Director, Enterprise Strategy

Crunchyroll, LLC • Los Angeles, CA

1d • $196,000 - $240,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Enterprise Strategy will help shape Crunchyroll’s long-term direction, priorities, and competitive approach. Reporting to the VP of Strategy, this role leads Enterprise Strategy and Strategy Messaging: defining company-wide strategy, guiding alignment across business and functional strategies, and turning complex analysis into clear narratives that leaders and teams can act on.

The Director partners with senior leadership to make strategic choices, anticipate market shifts, and maintain Crunchyroll’s long-term position. The role develops enterprise strategy materials for the President, senior management team, and Sony/SPE, and supports the VP of Strategy as the primary representative for this work. It also establishes standards and practices for strategy communications, helps leaders communicate priorities, and assesses whether the organization understands and acts on the agreed strategy.

The Strategy team sits within the Chief Strategy Officer organization and owns enterprise, membership, and SVOD strategies, as well as fan, competitor, and market research. The position is based on a hybrid schedule with three days per week onsite at the Los Angeles office.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in management consulting or corporate strategy within media, technology, or consumer subscription businesses.
• Proven experience developing enterprise-level strategy, framing complex business decisions, and presenting recommendations to senior executives.
• Experience working in a global or multi-market business.
• Exceptional analytical, written, and visual communication skills, including the ability to turn complex analysis into clear, compelling narratives for audiences at all levels.
• Track record of setting strategic direction and aligning senior leaders across business lines without direct authority.
• Ability to move comfortably between rigorous strategic analysis and executive-level storytelling.
• Experience building or scaling a function, with the ability and interest to grow and lead a team.
• Strong judgment navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and evolving business strategies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and empathy to build relationships and influence across teams.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
• Experience operating within a parent-company structure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Crunchyroll’s company-wide strategy, priorities, and core beliefs with the President and Executive Office, testing assumptions as markets evolve.
• Set strategic direction and guardrails for Membership, SVOD, and functional strategies, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities.
• Identify enterprise-level opportunities, choices, and tradeoffs, including where to play and how to win, and frame recommendations for senior leadership decisions.
• Assess anime and SVOD markets, competitive trends, and industry innovation to understand Crunchyroll’s long-term position and the durability or risks of its advantages.
• Build scenarios around industry consolidation, competition, rising costs, and changing consumer demand, partnering with Research & Insights to ground strategy in evidence.
• Develop enterprise strategy materials for the President, senior management team, and Sony/SPE, supporting the VP of Strategy as the primary representative for this work.
• Turn strategy, research, and complex analysis into clear, compelling presentations and narratives for internal audiences, retaining ownership of findings and their communication.
• Set standards for strategy presentations, documents, and memos, and define how, when, and with whom the strategy function communicates while balancing these needs with strategy development.
• Communicate the agreed strategy across the organization to guide planning and budgeting, and create tools that help teams understand and apply it between updates.
• Equip leaders to communicate strategic priorities to their teams, assess whether the strategy is understood and acted on, and address gaps.
• Build or scale the strategy function and grow and lead a team.

Benefits

• Compensation package including salary and potential performance bonus, paid annually.
• Flexible time-off policies.
• Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) program.
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA).
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Employer-paid commuter benefit.
• Support program for new parents.
• Pet insurance; some offices are pet friendly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed