Director, AI Enablement
Crunchyroll, LLC•Los Angeles, CA
•$192,000 - $240,000•Hybrid
About The Position
Crunchyroll is seeking a Director of AI Enablement to lead the company's enterprise-wide AI Enablement function. This role focuses on accelerating AI adoption by working directly with teams to understand current workflows, identify opportunities for AI and agentic improvements, and develop practical solutions. The Director will own the AI Enablement agenda, lead a lean team, collaborate with various departments, and leverage external AI expertise. The ultimate goal is to embed AI into the company's operational fabric.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience, starting in engineering, computer science, software development, or a similar technical field before moving into strategy, management consulting, business transformation, or AI enablement
- Proven experience leading enterprise AI enablement or AI transformation across multiple teams or functions
- Track record of redesigning multiple complex, manual workflows using AI, agents, and automation, with measurable business impact
- Strong ability to understand how a team works today, identify where AI can create value, and define a better way of working
- Technical fluency in GenAI, AI agents, automation, APIs, data, and enterprise technology, without needing to be the person who builds the solution
- Experience translating business needs into clear AI use cases and workflow designs that Engineering, ML, Data, or other technical teams can build and scale
- Strong judgment about when to use existing AI tools, agents, automation, or more complex technical solutions
- Experience setting AI priorities and taking initiatives from opportunity identification through implementation, adoption, and results
- Strong executive communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work across business and technical teams
- Experience leading small, high-performing teams
Nice To Haves
- MBA or other advanced business degree preferred, but not required
Responsibilities
- Own Crunchyroll's enterprise-wide AI Enablement strategy, roadmap, priorities, and operating model
- Work directly with teams across Crunchyroll to understand their workflows, identify high-value AI opportunities, and redesign how work gets done using AI, agents, and automation
- Translate business problems into clear AI use cases and workflows, moving opportunities from discovery to prototype, implementation, and adoption
- Help teams determine where AI can create meaningful value, including when to use simple AI tools, agentic workflows, automation, or deeper technical solutions
- Partner with Engineering, Enterprise Technology, Data & Insights, IT, and other technical teams to move solutions from concept into scalable, secure, and production-ready applications
- Own the company-wide AI learning and capability-building agenda, ensuring teams have the right programs, resources, experiences, and expertise to build practical AI fluency and apply it to their work
- Identify, screen, and manage external AI experts, vendors, and partners who can accelerate capability-building, workflow redesign, and solution delivery
- Build repeatable approaches, playbooks, and patterns that allow successful AI use cases and workflows to scale across functions
- Establish the milestones, metrics, and governance for AI adoption and report progress through the Executive Office's existing operating cadence
- Lead and develop a lean, high-performing AI Enablement team, setting priorities and concentrating resources on the highest-impact opportunities
- Build networks and communities of practice across the company that help AI expertise and successful ways of working spread beyond the central team
- Stay close to developments across AI, agentic systems, tools, and platforms, and translate what matters into practical opportunities for Crunchyroll
Benefits
- Great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies
- 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
- Some of our offices are pet friendly!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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