Associate Brand Manager, you will report to the Senior Brand Manager.

We are considering applicants local to our Los Angeles location.

About You

We get excited about candidates, like you, because you...

• Have a Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of work experience and 1+ years of partnership management and cross-functional department experience
• Have strong time management skills with the ability to manage your deliverables without intervention
• Understand working with partners from different cultural backgrounds, particularly Japanese business culture
• Like to learn new things and are open to taking on new challenges and solving tasks outside of your comfort zone
• Are proficient in either Mac or PC and have experience using content delivery software (Aspera, SFTP) and CMS backend systems a plus
• A plus if you are fluent in Japanese and can communicate effectively with Japanese-speaking partners.

About the Team

Your love for anime, and pop culture pushes you to thrive in a fast-paced environment and be an excellent teammate. The Brand Management team expects that our streaming and other omni-channels enjoy healthy growth to scale and engage, are attractive to licensors and their representatives, are credible with audiences, and set the pace for the industry. The position requires strong partnership and collaboration with our creators/licensors in Japan, and global teams in marketing, communications, content, business development, and product.

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.

• 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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