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!
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.
About the roleAs a Game Publishing Producer, you will support the launch and publishing of our subscription-based mobile game offerings in our Game Vault. You will work with multiple departments internally and external developers to guide workback schedules, mitigate risk, and help ensure a smooth and scalable games operations from start to finish.
You will be a critical liaison between the production, marketing, product, and analytics teams. You will oversee simultaneous releases across multiple platforms and ensure that all teams are on the same page.
This role is ideal for a detail-driven operator who is passionate about games, anime, and bringing engaging experiences to life.
Core Areas of Responsibility- Oversee our game publishing from start to finish, including developer onboarding, milestone management, game submissions, and store page submissions.
- Work with QA and Platform Ops teams to ensure builds meet quality, technical, and compliance requirements, including our Crunchyroll Login integrations.
- Participate in carrying out game launches, content updates, and ongoing feature deployments across multiple titles and platforms.
- Be the operational contact for external developers, ensuring adherence to schedules through the enforcement of milestone approval or disapproval following established contracts or internal processes.
- Identify risks early and often, and remove roadblocks and performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate across marketing, brand, platform, and customer experience teams to prepare for releases and ensure alignment throughout a game's lifecycle.
- Familiarize yourself by playing games that you produce and participating in our curation process by playing and assessing future titles for mobile platforms.
- Coordinate end-to-end localization workflows, ensuring all content is high-quality, IP-consistent, and delivered on time for global audiences.
- Communicate Japanese and English localization and technical needs to vendors and our teams, maintaining an organized feedback loop between all partners.
In the role of Game Publishing Producer, you will report to the VP, Games Production.
We are considering applicants for the location of Tokyo, Japan.
About YouWe get excited about candidates, like you, because...
- 5+ years of games industry experience, including mobile, PC, and console platforms
- 4+ years of publishing and production experience in games
- Experience managing end-to-end production workflows autonomously
- Experience balancing publisher needs with production realities, and excel at the intersection of creative, technical, and business goals
- Native to Business-level Japanese and English skills
- Experience driving alignment between external development partners and multiple departments internally through nuanced communications
- Experience with project management
- Excel at communication and documentation, and can create clarity and accountability across multiple departmental teams by following up
- Understand the anime fandom and what makes anime-inspired gaming experiences resonate with audiences
- Experience providing process efficiencies through optimization
- Experience with store page optimization on App Store and Google Play
The Crunchyroll Games team is bringing the best of anime gaming to Crunchyroll's audience on multiple platforms. We work with a variety of global and domestic partners to launch games to over 100+ countries, and bring more fans into the anime gaming ecosystem. We are composed of anime enthusiasts, gaming creation experts, and the latest technologists. We are collaborative and partner with multiple teams to ensure success in a fast-growing market.
Why you will love working at CrunchyrollIn addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
- Competitive salary
- Social Health Insurances, 401k, and Commuter benefits
- Meal & Gym Allowances
- Fun, passionate and skilled co-workers
- Weekly Luncheon & Quarterly Outing Trip
- Parental Leave
- 15 Days of PTO, annually, with increases based on years of service. 5 sick days annually, 9 National paid holidays, Summer Mondays, and Winter Break
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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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